| Description |
xxiv, 408 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sheila H. Akabas. Pt. 1. Overview. A profession at the crossroads: occupational social work-present and future / Michael Lane Smith and Gary M. Gould -- Employee assistance programs: toward a comprehensive service model / Paul A. Kurzman -- Practice with unions: collaborating toward an empowerment model / Daniel J. Molloy and Paul A. Kurzman -- Work-site research: challenges and opportunities for social work / Bradley K. Googins. Pt. 2. The context of practice. Prevention: an organizing concept for workplace services / Sheila H. Akabas and Beth Grube Farrell -- Employee benefits: the role of social insurance and social services / Lawrence S. Root -- Serving workers through managed mental health care: the social work role / Adrienne Asch and Patricia Abelson -- Ethnic, cultural, and racial diversity in the workplace / Muriel Gray and Frederica Barrow -- Family and work: trends and prospects for dependent care / Jacquelyn McCroskey and Andrew Scharlach. Pt. 3. Direct services. Work: its use in assessment and intervention with clients in the workplace / Florence Wexler Vigilante -- Solution-focused brief workplace counseling / Maria DeOca Corwin -- Serving the substance abuser in the workplace / Meredith Hanson -- Managing disability in the workplace: a role for social workers / Sheila H. Akabas and Lauren B. Gates -- The older worker and service delivery at the workplace / Cynthia Stuen and Barbara Drahus Worden -- Military social work as occupational practice / Jesse J. Harris. Pt. 4. Management and policy initiatives. Women workers in high-risk public service: tokens under stress / Barbara Levy Simon and Sheila H. Akabas -- Stress in the workplace: a response from union member assistance programs / Lee Schore and Jerry Atkin -- Unemployment and underemployment: a policy and program-development perspective / Lawrence S. Root -- The emergence of external employee assistance programs / Kurt Spitzer and Alison Favorini -- An international perspective on the development of social work in the workplace / David Bargal -- Conclusions: a futurist view / Paul A. Kurzman. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Industrial welfare -- United States.
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Employee assistance programs -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Kurzman, Paul A.
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Akabas, Sheila H., 1931-
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| ISBN |
0871012286 |
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