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The 20 Steps series is designed specifically for today's fast-paced, need-it-yesterday business environment and for the thousands of workers who find themselves faced with new assignments, responsibilities, and requirements and too little time to learn what they must know. If you need to develop and hone your management skills, this book is for you.
147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups-Essentials of Web-Based Education
Author: Donald E. Hanna, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, and Simone Conceicao-Runlee
From experienced distance educators comes this comprehensive collection of strategies for teaching effectively online. Beginning with pre-instruction preparation and progressing through actual online teaching, "147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups" will help you feel more comfortable and competent heading into an online course, whether you're a new instructor or an experienced professor. The authors dispel popular myths in online education and anticipate the potential problems you might face teaching in the online medium.
Running a training session? Giving a speech? Heading a workshop? Making a presentation? Icebreakers come in handy in all these situations-and this is the largest and most imaginative collection you'll find anywhere! With the help of these playful, fun-filled games, exercises, and activities you'll be able to start every session, meeting, speech, or presentation with a burst of energy and fun.
A Place to Call Home: Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Foster Care
Steve Christian & Lisa Ekman Copyright: 2000
Approximately 547,000 children were in foster care at the end of March 1999. And the costs of caring for them have increased dramatically. But more than cost -- foster kids are in limbo.There has been an important policy shift regarding foster children with new emphasis on safety, a permanent home and the child's well-being. Read about these important developments in the new NCSL publication. 2000, 60 pages
This is a BOOK ON TAPE memoir read by Jaycee Dugard. In the summer of 1991 she was kidnapped and held prisoner for 18 years. This is her story in her own words.
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. Length: 28:30. Video 1-Expanding Your Cultural Awareness.
For entering students, the freshman experience can be overwhelming. In addition to adjusting to new academic and social demands, many students lack experience in living in a multicultural environment. Filmed at Pennsylvania State University and reviewed by African-American, Asian-American, Latino-American and other multicultural scholars for authenticity of language and accuracy of content, the A World of Diversity Videos will help students learn basic skills for interacting effectively with students from different cultural backgrounds.
This comprehensive handbook shows you how to design and conduct experiential programs in private and public sector organizations from beginning to end. Silberman has augmented the first edition with a wealth of new training exercises and updated case studies, along with information on emerging training technologies and substantiating the ROI of training.
This is a book for substance abuse and mental health professionals who work with clients who have alcohol or drug problems. It relates concepts from major theories of human development to the problem of addiction and shows how a developmental perspective can contribute to the understanding and treatment of alcoholism and drug abuse.
On the surface, our application of the strengths perspective to the field of addiction treatment marks a dramatic departure from the past. Our notion of reinforcing strengths in a self-directed program of harm reduction is seemingly a more extreme departure still. And yet the tone of this writing is intended to be conciliatory rather than adversarial; the focus is building upon rather than tearing down.
Dr. Richard Delaney addresses some of the toughest child anger behavior problems. There is no simple solution to anger, but this easy-to-view interactive program will help parents identify problems and think about "out-of-the-box" solutions.
This video dramatizes six techniques for dealing with hostility, resentment, manipulation, sexual harassment, non-performing co-workers, and conflicting job assignments. It shows how to resolve conflicts resulting from aggressive behavior, role confusion, stereotyping, and manipulation. Includes study guide.
Written to help the front line practitioner in assessing and managing allegations of sexual abuse cases with children from ages 18 months to 6 years old, this book provides concrete and easily understood information about basic child development, interview procedures, and case management theory.
Attachment is the deep and enduring connection established between a child and caregiver in the first years of life. It profoundly influences every component of the human condition: mind, body, emotions, relationships, and values. Disrupted attachment not only leads to emotional and social problems, but also results in biochemical consequences in the developing brain. Attachment, Trauma, and Healing examines the causes of attachment disorders and provides in-depth discussion of effective solutions, including attachment-focused assessment and diagnosis; specialized training and education for caregivers; treatment for children and caregivers that facilitates secure attachment; and early intervention and prevention programs for high-risk families.
Behavior Change in the Human Services, Fifth Edition continues to provide a systematic introduction and overview of behavioral and cognitive principles and their applications to a wide range of problems and situations encountered in the human service professions. Designed for students and practitioners, the book uses a unique problem-solving framework to demonstrate how behavior change principles can be applied to practice situations.
Behavior Change in the Human Services, Fifth Edition features a detailed and sequential organization that encourages readers to move progressively through material of increasing complexity and to conduct self-assessments of their knowledge. The Fifth Edition includes eight clinical case studies and many new and engaging examples that address issues such as substance abuse, child behavior problems, assertiveness, marital discord, and developing appropriate social behaviors. The expanded chapter on intervention techniques incorporates empirically tested behavioral and cognitive strategies for addressing clinical problems such as phobias, anxiety disorders, depression, and other behavioral disorders. Current developments and trends in the field are discussed, including the movement toward evidence-based practice.
This comprehensive yet accessible text also features figures, charts, and forms to demonstrate data collection and analysis. Any student pursuing a career in the helping professions, including social work, psychology, counseling, special education, nursing, and psychiatry, will find this book valuable.
After being sexually abused by the birth parents, Bobbie comes to live with foster parents. The new parents seem nice, but Bobbie has a lot of mixed feelings about the new situation. Bobbie knows that what the birth parents did was wrong, but still misses them and is confused about the future. This full-color workbook, developed for use with male and female children ages 5-10, may help an abused child begin to feel comfortable talking about sexual abuse issues with his or her foster parents. The text encourages children to write about or draw pictures of their feelings, and blank pages are provided throughout. To be used in conjunction with Bobbie's Story: A Guide for Foster Parents.
Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader, and Jennifer Kingston Bloom @1998
The founders of the first short-term self-injury treatment program in the country offer groundbreaking help for a dangerous and increasingly widespread syndrome.
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses to their own parents' murders, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, he tells their stories of trauma and transformation. Perry explains what happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress, and he reveals how today's innovative treatments are helping ease children's pain, allowing them to become healthy adults. This deeply informed and moving book dramatically demonstrates that only when we understand the science of the mind can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.
Caring Helper: Skills for Caregiving in Grief and Loss, The
The Caring Helper: Skills for Caregiving in Grief and Loss
The Caring Helper videotape and workbook program teaches helping and self-care skills to volunteer and professional caregivers working with people who face life-threatening illness, dying, and bereavement. Interviews with bereaved family members illustrate the concepts in Dr. Larson's talks on helping skills and the grieving process. Experienced helpers demonstrate support group exercises and discuss the rewards and challenges of caregiving. (30 minutes)
This book presents fifteen case descriptions of sexually abused children in treatment. The reader is invited into the treatment room to watch the process-often painful, always difficult-of helping these children overcome the traumas inflicted during their short lives.
This book is primarily intended for those who need a brief introduction to the child abuse and neglect field; this group includes students of psychology, psychiatry, counseling, social work, family therapy, nursing, sociology, education, criminology, and the law. This book also provides a review for those entering or already in the field.
When it comes to talking to a child about their suspected case of abuse, the greatest of precautions must be taken. The way the questions are asked, the time at which certain elements of conversation are introduced, even the location of the interview itself - all can make a difference as to how through, clear and concise the victim's account will be.
Child Abuse: The Investigative Interview helps counselors, attorneys, and child advocates find a way to interview youngsters in a manner that's as effective and sensitive as possible. A well-done interview is highlighted, as is one that highlights some of the most subtle-but critical-mistakes an interviewer can make.
