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UNISA Department of Social Work Community work SCK3703 Module/course: SCK3703 Assignment: 1 Assignment number Due date: 27 June 2020 Number of pages: 16 including cover page Student name: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Student number: xxxxxxxxxxxx Address: xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx 2 Table of contents INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………………………...………….3 QUESTION 1 Discuss the concepts:” community work” and “community development”………..…...3 QUESTION 2 Identify and describe four types of communities………………………………………....3 QUESTION 3 Discuss the following theories 3.1 Ecological systems theory ………………………………………………………….....5 3.2 Strength-based perspective …………………………………………………………...6 3. 3 Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) …………………………………...7 3.4 Sustainable livelihoods approach …………………………………………………….8 QUESTION 4 Briefly discuss the following five practice models: Community development, social planning, community education, social marketing and social action ………………………………………………………..9 QUESTION 5 Briefly discuss five steps of the community work process CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………………….…15 REFERENCES …………………………………………………………………………….16 3 Introduction This assignment is based on community work .The assignment has four questions that provides the student an opportunity to describe community work as an intervention method in social work service delivery and an opportunity to describe and analyse the process of community work intervention. Also the different community work theories, approaches and models. Question 1 Discuss the concepts:” community work” and “community development”. Community work is the method of social work that consists of the various processes and helping acts of the social worker that is targeted at the community system, as well as its subsystems and certain external systems, with the purpose of bringing about required social change with the help of especially community development, social planning, community education, social marketing and social action as practice models (Weyers.2011: 28). Community development is the method, process, programme and strategy by means of which change agents, with or without the help of external systems: speed up the tempo at which a community develops, provide direction to the development process in order to realise objectives purposefully within the economic, psychosocial, biophysiological, technological, spiritual-cultural, political, environmental, educational and other spheres of life, make the goal attainment process as cost-effective, streamlined and sustainable as possible so that both human and environmental resources are used optimally and contribute to human growth and the unlocking of human potential by empowering community members to take responsibility for their own, as well as the whole system's development (Weyers.2011: 39). Question 2 Identify and describe four types of communities. 2.1 The 'contextual' community The ‘contextual community’ basically refers to the setting in which you operate and that would have a direct or indirect effect on your endeavours. It includes both the