Human Needs: Overview (2016)

Human need and related concepts such as basic needs have long been part of the implicit conceptual foundation for social work theory, practice, and research. However, while the published literature in social work has long stressed social justice, and has incorporated discussion of human rights, human need has long been both a neglected and contested concept. In recent years, the explicit use of human needs theory has begun to have a significant influence on the literature in social work. (Please scroll to this from Current 2023 to Previous 2016 and from that see the previous 2013 entry for entirely different content).