Modern Applications of Social Work Series
From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements
1st Edition
By Vicky Albert
January 31, 1994
This book addresses the factors that explain the child welfare service careers of children, and the goals of permanency planning to be met for children entering foster care after initial abuse. It focuses on common child placements along the child welfare path....
Models for Change in Social Group Work
1st Edition
By Marian Fatout
December 31, 1992
Intended for beginning students as was as for practitioners, this volume shows how to make maximum use of the various models available for social group work. Dr. Fatout explores and delineates the “mainstream model,” devotes separate and incisive sections to notable specific approaches, and offers ...
Social Work Case Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Betsy Vourlekis, Roberta R. Greene
December 31, 1992
This book is based on the assumption that when key elements are in place, the direct practice of case management belongs within the spectrum of methods for and approaches to helping clients. The book provides an in-depth examination of the functions and skills of social work case management....
Keeping Families Together: The Homebuilders Model
1st Edition
By Charlotte Booth
December 31, 1991
When a family's problems become so severe that traditional community resources are unable to help them effectively, caseworkers are usually advised to place children outside the home. Family preservation services such as Homebuilders are designed to give caseworkers and families another option: ...
Families and Health Care: Psychosocial Practice
1st Edition
By Kathleen Ell
December 31, 1990
This book offers an antidote to the medicalization of health care and observes the special needs of socioeconomically disadvantaged persons with respect to health. It is useful for practitioners in the fields of mental health, family and child welfare, gerontology, and industrial practice....
Reaching High-Risk Families: Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services - Modern Applications of Social Work
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Tracy
December 31, 1990
Focusing on a program ("Homebuilders") that has attracted national attention, this book develops implications for family-centered curricula in such areas as social policy, direct practice, program design/management, practice research, theory and prevention....
Special Children, Special Risks: The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
1st Edition
Edited
By James Garbarino
December 31, 1987
How does one investigate a child maltreatment case when the victim is blind, mute, deaf, mentally retarded, or confined to an institution? Special Children, Special Risks presents analysis, recommendations, and related research from social work, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and education ...