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Social Work and Social Welfare: an Introduction
- Authors:
- AMBROSINO Rosalie, et al
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 582p.
- Place of publication:
- Belmont, CA
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
Developed at the University of Texas, this undergraduate textbook describes the social welfare issues facing the United States and the world. It discusses the roles that social work professionals play in responding to those issues, the methods of intervention social workers use, and the populations they serve. Early in the book the authors introduce a systems/ecological framework to help students gain a perspective on how social work practitioners address social work issues at all levels of the environment. The book offers broad coverage of the historical, economic, political and cultural factors that surround social welfare issues. The writers go on to show how social work practitioners function within the system. Each chapter opens with a case vignette setting the scene and ends with a summary, discussion questions and links to internet resources. (This is the fourth edition; the book is currently in its sixth edition.)
Social work practice in mental health: contemporary roles, tasks, and techniques
- Editor:
- BENTLEY Kia
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 403p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
This book presents a "partnership" model which addresses the need immediately useful discipline specific content on the most important social work practice roles in mental health. The book articulates how roles often associated with working with a specific population (e.g. those who abuse substances, persons with severe mental illness, distressed marital couples) are quite relevant and useful in a much wider range of populations. Experts address social workers' many roles: crisis counselor, diagnostician, therapist, mediator, educator, skills trainer, case manager, mediation facilitator, consumer and family consultant, team collaborator, advocate, programme evaluator/ researcher, and administrator and policy analyst.
Evidence-based practice for the helping professions: a practical guide with integrated multimedia
- Author:
- GIBBS Leonard
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 292p.,bibliog.
This book argues that evidence based practice encompasses practice experience, a commitment to placing the concerns of the client first, and a determination to utilise the best current evidence to guide decision making. Contents include: definitions; motivations for applying best evidence to practice; posing specific questions; treatment effectiveness research; meta analysis; assessment of risk; collecting data in practice.
The skilled helper: a problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping
- Author:
- EGAN Gerard
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Edition:
- 7th
A guide to crisis intervention
- Author:
- KANEL Kristi
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 235p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Aimed mainly at counsellors. Includes sections on: what a crisis is; crisis intervention; ethical and professional issues; a multicultural perspective; the ABC model of crisis intervention; when crisis is a danger; the crisis of loss; substance abuse; AIDS; crisis of victimisation (including spouse and child abuse); and crises in young people, adults and older people.
Family practice: brief systems methods for social work
- Authors:
- FRANKLIN Cynthia, JORDAN Catheleen
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 461p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Focuses on work with families in the United States. Contains chapters on: time limited (brief) family practice models for social work practice; structural family therapy; strategic and Milan family therapy; behavioural and cognitive behavioural family therapy; solution focused brief family therapy; social construction and narrative family practice; psychoeducational family therapy; family preservation practice; rapid assessment in family practice; effective therapeutic approaches with ethnic families; family therapy with gay and lesbian clients; gender issues; the interface between family practice and family policy; and new directions in brief and systems family therapy.
The skilled helper: a problem-management approach to helping
- Author:
- EGAN Gerard
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 394p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Presents a problem management approach to the therapist client relationship. Goes step by step through the counselling process and offers a wide variety of counselling skills for many types of relationship and setting, including prison, hospital and private practice. Presents a solid foundation for trainee counsellors to form their own counselling orientation and to master practical strategies for facilitating client change.
The practice of social work
- Author:
- ZASTROW Charles
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 730p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Social work textbook from the United States.
Research methods for generalist social work
- Author:
- MARLOW Christine
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 349p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Demonstrates the connection between study of the research process and its actual applications in generalist social work. Focuses on the ways practitioners use research methods in everyday situations.
Introduction to social work and social welfare
- Author:
- ZASTROW Charles
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 687p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Student text book which uses a social problems approach to social welfare and social work in the United States. Includes chapters on: social work as a profession and career; poverty and public welfare; emotional problems and counselling; family services; sexuality; drug abuse; crime and juvenile delinquency; education and school social work; racism and equal rights; sexism; older people; medical social services; physical and mental disabilities; and social work practice.