| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 611 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [557]-596) and index. |
| Contents |
Social work practice and its historical traditions -- The ecological perspective -- The life model of social work practice : an overview -- Assessment, practice monitoring, and practice evaluation -- Preparation : settings, modalities, methods, and skills -- Beginnings : settings, modalities, methods, and skills -- Helping individuals, families, and groups with stressful life transitions and traumatic events -- Helping individuals, families, and groups with environmental stressors -- Helping with dysfunctional family processes -- Helping with dysfunctional group processes -- Reducing interpersonal stress between worker and client -- Endings : settings, modalities, methods, and skills -- Influencing community and neighborhood life -- Influencing the practitioner's organization -- Influencing legislation, regulations, and electoral politics. |
| Subject |
Social case work.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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| Added Author |
Germain, Carel B.
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| ISBN |
9780231139984 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231139985 cloth alkaline paper |
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