Social Work for Child Poverty-Alleviation

This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand and clarify the function, intervention strategies and development direction of social work in child poverty-alleviation. It systematically presents the theoretical framework and practical path of social work in child poverty-alleviation. The book has three main focuses: firstly, it reviews the theoretical analysis framework of social work in child poverty-alleviation, such as social development perspective, social integration perspective and ecological systems theory at a macro-level, as well as life course theory and resilience theory at a
micro-level; secondly, it presents the general practice path of social work in child poverty-alleviation from the perspective of practice framework, intervention path, work procedures and specific methods, exploring the key points, difficulties, methods and techniques of social work intervention in child poverty-alleviation practices through local cases in China; thirdly, based on the international social work experience in child poverty-alleviation and combined with local practices in China, it clarifies the future direction and advantages of social work in child poverty-alleviation in China.