How to handle the responsibility of protecting children from abuse is a common thread that runs through the subjects addressed in this book. The authors examine the following questions: Is Child Abuse a Serious Problem? What Causes Child Abuse? How Widespread Is Child Sexual Abuse? How Should the Legal System Respond to Child Abuse? How Can Child Abuse Be Reduced?
The intention of this book is to inform readers of the relationship between child abuse and various forms of child and adult psychopathology, both from a clinical and a developmental perspective.
This book describes child development and how it can be applied to practice with children. Beginning practitioner's often feel intrigued and perplexed by the behavior of children and wonder what is "normal". Developmental knowledge provides a framework for assessing where a child falls within normal expectations and where she or he does not.
This textbook presents concepts, policies, and practice in a broad field of family and child services. The text is designed for use in collaborative educational arrangements between state public child welfare agencies and school of social work. It is useful as a reliable reference for new personnel entering employment in family and child social agencies and as a tool for planned staffed development programs.
This newly revised and update edition of a widely adopted text continues to address a broad array of issues in supporting children and strengthening families. It includes key information about recent federal legislation such as TANF and AFSA, as well as policy-related outcomes research in child welfare.
Ideally, there is a close interaction between research and practice in the human services, and program planning is based on such interaction, particularly the findings of outcome research. This volume reviews the bodies of outcome research on child welfare programs from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, so that child welfare professionals can learn not only about programs and strategies that have been proven successful in their own country, but also successful programming and policies in other English-speaking countries of the world. The outcomes research included in this book covers traditional services (kinship care, family foster care, treatment foster care, residential group care, and adoption) and recent service initiatives (family preservation, family reunification, preparation for independent living, family group decision-making, shared family care, and wraparound services.
This book is a comprehensive study of the principal child welfare services. It begins by defining child welfare, placing it as a field of practice within social work, and presents a scheme for the categorization of child welfare problems in terms of role theory.
This text has been developed in response to the learning needs of both social work students and current child welfare social workers. The premise of the text is to present a fundamental model of social work practice that addresses both the issues of residual and universal types of intervention.
THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING explores how parents, by their example, influence their children's behavior and life choices. This documentary films four families who are raising teenagers, and captured candid, often disturbing situations which reveal the direct connection between parents' behavior and the ways their kids are mirroring or reacting to that behavior. Length: 60 minutes. VHS format.
This book is devoted to the topic of children of battered women. The book considers the devastating impact of family violence on children, the links between violence and spouse abuse on child development and clinical dysfunction, children's views of violence, and strategies for intervention and prevention.
The book begins by addressing the general issue of violence in clinical practice, providing an overview of relevant research conducted by the author and others. Findings are presented on the nature and scope of different kinds of client violence - property damage, threats, attempted assaults, and actual assaults - and risk factors for these behaviors are identified. Next, clinicians and students learn essential skills for conducting risk assessment; approaching, engaging, and intervening with violent clients; and managing situations where unexpected violence occurs. Coverage encompasses the full breadth of social work settings, including a special section on home visits. Also provided are guidelines for developing and implementing an agency safety plan. Througout, discussion questions and case analyses reinforce the topics discussed and help readers build key skills, individually or in groups. Useful appendices include a model syllabus for a course on violence risk assessment and treatment. Written in an accessible and user-friendly style, this authoritative resource belongs on the desks of social work practitioners, supervisors, educators, and students; agency administrators and policymakers; and other mental health, human service, and medical professionals who work with potentially violent or aggressive clients. As a text, it meets a vital need in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses and professional development seminars.
This extraordinarily readable and highly practical book walks the clinician through the process of conducting a sexual abuse evaluation, whose purpose is to figure out whether sexual abuse actually occurred and what needs to be done about it.
Clinically rich, empathic and warmly written, the second edition of this popular book lays the foundation for conducting the spontaneous, unstructured interview with the child. Peppered with anecdotes, practical tips, and colorful exchanges between child and therapist, this book brings alive and systematizes the art of the interview. It will bring both the beginning and advanced interviewer closer to understanding the very special world of the child.
Mental health and human service professionals are often called on to give evidence or expert testimony in a range of circumstances, including family law and child welfare trials, mental health hearings, malpractice lawsuits, criminal trials, government hearings, and private arbitration. Interacting with the legal system poses many potential challenges but adequate preparation and a basic understanding of legal processes and terminology can make the experience a more positive one. This volume provides practical information and proven guidelines to help clinicians from any background understand their role in legal proceedings and participate effectively ethically and with minimal stress.
Drawing from the vast firsthand experience of its author, this important volume provides an uncommonly useful resource for the wide range of mental health professionals who work with adolescents.
Conducting and Infant Mental Health Family Assessment
Conducting and Infant Mental Health Family Assessment
Discussion of the methods used to elicit material from families regarding the nature of their relationship with the baby and etiology of the breakdown in their bond with the baby. Vignettes of interviews with families are used to demonstrate how information is sometimes offered by way of parent-infant interaction, or by way of stories or behaviors that APPEAR unrelated to the questions at hand. Suggestions are offered about how to organize material for a report. The tape is intended principally for use in professional training. (Color, 58 minutes)
This video-based training program takes a candid, journalistic approach to the day-to-day realities of child sexual abuse casework. Realistic dramatizations and bold footage of actual social workers conducting investigations, making home and follow-up visits, and performing other responsibilities are used to underscore both the frustration and satisfaction to be found in child sexual abuse casework. Written, produced, and narrated by nationally-known television journalist Ellen Kingsley in conjunction with CWLA, this polished and professional two-part training series is comprised of three individual videotapes, which focus on the real-life issues, problems, and concerns faced by child welfare, social work, and child protection workers in handling child sexual abuse cases. They also explore those issues of case management unique to child sexual abuse--denial and resistance in counseling and meeting the special needs of sexually abused children and their families. Use with large or small training groups or even for individual viewing.
The purpose of this series is to present both sides of controversial issues in a given field, such as child welfare, sot hat readers are better informed about topics of concern. This book is for all those who are interested in the field of child welfare.
This book has three major focuses: (1) to present different perspectives on a number of current ethical and values issues related to social work; (2) to demonstrate the value of presenting different positions concerning an issue in a debate format; and (3) to demonstrate that controversy can be carried out in a constructive manner. It is for readers who wish to deepen their understanding of ethical, value, and obligations issues that arise in day-by-day practice by considering opposing viewpoints on these issues. It could be used as a text in a course on ethics in social work or as ancillary source of readings.
The Sixth Edition of Counseling Across Cultures contains various perspectives on counseling individuals from a substantial number of diverse cultural contexts.
This is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child-and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.
This best-selling book will help you gain the strategies, skills, and techniques that you'll need in crisis intervention situations. Featuring James' applied approach, Crisis Intervention Strategies presents specific advice for handling different crisis situations - in many cases providing the appropriate dialogue a helper might use. Where controversies exist, the author presents all sides of the issue.
The authors combine information from various disciplines such as education, medicine, psychology, child development, economics, sociology, and political science in a highly readable form. The multidisciplinary approach provides the basis for the analysis presented in the book.
The third edition of the text offers several substantial additions in response to the suggestions of instructors and students. First, I have added summaries and suggested activities to all chapters to enhance learning and interaction with the material. Strengths include: Reader friendly, practical applications of concepts, focus on the major minority groups in America from a counseling perspective.
