Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- DETAILED CONTENTS -- Preface -- About the Authors -- CHAPTER 10 Social Work Practice with Communities: Engagement, Assessment, and Planning -- Familiar Perspectives and Some Alternatives on Community -- Forces Working against Connections within Communities -- Community Practice and Generalist Practice -- Definitions and Types of Community -- Spatial Community -- Social Communities -- Political Communities -- Community Functions -- Understanding a Community -- Community as a Social System -- Community as an Ecological System -- Communities as Centers of Power and Conflict -- Contemporary Perspectives for Community Practice -- Strengths, Empowerment, and Resiliency Perspectives -- Community in a Postmodern Perspective -- Engaging Communities [EPAS 6] -- Engagement of Communities -- Interprofessional Engagement -- Assessing Communities [EPAS 7] -- Comprehensive Community-Based Analysis -- Community Needs Assessment -- Using Evidence-Based Practice in Community Practice [EPAS 4] -- Community Needs Assessment Process -- Sources of Data for Community Needs Assessments -- Observation -- Service Statistics and Previous Studies -- Use of Census Data -- Administrative Data -- Other Data -- Mapped Data -- Interviews with Key Informants -- Focus Groups -- Community Forums -- Quick Guide 31: Guide to Key Informant Interviews -- Survey Data -- Quick Guide 32: Guide to Focus Groups -- Quick Guide 33: Guide to Community Forums -- Determining Your Assessment Approach -- Quick Guide 34: Sample Needs Assessment Survey Questions -- Assessing Specific Population Needs and Social Problems -- Asset Mapping -- Planning -- Skills for Community-Based Participatory Research [EPAS 4] -- Contemporary Trends Impacting Community Practice -- The World as a Community -- Global Interdependence: Implications for U.S. Practice