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This comprehensive text prepares social work students to play a key role within an interdisciplinary health care team: that of counselling clients who are taking medications used to treat common mental health conditions. This third edition has been fully revised to include new medications and reflect changes resulting from the publication of the ......
Becoming a Collaborative and Critically Competent Practitioner
This is designed to help social workers develop the ability to reappraise, question, and challenge the law to best serve their clients. It promotes the development of a more strategic relationship with the legal system - a partnership that can achieve more creative and just solutions to social problems.
The experiences of African Americans in urban communities are unique, and to be truly understood require an in-depth appreciation of the interface between micro- and macro-level factors. This text presents a framework for urban social work practice that encompasses a deep understanding of the challenges faced by this community.
Focuses on skill-building to facilitate positive social change With straightforward content enriched by practical and applicable learning experiences, this comprehensive text prepares social work students for careers in community organizing and macro practice. It focuses on building the social work skills required for organizing communities, ......
This book remains the leading textbook on social work with immigrants and refugees, and the only one to address legal and policy issues along with clinical skills. This revised edition has ben updated to reflect recent key policy changes that affect social work with immigrant and refugee populations.
Features practical applications covering the intersection of legal and social services. Using a foundational, institutional, and population-based approach illustrated with concrete examples, this innovative text will aid readers in the development of policy analysis skills, advocacy tools, and communication skills needed to work effectively with ......
An innovative text that introduces practical techniques social workers can use to incorporate social, economic, and environmental justice into their practice. The book emphasizes the role of justice in social work practice across the micro-macro spectrum.
The solution-focused approach to couples therapy is one that facilitates cooperation between partners in the creation of an agreed-upon future, rather than merely focusing on the problems that have come to define the relationship. At the core of this step-by-step guide to Solution-Focused Therapy is a real-life evolving case study, offering ......
Provides a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution-focused and narrative therapies. It harnesses the power of both models to offer brief, effective help to clients that builds on their strengths and abilities to envision and craft preferred outcomes.