This authoratative text covers the breadth of issues involved in working with immigrant and refugee children and families. Within an innovative framework, essential knowledge is presented to guide culturally competent practice with clients from over 14 immigrant groups whose numbers are growing in the United States today. Expert authors review the history of each group's migration to the United States and discuss key issues facing families, including cultural conflicts, trauma associated with refugee experiences and/or illegal status, and the effects of poverty and discrimination. Particular attention is given to ways that the practitioner can help families draw on culturally based resources for coping and resilience as they navigate the challenges of their new lives. Throughout, recommendations for strength-based assessment and intervention are brought to life in detailed case examples.
This text includes chapters pertaining to the interaction of culture and disability. A model on "Culture Brokering" provides a framework for addressing problems or conflicts that often arise between service providers and clients from differing cultures. Seven chapters discuss the cultural perspectives of China, Jamaica, Korea, Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Vietnam, focusing on how disability is understood in these cultures. Each of these chapters includes a discussion of the history of immigration to the United States, the role of the family and the community in rehabilitation, as well as recommendations for service providers on working with persons from each culture.
Designed for health and counseling professionals, this video teaches how to identify and help young people with depression or suicidal ideation. It uses role-played scenarios to demonstrate clinical skills in recognizing, assessing, and managing adolescent depression and suicidal behavior.
The authors have built a clinical social work model of developmental play therapy and concurrent parent work. This model reflects the biopsychosocial development of the child, developmental disturbances, and mental disorders, and the ways in which play in the context of the therapeutic alliance makes use of developmental processes to stimulate change and growth.
This is not a program ABOUT people with disabilities, it is about communicating with and relating to people. When you see someone who is paralyzed, unable to hear or speak, or unable to see, how do you react? Pity? Discomfort? Your reactions influence your ability to communicate.
This video has received has been a Telly Award Finalist, ITVA Carolina Silver Reels Award of Merit, and has received The Videographer Award of Excellence. This two-part educational video addresses the more common types of assaults on human service professionals. Developed in conjunction with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, it was designed with input from safety teams, direct-line workers and their supervisors. A 14-page discussion guide provides background information and suggested discussion questions. Part one, Disarming Violence, a 15-minute overview, discusses techniques for handling angry clients or aggressive clients and suggests procedures for making your office safe. Violence in the Field, an eight-minute video, covers how to assess potentially volatile situations and safely withdraw if necessary.
This empowering text details the importance of record keeping in today's litigious society. Mitchell offers practical guidelines on how to keep client records that are legally, clinically, and fiscally sound. By following the advice given in this timely book, professional counselors can help protect themselves from potential lawsuits, assist in court cases, speed third-party reimbursements, master electronic record keeping, and enhance the quality of care through efficient communication.
Help for the Adult Child who is also: food addicted, chemically dependent, physically disabled, a person of color, sexually abused, physically abused, an only child, gay or lesbian, or the child of two chemically dependent parents.
The purpose of the DSM-IV is to provide clear descriptions of diagnostic categories in order to enable clinicians and investigators to diagnose, communicate about, study, and treat people with various mental disorders.
An invaluable addition to the DSM-IV Library, DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis is a succinct reference to help ensure that you consider all the important diagnoses that need to be ruled out during a clinical evaluation. It is a great convenience for busy practitioners and a valuable overview for trainees. The Handbook provides
* The six crucial steps in differential diagnosis that must be considered for each and every patient * 27 decision trees that teach you how to go from the most common presenting symptoms to a final diagnosis * 62 differential diagnosis tables, each of which provides a head-to-head comparison of a disorder with its differential diagnostic contenders * A unique symptom index for DSM-IV-TR™ that lists in a convenient form those disorders that you should consider when formulating a differential diagnosis given a particular symptom in the patient's presentation
The information provided in the decision trees, the differential diagnosis tables, and the symptom index is rich with information, each format with its own strengths, depending on the needs of a particular clinical situation. By presenting the problem from a number of different perspectives, this Handbook should improve your skill in formulating a comprehensive differential diagnosis.
Now in its Third Edition, Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable advice for achieving managerial success. Ralph Brody dissects and diagnoses common workplace dilemmas, arming practicing managers with the skills to implement positive changes in their organizations. While retaining much of the valuable information from the previous editions, the Third Edition adds up-to-date information and ideas to chapters on developing leadership, planning strategically, solving organizational problems, addressing challenging employee situations, monitoring financial statements, improving internal and external communications, and obtaining funding from private foundations. New to this edition are topics that will make managers even more effective: designing service delivery programs, marketing consumer services, promoting organizational change, developing volunteer programs, and seeking governmental funding. An additional chapter on resource development includes discussion of electronic philanthropy and developing a business plan. The new edition also provides useful Web sites for keeping current on management and fundraising developments.
In this unique and thoroughly researched volume, Donald Linhorst analyzes the conditions that facilitate empowerment and provides the framework necessary to bolster this historically powerless population's access to the material and cultural resources they need to regain control of their lives. Chapters illustrate how to foster empowerment in treatment planning, housing selection, organizational decision making, mental health service planning and policy making, employment, participation in research and evaluation, and consumer provision of mental health and support services. Case studies from a public psychiatric hospital and a community mental health agency illustrate each of the seven areas and present evidence of the model's efficacy. Finally, the book maps out the roles that service providers, administrators, policy makers, advocacy groups, researchers, and clients can play in the empowerment process.
Checklists, step-by-step instructions, historical overviews, and vivid examples make this a valuable teaching tool, planning guide, and everyday reference for mental health professionals seeking an innovative and evidence-based approach to working with their clients with severe mental illness.
The 1997 print Supplement to the Encyclopedia adds 30 brand new entries. It also includes the same search tools for readers featured in the 19th Edition.
Author: Wade Robison and Linda Cherrey Reeser Copyright: 2000
As social work advances into the new millennium, new knowledge and skills will be required. The pace of change will continue to accelerate. The principals and skills that you learn as a social work student will serve you in the future as a social work practitioner.
Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Critical Review of the NASW Code of Ethics
Author: Frederic G. Reamer Copyright: 1998
Ethical Standards in Social Work is the first comprehensive examination of the NASW Code of Ethics of the social work profession is now available through the NASW Press. With this practical guide, which includes many case examples, social work professionals will now have a firm foundation for making ethical decisions and minimizing malpractice and liability risk.
This essential source of information begins with an overview of the profession and its mission. Then each section of the NASW Code of Ethics is analyzed, with guidance for practice in areas such as confidentiality and privacy, client records, boundary issues, dual and multiple relationships, informed consent, sexual harassment, consultation, referral, conflicts of interest, cultural and ethnic diversity, continuing education, research and evaluation, social worker impairment, labor-management disputes, supervision, administration, social and political action, and social work education and training.
Essential for every social work practitioner and student, Ethical Standards in Social Work will help you make informed ethical decisions and minimize professional liability in these litigious times.
Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services
Edited by: Albert R. Roberts and Kenneth R. Yeager: 2004
Emphasizes and summarizes kay elements, issues, concepts, and how-to approaches in the development and application of evidence-based practice. Discussions include program evaluation, quality and operational improvements strategies, research grant applications, validating measurement tools, and utilizing statistical procedures. Concise summaries of the substantive evidence gained from methodologically rigorous quantitative and qualitative research make this an accessible resource for a broad range of practitioners facing mandate of evidence-based practice in health and human services.
Expert Witnessess in Child Abuse Cases: What Can and Should be Said in Court
Edited by Stephen J. Ceci and Helene Hembrooke
Discusses the various aspects of testimony and provides recommendations on the role of the expert witness. Written by lawyers, psychologists, and social workers. Includes an overview of ethical standards and explores the experience of providing expert testimony, evidence, and ethical testimony.
