Rural social work in australia

Title: Rural social work in australia
Creator: Alston, Margaret
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1167
Publisher: NASW and Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2016
Description: This article examines the role of social workers in rural and remote areas of Australia. The uniqueness of Australia’s landscape, its vast distances, and sparse population base, create unique issues relating to service delivery in general and social work in particular. High levels of poverty, poorer health, lower socio-economic status, and an aging population base typify Australia’s remote areas. Despite these factors, inland regions of the country are subject to economic rationalist policies that make service access problematic. It is in these regions that rural and remote social workers practice. The article outlines the personal, practical, and professional challenges facing social workers and notes the unique opportunities available to workers who choose to live and work in these regions.
Subject: rural and remote social work; economic rationalism; challenges; Australia
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441817
Identifier: uon:41539
Identifier: ISBN:9780199975839
Language: eng

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