Teaching Social Work Students to use Advocacy Skills Through the Mass Media

Abstract

Teaching social work students and practitioners to work effectively with the media is a valuable component of efforts to provide skills to influence the development of social policies and services addressed to vulnerable populations. The author focuses on mass media communications research, examples drawn from social work and other human service professions, and instructional activities in social work education to examine and illustrate how participation in the mass communication network can further the social policy goals of the social work profession.

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Edward Allan Brawley

A previous version of this article was presented at the 14th Annual Conference of the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Portland, OR, October 1996.