The text is deigned to explore child welfare services from the least intrusive into family life to the more intrusive and finally those that substitute care for the family.
The text is designed to explore child welfare services from the least intrusive into family life to the more intrusive and finally those that substitute care for the family. The chapters are arranged so that, after a brief background of child welfare and the family, the reader will recognize the services that support family life, those that supplement the roles of the family, and those that substitute for what should be provided by the family.
Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators
Author: George Collison, Bonnie Elbaum, Sarah Haavind, Robert Tinker
"Facilitating Online Learning: Effective Strategies for Moderators" is Atwood Publishing's latest title and one of your greatest resources for distance education. It will help you build an online community and fuel online dialogue to create relationships between interactants. It will also provide you with a wide repertoire of strategies for sharpening your course's content and ways to fend off and avoid technological problems and roadblocks that you will invariably face during your class.
Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered Child & Family Practice
Authors: Gale Burford and Joe Hudson Copyright 2000
Critics of empowerment models have charged that families who become the subjects of child abuse investigations are too dysfunctional to contribute in a meaningful way to making decisions about how to protect the children in their own families. Apart from its usefulness as a reference manual, this book shows that family members have, in fact, worked together with mandated authorities to find lasting solutions for problems associated with keeping children safe. It also presents current information on related approaches, such as community conferences, circles, and wraparound services used in child and family welfare settings of various kinds. Such approaches entail a shift in assumptions about the way child welfare services are planned and delivered, away from models that emphasize pathology and toward those in which an ecological understanding of the families and social networks involved in grappling with the problems is sought.
Father Facts seeks to provide community workers, elected leaders and others with a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the social science research being conducted on family structure, father absence and its implications, and the effects of father involvement on the well-being of children and society.
Volume 1: Foundations of Child Protective Services Volume 2: Case Planning and Family-Centered Casework Volume 3: Child Development and Child Welfare Volume 4: Placement and Permanence
The "Field Guide to Child Welfare" is a comprehensive, four-volume resource for child welfare workers and supervisors to use in their everyday practice. The guide describes basic theory, practical application, and pertinent case examples and examines specialized practice issues related to adoption, sexual abuse, cultural competency, and children with developmental disabilities. The Field Guide was designed to be thorough, pragmatic, and well-grounded in principle and will be a required resource for anyone who works in child welfare or related fields.
Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization and The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The
Author: Peter M. Senge Copyright: 1990 and 1994
The Fifth Discipline has turned many readers into true believers; it remains the ideal introduction to Senge's carefully integrated corporate framework, which is structured around "personal mastery," "mental models," "shared vision," and "team learning." Using ideas that originate in fields from science to spirituality, Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principals, offers some basic tools for practicing it, and shows what it's like to operate under this system. The book's concepts remain stimulating and relevant as ever. --Howard Rothman
The Fieldbook is an intensely pragmatic guide. It shows how to create an organization of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the lifeblood of every endeavor, and where the tough questions are fearlessly asked. The stories here show that companies, businesses, schools, agencies, and even communities can undo their "learning disabilities" and achieve superior performance. If ever a work gave meaning to the phrase hands-on, this is it. Senge and his four co-authors cover it all including:
Reinventing relationships Being loyal to the truth Building a shared vision Organizations as communities Designing an organization's governing ideas
The new research in brain development tells us of the vital importance of the relationship between the caregiver and child in the critical first years of life.
The greatest managers in the world seem to have little in common. They differ in sex, age, and race. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently disregard the golden rule. And, yes, they even play favorites. This amazing book explains why.
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the remarkable findings of their massive in-depth study of great managers across a wide variety of situations. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial companies. Whatever their situations, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup's research were invariably those who excelled at turning each employee's talent into performance.
Follow This Path: How the Greatest Organizations Drive Growth By Unleashing Human Potential
Authors: Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, Ph.D.
From the coauthor of the National Bestseller First, Break All the Rules. This book on tape or CD shows how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls the Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses. Helping you build relationships one customer and one employee at a time, this important audiobook offers a unique new path for your organization to follow. All you have to do is value and develop human relationships all around you to transform your business - starting today.
What do the world's greatest organizations have in common? They know that their most valuable resource is human-their employees and customers. And the best companies understand two important facts: people are emotional first and rational second, and because of that, employees and customers must be emotionally engaged in order for the organization to reach its full potential. Gallup research not only bears that out, but has uncovered the secrets of creating and managing an "emotional economy" that will provide boom possibilities for your company.
FOLLOW THIS PATH shows you how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls The Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses. You'll learn the prerequisites of an effective workplace, forge unbreakable bonds between employees and customers with the book's 34 Routes to Superior Performance, know the three crucial links that drive productivity and growth, discover the best employee and customer motivators, and much more.
Forrester Family: A Video Case Study, The (video and instructor's guide)
Oklahoma Dept. of Human Services 99 Minutes
This video illustrates a child welfare caseworker's activities in a family situation involving the abuse of a 9-year old boy. The five segments of the video dramatize the caseworker's interactions with the mother from their initial contact at intake through the development of a case plan to reunify the family. Based on a case study originally published in the Field Guide to Child Welfare, this video has a wide range of potential applications as a training tool for learners at all levels.
Author: Richard P. Barth, Mark Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick and Vicky Albert: 1994
This volume synthesizes the results of a longitudinal study in California of the paths taken by child abuse victims from the initial abuse report through foster care, placement for adoption, or return to family. In tracing the lifespan descriptions of these children reside at each phase: the varieties of foster care; group home and adoption alternatives; and differences in backgrounds and resources in the parental care provided.
From the Front Lines Student Cases in Social Work Ethics
Author: Juliet Cassuto Rothman Copyright: 1998
Major ethical issues are inherent in the work of any profession. Yet, as social workers, we often confront problems that are unique and especially difficult for the work that we do has a strong impact upon every aspect of the lives of those we serve.
Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.
In 2001, the state of Maine gave FRONTLINE unprecedented access to observe the daily lives of its child protection caseworkers. Follow caseworkers as they interact with families and each other, dealing with the excruciating dilemmas and heartbreaking choices that confront them every day. Length: 120 minutes
FRONTLINE Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr
FRONTLINE
Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.
In January 2001, five-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in the basement of her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly respected former caseworker for Maine's Department of Human Services. FRONTLINE examines the girl's short, troubled life. Length: 60 minutes.
Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.
It's the mystery of mysteries - especially to parents. Now the experts are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do and how the new discoveries can change the way we teach, or perhaps even understand, our teenagers. Length: 60 minutes. Available in DVD and VHS
Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.
Today, millions of American children are being prescribed powerful behavior modification drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft. But are these medications really necessary - and safe - for young children, or merely a harried nation's quick fix for annoying yet age appropriate behavior? FRONTLINE investigates the growing use of psyhcoactive drugs by children. Length: 60 minutes.
From: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Copyright: 1999
The purpose of the text is to disseminate timely information about major issues related to children's well-being, with special emphasis on providing objective analysis and evaluation, translating existing knowledge into effective programs and policies, and promoting constructive institutional change.
Generational Learning Styles is a pioneering work intended to provide you with guidelines for meeting the challenges of multiple generations in school, work and society. For trainers, teachers at all levels, faculty, human resource professionals and anyone interested in generations and in learning styles. After reading Generational Learning Styles, you will be more creative and successful in your own teaching and work.
