2013 · Review · English
Science-Based Prevention through Communities That Care: A Model of Social Work Practice for Public Health
Haggerty, K. P., & Shapiro, V. B.
Haggerty, K. P., & Shapiro, V. B. (2013). Science-Based Prevention through Communities That Care: A Model of Social Work Practice for Public Health. Social Work in Public Health, 28(3-4), 349–365. doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2013.774812
Summary
Practice-oriented article in Social Work in Public Health addressed to social workers, whose professional association had called for prevention to become central to alcohol and drug services. Haggerty and Shapiro set out a public-health orientation to substance-abuse prevention, review the science behind the risk and protective factor approach, describe CTC as a community practice model that puts that evidence to use, and show how the model reflects four principles of social work practice. The article adds no new data; its value is as a bridge between the prevention-science literature and a profession that in many European countries runs the municipal services a CTC coalition depends on. A good text to hand to social-work partners who ask what their role in the model is.