Skills in Neighbourhood Work

Abstract

This paper explores the usefulness of the idea of process in neighbourhood work for the practitioner. Four ‘traditions’ of process are identified, from which the practitioner can choose in order to conceptualise his work. Each stage of the neighbourhood work process can suggest the tasks that need to be carried out and the skills, knowledge and resources required. (A form of this paper will be distributed at the 21st International Congress of Schools of Social Work, August 23–27, 1982, Sussex University, Brighton, United Kingdom.)