Getting Ready for Court - Civil Court Edition: A Book for Children (2)
Lynn M. Copen, Sheila Martin Berry, and Linda M. Pucci Copyright: 2000
This book is designed to help your child learn about court. Help your child read one chapter at a time. This book is primarily prepared for children of elementary school age.
Getting Ready For Court - Criminal Court Edition: A Book for Children (2)
Lynn M. Copen and Linda M. Pucci Copyright: 2000
This book is designed to help your child learn about court. Help your child read one chapter at a time. This book is primarily prepared for children of elementary school age.
Great Plains affords a look at some of Curtis's most moving and memorable images, with excerpts from his original text providing information about who these peoples were and how they lived. It is a splendid distillation of tribal life on the brink of extinction in a region once rich in game and open space. The struggle of Native Americans who made their home on the Great Plains increased with the arrival of the twentieth century. Curtis's stunning images and text preserve the proud heritage of these native nations of North America.
Howard Dubowitz & Diane DePanfilis Copyright: 2000
Professionals concerned with the protection of children face many challenges. This work demands knowledge from several disciplines, a wide variety of skills, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The editors, Howard Dubowitz, a pediatrician, and Diane DePanfilis, a social worker, together with over 70 experts in this field offer what is known about how best to work with maltreated children and their families, in a very practical, concise, and user-friendly way.
Structured to follow the life of a case from the time a report of child maltreatment is made through the various pathways in the child protection system, this edited volume synthesizes the best practice principles for responding to reports of child abuse and neglect; engaging children and other family members in intervention; developing cross-cultural practice competencies; assessing risk, evaluating safety, and conducting family assessments; defining outcomes and planning intervention; evaluating risk reduction; and making permanency decisions; and discusses the unique legal, medical, ethical, and other practice issues that work in the child protection field involves. Professionals facing tough dilemmas in practice should find valuable guidance in these pages.
Handbook of Attachment Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications
Jude Cassidy, and Phillip R Shaver Copyright: July 2002
In the fields of social and emotional development, attachment theory is the most visible and empirically grounded conceptual framework. In the growing clinical literature on the effects of early parent-child relationships, including troubled and abusive relations of adolescents and adults-including the study of romantic, marital, or pair-bond relationship's attachment theory is one of the most influential approaches. Among researchers who study bereavement, Bowlby's volume on loss is a continuing source of insight and intellectual inspiration.
Kjell Erik Rudestam and Judith Schoenholtz-Read Copyright: 2002
The demand for academic coursework and corporate training programs using the Internet and computer-mediated communication networks increases daily. The development and implementation of these new programs requires that traditional teaching techniques and course work be significantly reworked. The handbook consists of 20 chapters authored by experts in the field of teaching in the online environment to adult students enrolled in graduate university degree programs, corporate training programs, and continuing education courses. The book is organized to first lay a conceptual and theoretical foundation for implementing any online learning program. Topics such as psychological and group dynamics, ethical issues, and curriculum design are covered in this section. Following the establishment of this essential framework are separate sections devoted to the practical issues specific to developing a program in either an academic or corporate environment. Whether building an online learning program from the ground up or making adjustments to improve the effectiveness of an existing program, this book is an invaluable resource.
Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook, 2nd Edition
Charmaine Brittain and Deborah Esquibel Hunt Copyright: 2004
The structure, the practive philosophy, and the emphasis on information that workers need to do their job had not changed in this new edition. However, CPS is ever-changing and this book reflects the evolution of CPS practice and changing families.
This program teaches skills for assessing suicidal risk and managing situations where clients or hospitalized patients are at risk of self-harm. The video is divided into four sections — assessment, crisis management, problem solving, and crisis prevention — and features scenarios that illustrate basic skills.
This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.
HOMEWORKS #1, Helping Children and Youths Manage Separation and Loss, provides basic information about separation, loss, and the grieving process to help the foster parent or adoptive parent understand the loss history of the child in their care, its effect on growth and development, and ways to help the child cope with angry or sad feelings and behaviors.
This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.
HOMEWORKS #2, Helping Children and Youths Develop Positive Attachments, offers general background on how children form attachments and ways to help children develop and maintain positive attachments to their foster or adoptive parents.
This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.
HOMEWORKS #3, Helping Children and Youths Manage the Impact of Placement, shows how foster parents and adoptive parents can integrate a new child into their family and minimize the risk of placement disruption.
How to Work With Your Court: A Guide for Child Welfare Agency Administrators
Mark Hardin Copyright: 1993
Introduction: This book presents a challenge for child welfare administrators. It has been written for those with special dedication and courage. That is, it is for administrators who are not overly intimidated by lawyers and judges, and who are willing to work hard to improve agency-court relationships. Most of it all, it is for those who put the welfare of maltreated children above all other considerations.
Herbert A. Schreier and Judith A. Libow Copyright: 1993
This book offers the first comprehensive, detailed examination of Munchausen by Proxy syndrome. Written by leading authorities, it covers all known clinical, medical, psychological, social, and legal aspects of the disorder, including detection, dynamics, treatment, and clinical management.
Let I Have to Give a Presentation, Now What?! come to your rescue. It will gently walk you through all you need to know about how to give a presentation. Inside these clearly written, beautifully illustrated pages, you'll learn how to:
- Overcome stage fright like a pro - Organize your thoughts - Analyze your audience - Write for the ear - Pace you presenation - Handle questions and answers - Prepare for your big day
Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook, The: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children
B.J. Jones Copyright: 1995
This book is designed to assist those persons, including lawyers, social workers, counselors, and others, whose professions and interests involve them with Native American children to understand the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
Interviewing for Child Sexual Abuse, A Forensic Guide
Produced by Guilford Publications, Inc. Length: 30 minutes
Professionals called upon to interview children about alleged sexual abuse must possess a solid understanding of both legal and clinical issues. What are the most appropriate techniques for eliciting reliable accounts from children? How should the interview be structured to avoid legal challenges? From child abuse evaluation expert Kathleen Faller, this video is ideal viewing for mental health and child protection professionals, lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel. Simulated and actual interview vignettes guide viewers through sensitively gathering general and abuse-focused information. Faller shows how to gauge children's ability to report events accurately, which kinds of questions to ask and which to avoid, how to use anatomical drawings and dolls appropriately,and how to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary evaluation team. The companion manual features supplemental information, role-play scenarios and skills exercises, findings on children's memory and suggestibility, resource listings, and references for further reading.
Companion video to "Multiple Transitions: A Young Child's Point of View on Foster Care and Adoption." This video is designed for the support of foster and adoptive parents, as well as for the training of professionals in child welfare. It acknowledges that caring for, and falling in love with a child who has been traumatized by abuse, loss or profound neglect bears little resemblance to the romantic stories about adoption often told to unsuspecting parents. Video is accompanied by a booklet offering a brief look at attachment disorders and listing references and available resources
Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, and Patrick Callanan Copyright: 1998
How do the therapist's values and life experiences affect the therapeutic process? What are the rights and responsibilities of client and helper? How can helping professionals determine their own level of competence? What are the ethical issues special to managed care systems? How can therapists provide quality services for culturally diverse populations? What are some major ethical issues facing practitioners in marital and family therapy? In group work? In community agencies? In private Practice?
David W Johnson and Frank P Johnson Copyright:2003
This text introduces readers to the theory and research findings needed to understand how to make groups effective while helping build the skills required to apply that knowledge in practical situations.
