O'Collins, Maev 1993

Social Development in Papua New Guinea 1972-1990:
Searching for Solutions in a Changing World

Contents Title pages i Introduction 1 Part 1: Social Development Planning 13 Part 2: Community-based Social Work Education 77 Part 3: Law, Order and Justice 133 Part 4: Social Aspects of Health Needs and Services 185 Part 5: Women and Youth 227 References & 251 Index

Detailed table of contents:

Introduction

• Social welfare priorities in developing countries, with special reference to Papua New Guinea (1973)

Part 1: Social Development Planning

• Community use of government and non-government services: some thoughts and observations on decentralization (1974)
• Local level development: Whose vision? Whose reality? (1978)
• Government extension services and smallholder agriculture: looking beyond 1982 to the way ahead (1982)
• Social development planning at the local/regional level: Fiji, Papua New guinea, and smaller nations in the South Pacific (1984)
• Gift-giving and its consequences: the effects of international aid on social development policies and programmes (19840
• Small is still beautiful: social development and the Eight-Point Plan (1985)

Part 2: Community-based Social Work Education

• Introducing social work education at the University of Papua New Guinea (1972)
• What is happening to my people? Community research by students at the University of Papua New Guinea (1977)
• Community education in Papua New Guinea: towards cultural reintegration (1979)
• Education and reciprocity: sharing and exchange between community and classroom (1980)
• Community-based practice: preparation for the return home (1987)

Part 3: Law, Order and Justice

• Social welfare and the law: protecting or controlling the community? (1975)
• Social justice and neo-colonialism: implications for education and research at the University of Papua New Guinea (1979)
• Juvenile delinquency: Melanesian responses to Western solutions (1980)
• Urban youth and folk devils: reflections on International Youth Year (1986)

Part 4: Social Aspects of Health Needs and Services

• Social supports and constraints in the provision of health services in Papua New Guinea (1973)
• Social welfare aspects of family planning programmes in rural areas of Papua New Guinea (1978)
• Changing to meet the needs of the new society (1977)
• Social work and mental health (1981)
• Social policies for disabled persons in Papua New Guinea (1987)

Part 5: Women and Youth

• Women and Youth: groups with special needs? (1990)

References and Index