Research Catalog

Title

Not just play : summer camp and the profession of social work / Meryl Nadel, Susan Scher.

Author

Nadel, Meryl, 1947-

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Scher, Susan, 1942-

Description

xx, 264 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This book focuses on the relationship between social work and the summer camp movement. Is camp just play or more? This work responds with a comprehensive treatment of this underappreciated field of practice. In addition to updating their knowledge, social workers, students, and camp professionals will benefit froem the book’s exploration of many perspectives on this subject. The text features four sections. An introduction to underlying concepts is followed by a historical perspective on the profession’s significant involvement in the development of nonprofit camps. The third section examines ways in which social workers contribute to camps: providing skilled practitioners for a range of key roles, serving as venues for research and recruitment to the profession, and providing a milieu for growth through group membership. The concluding section explores the myriad of opportunities offered by today’s camps for social workers and social work students. Not Just Play offers several distinctive and unique features. Although scholarly research is a hallmark of the book, case vignettes are incorporated into many chapters. All comprise either first-person contributions or use primary source material. In addition, numerous quotations gathered from interviews and online questionnaires are incorporated into the text, many from well-known social workers citing the impact of their camp involvement.

Subject

• Social service
• Camps > Social aspects
• Ferienlager
• Sozialberuf

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Natural environment as refuge, nurturer, catalyst -- Resilience and the strengths perspective in action -- Community, group, group work -- Social work and summer camp in historical perspective -- The beginnings of the summer camp movement -- From fresh air to summer camp : social work enters the picture -- Growth and development of social work camps : 1920s-1940s -- Expansive growth, changing times : 1950s-1970s -- The therapeutic camp : trends in camps for children with social-emotional challenges -- The group experience in camping : observations from Schwartz and Shulman / William Schwartz and Lawrence Shulman -- Camps and the social work profession -- Roles for social workers -- Recruitment to the profession -- Social work researchers go to camp / Dana R. Dillard, Stacey R. Kolomer, and Katharine Hanavan -- Group work orientation in the contemporary summer camp -- Social work and camps today -- Camps for many populations -- Social work students at camp : field placements and service learning at summer camp -- Opportunities and issues -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780190496548
• 0190496541
• 9780190496555
• 019049655X
• 9780190496562
• 0190496568
• 9780190496579
• 0190496576

LCCN

2018060243

OCLC

• on1081340124
• 1081340124
• SCSB-9448329

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library