A panel of teenagers and young adults respond to a series of questions about living or having lived in kinship care. The panelists discuss: -How they felt about living with their relatives, and not with their parents. -The challenges and adjustments to accepting their relatives in a parental role. -How their parents' incarceration, substance abuse and absence effected them; and how they displayed those feelings. -What explanations were given to them, and how did they react to the reasons for why they were in kinship care. -What interactions and supports from their birth parents and relatives helped them to adjust to kinship care. -What were the challenges to re-uniting with their birth parents and separating from their relative. Video comes with discussion points, topics and questions.
Kinship Foster Care: Policy, Practice, and Research
Rebecca L. Hegar and Maria Scannapieco Copyright: 1999
This text is the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of what is considered to be the fastest growing type of substitute care for children in state custody. It assembles the thinking and research of prominent researchers, policy advocates, and practice specialists from several professional fields, detailing their work, research, and thoughts concerning the three topics of kinship care: policy, practice, and research.
LaFromboise: Counseling and Therapy with Native American Indians
Microtraining (68 minutes)
Assumptions Native American Indians hold about counseling and therapy. Cultural factors which must be considered in treatment strategies. The Network treatment plan, valuable in all multicultural counseling and therapy. Provides many specifics important in all multicultural helping
Lying is the most common child behavior problem reported by foster parents. In this program parents learn to understand and deal with this frustrating problem by looking at four types of lying behavior: lying to get out of trouble, lying to gain attention, pathological lying, and lying to get others in trouble.
Making Choices Social Problem-Solving Skills for Children
Mark W. Fraser, James K. Nash, Maeda J. Galinsky and Kathleen M. Darwin. Copyright: Nov. 2000
This is the first volume in the NASW Practice Resources Series, which presents manuals and handbooks that provide specific guidance on practice strategies. Across all fields of practice and practice settings, the book in this series explain promising social work interventions in rich detail, sometimes on a week-by-week or, even, session-by-session basis. Each practice resource contains guidelines for tailoring content to the unique cultural, ethical, and racial characteristics of clients. Concise, flexible, and current, publications in the series describe the best available practice strategies for a myriad of challenges that confront 21st century practitioners.
Reviewing many of the causes of oppositional, strong-willed behavior, this video outlines effective, practical strategies for managing hard-to-manage children and teens. It includes expert commentary to help viewers better understand how to improve outcomes at home and at school, as well as how to handle difficult parent-child and teacher-student interactions.
Childhood defiance - the most common complaint of parents seeking professional help for their children - exerts a tremendous amount of wear-and-tear on families. This video brings to life a proven approaches to behavior management, and shows clinicians, school practitioners, parents, students, and teachers how enhanced parenting skills can dramatically improve the parent-child relationship.
Motivational Interviewing Preparing People for Change
William R. Miller, Stephan Rollnick Copyright: 2002
Motivational interviewing is an effective-based approach to overcoming the ambivalence that keeps many people from making desired changes in their lives, even after seeking or being referred to professional treatment. Countless clinicians have used Motivational Interviewing since the initial publication of this book- and theory and methods have evolved apace. Extensively rewritten, this revised and expanded second edition applies Motivational Interviewing to the challenges of change within and beyond the addictions field, with updates from what had been learned in the last decade. The volume incorporates emerging knowledge on the process of behavior change, a growing body of outcome research, and discussions of novel applications.
Young children who have lost someone very important to them often "speak" about that loss thorough their behavior, rather than with words. The Interactive and affective "language" of young children is a worthy language, deserving of our attention and respect. This video is an effort to put into words that which is already being "said" by young children whose mothers or fathers have disappeared, temporarily or permanently.
Historical overview of infant mental health, with current thoughts on the process by which human infants and their primary caretakers develop a bond; what difference it makes to the infant’s mental, motor, physical and emotional development, and how we may notice when such a bond is absent or conflicted. Suitable for use with "lay" groups (parents, educators, etc.) as well as for use as an introduction to more in-depth training of clinicians, the tape includes narrative and vignettes from both healthy and conflicted caregiver-infant dyads. (Color, 56 minutes)
Is a willful little darling driving you to distraction? Are you wondering where you went wrong as a parent? You may have a strong-willed child... They come into the world smoking a cigar and yelling about the temperature in the delivery room. As toddlers, their greatest delights include painting the carpet with Mom's makeup and trying to flush the family cat down the toilet. As older children and teenagers, they are irritable, defiant, and seemingly bent on challenging all forms of authority. Challenging as they are to raise, strong-willed children can grow up to be men and women of strong character - if lovingly guided with understanding and the right kind of discipline. In The New Strong-Willed Child, Dr. James Dobson offers practical how-tos on raising one of these little powerhouses, drawing on up-to-date research and years of experience advising families.
Addressing the justifiable fear many human service professionals face regarding intervention without a team to assist, this video teaches how to outline a plan of action for maintaining personal safety. It considers risks for those who make home visits, those who work alone in group homes or other residential settings, and those who might be caught off guard when alone in a facility.
Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes.
So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: for your own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization.
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Stephen O'Connor Copyright: 2001
A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, ORPHAN TRAINS fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous — and sometimes infamous — child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some 250,000 abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some youngsters, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today.
Outcome Initiatives in Child Welfare not only describes the initiatives being conducted by the Child Welfare League, but also provides information on national initiatives, university-based initiatives, state initiatives, county / city initiatives, and the activities of individual agencies. Liaison contacts for each initiative are also included.
Pain Beneath the Rage is one of the two in the series that focus on issues of adolescents in the foster care system. It features Stacey, who has run away from home because of sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriend.
My Home, My Castle is the second of the series to address adolescents by featuring Kevin, a 17 year old biracial youth who has experienced multiple placements. The video addresses issues related to attachment and bonding, drug involvement, and foster parent adoption.
Painful Passages Working with Children with Learning Disabilities
Elizabeth Dane: 1990
This is a comprehensive resource that will be especially valuable for social work practitioners working in school settings. Dane brings great clarity to issues such as truancy, nonattendance, family disruption, delinquency, and other problems that often are the result of learning disabilities and that are of major concern to school social workers. Assessment, bias in assessment, parent involvement, and interdisciplinary teamwork are all covered well.
Place to Call Home: Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Foster Care, A
Steve Christian & Lisa Ekman Copyright: 2000
Approximately 547,000 children were in foster care at the end of March 1999. And the costs of caring for them have increased dramatically. But more than cost -- foster kids are in limbo.There has been an important policy shift regarding foster children with new emphasis on safety, a permanent home and the child's well-being. Read about these important developments in the new NCSL publication. 2000, 60 pages
Planning and Conducting Agency-Based Research: Third Edition
Alex Westerfelt and Tracy J. Dietz Copyright: 2005
This unique workbook provides users with step-by-step procedures for completion of an agency-based research study. The workbook, in 81/2 x 11 format, can be used in field work courses while students are actually at a welfare agency conducting their research. Or it can be used during a practicum or senior seminar to help them design and write their senior year project or thesis. The workbook is user-friendly, written in clear language with concrete instructions, with spaces to write in responses. By using the workbook, anyone will be able to proceed step-by-step to design and conduct a research study. In this edition, the authors have included a new section on outcomes evaluation (Section IX), and many more examples to follow, including a fully annotated example of a literature review. For anyone doing social work research or field work.
This textbook is a valuable part of the learning process for a social work practitioner; it will help you to acquire the skills and knowledge you will need an an ever-changing global society. This text will also help you to connect with the latest research and debates in the field.
A practitioner's guide. This text is packaged with three children's workbooks to facilitate the child's learning and understanding of the court process. Viewed as an essential toolkit, no professional in the field should be without this volume and its accompanying workbooks.
