Anticipatory Social Work: Foresight Approaches and Tools for Social Imagining and Collective Praxis

Dealing with a rapidly changing world is the purview of all professions. Nowhere is this truer than in those professions dealing with well-being, social change, justice, and equity. What is the future of social work as a profession, and how should social work prepare for—and help to shape—what comes next?

In Anticipatory Social Work, Laura Burney Nissen asserts that social work faces a series of vital turning points for its own future including artificial intelligence and technology in our s...