Year: 1981
Type: article
Abstract: The current energy crisis appears to be presenting social work with a new breed of client as the profession moves into the decade of the 1980's. This new clientele - the boom town victim - may be an individual, a group, an entire community or even a geographical region. Accordingly, an effective response to these victims may well require the entire repetoire of social work's helping functions (e.g., clinical, research, community organization, social planning, social action, policy formulation). Since the energy crisis gives every indication of not only continuing, but intensifying, it behooves the social work profession to devote more attention to the social consequences and human costs of energy development. This paper will examine the magnitude of energy development; it will discuss the social consequences and human costs of such development; and it will suggest possible responses by the profession of social work.
Authors: Joseph Davenport, Judith Ann Davenport
Institutions: University of Wyoming, Western Michigan University
Language: English
Topic: Social Sciences and Policies
Subfield: General Social Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W204530411