National Association of Social Workers. Length: 40 minutes.
This video presents interviews with a number of social work practitioners, educators, and administrators as they discuss the subject of ethical social work practice. The participants speak candidly about topics that arise for the practitioner, the client, or both, and the video presents case scenarios that highlight the "fine line" between sound ethical practice and professional misconduct. Each segment covers frequently encountered ethical issues related to confidentiality, boundary issues, indiscretion, and client self-determination. Steps guide the viewer on making sound ethical decisions and handling ethical problems. The video includes an introduction by Ann Abbott, past president, NASW, who describes the underlying values and principles of the social work profession, and a discussion of the NASW Code of Ethics.
Arthur J. Reynolds, Herbert J. Walberg, and Roger P. Weissberg Copyright: 1999
Issues in children and families lives is designed to focus attention on the pressing social problems facing children and their families today. Each volume in this series will analyze, integrate, and critique the clinical and research literature on children and their families as it relates to a particular theme. Believing tat integrated multidisciplinary approaches offer greater opportunities for program success, volume contributors will reflect the research and clinical knowledge base of the many different disciplines that are committed to enhancing the physical, social, and emotional health of children and their families. Intended for graduate and professional audiences, chapters will be written by scholars and practitioners who will encourage readers to apply their practice skills and intellect to reducing the suffering of children and their families in the society in which they live and work.
Recognizing and Managing Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects: A Guideboo
Brenda McCreight Copyright: 1997
For any parent or professional who needs to work with children with fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects (FAS/FAE), this important guide offers practical advice and solid information for dealing with its lifelong effects on behavior and learning. It covers the historical, medical, and social aspects of FAS/FAE, and details the common behavioral characteristics associated with the condition. Taking a developmental approach, the guide offers specific behavioral management techniques to be used with children with FAS/FAE from infancy through late adolescence. The author's own case studies are used to clarify psychological concepts and personalize FAS/FAE for the novice.
Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care
Joseph Crumbley, Robert L. Little Copyright: 1997
The rapid growth of kinship care has caught many child welfare agencies off guard. Relatives Raising Children gives professionals, agencies, institutions, communities, and organizations the information they need to develop and provide service to kinship caregivers, kinship families, children, and parents. The authors discuss common clinical issues, suggest intervention strategies, examine kinship care's legal implications, and offer policy and program recommendations.
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work Practice
Norman Linzer Copyright: 1999
Ethics is in the air. Hardly a day goes by without a new story detailing breaches of ethical conduct in government, business, education and the professions. Despite or perhaps because of violations, ethics is held up as a standard in the public sphere to which professionals are expected to conform. But even with the ubiquity of codes in ethics, the difference between right and wrong is becoming less clear. Traditional mores are challenged, contemporary values are changing and conflicts among values seem to be on the rise.
Responding to Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in Child Welfare
Nancy K. Young, Sidney L. Gardner, Kimberly Dennis Copyright: 1998
Many parents who come into contact with the child welfare system use and/or abuse alcohol and other drugs (AOD), and that abuse impairs their children.
Drawing on the experience of several models of child welfare practice, this guidebook sets forth a policy framework that can assist child welfare agencies in responding to these overlapping problems. The authors describe several models where agencies have been able to develop effective ways of linking child welfare services and AOD treatment and set forth the pros and cons of these models. The text reviews innovative practices in both the child welfare and substance abuse treatment field, including changes in approaches to families, in interviewing techniques, in community partnerships, and in using treatment outcomes to determine which programs are most effective for which clients.
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child
From the National Film Board of Canada. Length: 29:10
In his short life, Richard Cardinal learned much about indifference. His diary speaks hauntingly of the misery and longing of a young buy who spent thirteen years being shunted through a seemingly endless series of foster homes and shelters. Richard wrote of how he tried to cut himself off emotionally, to feel nothing because to do so was to feel only pain. The effort was too great to sustain. When his resources ran out, Richard Cardinal, aged 17, hanged himself. Much as he was neglected in life, the young Metis did not go unnoticed in death. The circumstances of his life and suicide were at once so extraordinary yet so sadly commonplace that they precipitated changes to Alberta's Child Welfare Act.
Secret Life of the Brain: The Adult Brain: To Think by Feeling
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes
The brain is the seat of both intellect and emotion, and this episode chronicles the critical balance between these processes and explores what happens when the balance is lost. Scientists draw insight from the stories of a stroke victim and a sufferer of post-traumatic stress disorder, and break new ground in the struggle to understand and treat depression.
Secret Life of the Brain: The Aging Brain: Through Many Lives
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes
For years, science has suggested that we lose vast numbers of brain cells as we grow older; now it turns out that this is not true -- in fact, healthy brains continue to produce new neurons well into the 70s. Drawing on the most recent neuroscience discoveries, this episode presents a new view of how the brain ages, focusing in part on the remarkable strides being made in understanding stroke, Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.
Secret Life of the Brain: The Baby's Brain: Wider than the sky
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes
Less than a month after conception, brain cells are developing at the astonishing rate of 500,000 per minute. The brain will ultimately comprise billions of cells linked by trillions of connections, the most complex thing in the universe. How does it organize itself? What are the roles of genetics and environment in brain development? The first hour traces the formation of the infant brain through the age of one, the period during which it is most open to molding through external influence and experience.
Secret Life of the Brain: The Child's Brain: Syllable from Sound
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes
The explosion of language in young children provides one of the most dramatic illustrations of the young brain at work. How do we learn to talk? How do we learn to read? Unlike adults, in whose brains most linguistic activity is restricted to the left hemisphere, very young children respond to language with the entire brain. But what happens when the brain is physically compromised? And what are the physical roots of language disorders such as dyslexia?
Secret Life of the Brain: The Teenage Brain: A World of Their Own
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes
This episode offers potential comfort to parents who believe teenagers are different from the rest of humanity by demonstrating that it's literally true. During puberty the brain is a work in progress, teeming with hormones, while the areas that direct reasoning and impulse control are still in development. Adolescence is also a period during which people are especially susceptible to schizophrenia and addiction, two areas currently under intensive study and benefiting from increased understanding of brain function.
Sexualized Child in Foster Care: A Guide for Foster Parents and Other Professionals, The
Sally G. Hoyle Copyright: 2000
This practical guide gives foster parents and other child welfare professionals information, training tips, and copious references for those who want to go beyond the basics. The developmental needs and normal behavior of different age groups are discussed throughout. Signs and symptoms of sexual abuse are presented according to the child’s age. Chapters include information on sex and sexuality, distinguishing normal from abnormal sexual behavior, treatment methods, research on sexual abuse assessment and methods, concerns about the sexually aggressive child, emotional cost of treating sexual abuse survivors in foster care, and a look ahead to recommended research topics and improvements in training foster parents and other professionals. Sally Hoyle recognizes that those who work in foster care are extremely busy, and condenses a large amount of information into bulleted lists for easy reference.
This book presents a revolutionary approach to child protection work. It focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" The authors bring the solution orientation to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. The philosophy behind this approach is clearly articulated through twelve practice principles that serve as guiding beacons for child protection workers as they traverse the rough waters of abuse and neglect investigation.
Part talk show and part docu-drama, this program focuses on the epidemic of teenage suicide and depression. The 30-minute program profiles teens who have attempted suicide and their progression in coping with depression. Grammy-award winning recording artist CeCe Winans hosts a studio audience segment in which teens and suicide experts discuss warning signs, causes and prevention of teen suicide.
