Interdisciplinary Community Development

Social work, like most professions, is inherently interdisciplinary, but generally not self-consciously so. The same can be said of other professions involved in community development.

Alice K. Johnson Butterfield and Yossi Korazim-Korosy, eds., Interdisciplinary Community Development Binghamton NY: Haworth Press, 2007, discusses both how and why to pursue community development in an explicitly interdisciplinary fashion. It argues that experts trained in many fields need to work collaboratively with community members. They note that these experts rarely receive any training or encouragement to support interdisciplinary interactions.