Until now, therapists who simultaneously treat parent and child have not had a book to guide them through the complicated issues involved in their work. This book lays out the theoretical base for working with both parent and child.
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
Marsha M. Linehan
This book is a step-by-step guide to teaching clients four sets of skills: interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness.
Social Work Approaches to Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: Case Studies and Teaching Tools
Maryann Amodeo Copyright: 1997
This book of case studies, vignettes, and teaching tools is designed to help social work students and practitioners learn intervention methods for situations involving alcohol and drug abuse.
The nearly 8,000 terms defined in the fourth edition of The Social Work Dictionary are used in social work administration, research, policy development, and planning; community organization; human growth and development; health and mental health; macro and micro social work; and clinical theory practice. All of the diagnostic terms are consistent with those of the DSM-IV.
The Social Work Ethics Casebbook - Cases and Commentary is the first ethics casebook, including extensive cases and commentary published exclusively for social workers.
Social Work Ethics Day to Day: Guidelines for Professional Practice
Carolyn Cressy Wells with M. Kathleen Masch Copyright:1986
Professional Social workers, attempting to fulfill the needs of their clients, face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis and make practice decisions with incomplete information in situations that present irreconcilable and irresolvable problems. Yet social workers entering the profession are frequently unprepared for the complex ethical issues with which they must cope. How does the professional social worker resolve the ethical dilemmas that occur daily while making sure that their clients get the help they need? Social Work Ethics Day to Day examines conflicts in social work ethics as they arise in daily professional practice.
Social Work Practice with Children is intended as a textbook for students of social work at the undergraduate and graduate levels, but it profitably could and should be red by any professional who works with children.
Social Work Practice: Cases, Activities, and Exercises
Kim Strom-Gottfried Copyright: 1999
This workbook looks at social work practice broadly, defining it not only as practice with individuals but also with groups, families, communities, and organizations. It also incorporates social work practice in an array of settings, such as schools, hospitals, child welfare units, mental health centers, and crisis services.
This book is an invaluable, practice-oriented text that offers broad coverage-from a distinct ecological perspective-of at-risk children and adolescents. Incorporating research, theoretical concepts, and case illustrations, it employs a transactional framework to address the implications of family, culture, poverty, and other environmental factors on child and adolescent behavior.
This book offers a transactional framework that notes the importance of environmental conditions in providing direct and indirect services to children and adolescents. The book incorporates research, theoretical concepts, case illustrations, and practice directions in simple language. It is designed for advanced undergraduate students interested in a more complete view of practice with this group.
Solution-Based Casework: An Introduction to Clinical and Case Management Skills in Casework Practice
Dana N. Christensen, Jeffery Todahl, and William C. Barrett Copyright: 1999
Solution-Based Casework is a skill-based, practice-orientated text designed to make sense quickly of the complex tasks of assessment and case planning in child welfare. By successfully integrating two practice models--problem-focused relapse prevention (drawn from work in addiction and violence) and solution-focused models (evolved from family systems therapy)--the authors offer a common conceptual framework that allows all providers in a therapeutic system to work toward common goals
Based on the conviction that all families have the potential for repair or growth, this pathbreaking book offers a fresh alternative to clinicians' prevalent focus on family dysfunction. Drawing upon extensive clinical and research experience, Froma Walsh presents an innovative framework for therapeutic and preventive work with couples and families who are distressed, vulnerable, or at risk. Filled with suggestions for strength-promoting, collaborative interventions that can help family relationships rebound from the worst of times, the book provides important clinical insights for professionals and students in a range of mental health and human service settings.
Strengths Model: Case Management with People with Psychiatric Disabilities, The - Second Edition
Charles A. Rapp & Richard J. Goscha, Copyright 2006
Much has occurred since the publication of the first edition of this classic textbook. Recovery from psychiatric disabilities has become the new vision for mental health services. It has placed a new eminence on consumer resiliency, choice, self-determination, shared decision-making, and empowerment. Implementing evidence-based services has become a major focus of service system reform internationally.
The Strengths Model, Second Edition firmly grounds the strengths model of case management within the recovery paradigm and details evidence-based guidelines for practice. In clear language the authors describe the conceptual underpinnings, theory, empirical support, principles, and practice methods that comprise the strengths model of case management. A chapter on the organizational structure and management methods necessary for successful implementation of the model make this a valuable tool for trainers, supervisors, and quality assurance personnel.
This thoroughly updated edition reflects the dynamic nature of the strengths model. Practice methods have been added and refined and more detailed descriptions provided. Practice tools have been improved and new ones, like the Strengths Model Fidelity Instrument, added. New case vignettes have been added to give the reader a vivid picture of the methods in actual practice. A user-friendly guide for students and professionals, The Strengths Model remains the only book available that systematically translates the ideas and conceptions about the strengths model into a set of empirically derived practices for people with psychiatric disabilities.
Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sexual relationship with a client, are obvious pitfalls to avoid, but what about more subtle issues, like hugging a client or disclosing personal information to a client? What are the boundaries of maintaining a friendship with a former client or the relative of a client? When do conflicts of interest overburden the client-practitioner relationship? Frederic Reamer, a leading authority on professional ethics, offers a definitive and up-to-date analysis of boundary issues, a rapidly emerging topic in the field of human services. One of the only works in the field to provide a conceptual framework for the dual relationship between practitioner and client, this book provides an in-depth look at the complex forms these relationships take. It also gives practical risk-management models to aid human service professionals in the prevention of problematic situations and the managing of dual relationships. Reamer examines the ethics involving intimate and sexual relationships with clients and former clients, practitioners´ self-disclosure, giving and receiving favors and gifts, bartering for services, and unavoidable and unanticipated circumstances such as social encounters and geographical proximity. Case vignettes that help illustrate important points are also included in each chapter.
Testifying about Child Sexual Abuse: A Courtroom Guide
Produced by Guilford Publications, Inc. Length: 35 minutes
Professionals evaluating children for alleged sexual abuse must be aware that they may ultimately be called upon to present their findings in court. This invaluable video helps viewers understand their role in legal proceedings; prepare and deliver testimony effectively; and minimize the stress involved for children. Ideal viewing for mental health and child protection professionals as well as lawyers, judges and law enforcement personnel, the program is enhanced by vignettes from simulated courtroom sessions and in-depth commentary from legal experts. Viewers learn to anticipate the challenges of the adversarial courtroom environment, maximize the legal admissibility of the information they present, and familiarize children with courtroom procedures. The companion manual features supplemental information, role-play scenarios and skills exercises, findings on children's memory and suggestibility, resource listings, and references for further reading.
This study was undertaken in the belief that both practice and research must stem from a foundation of theory. The purpose of this book is to present the theories of Erik H. Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Robert R. Sears, together with some of the implications of these theories for current practice, in the hope that they will generate new ideas, enhance our commitments, and guide our professional practices.
Removing a child from his parents and home is very serious. Strong evidence indicates that children experience extreme trauma during removal, which affects their lives forever. Unexpected separation from a parent can feel like a life-or-death matter to a child, even when the child is coming from an abusive home. This program explores the many factors to be considered by social workers and police officers involved in child removal situations. Viewers will gain insight into how the experience might feel to a child, and how best to approach the removal in a manner that is least traumatic for the child and his family. Questions explored include, is removal really necessary? Is the child in immediate danger? Will the physical and emotional well-being of the child be compromised by the removal? Upon deciding that removal is necessary, there are questions, such as, where will the child be taken? What rights do the parents have? How should the child's questions be answered? These and many other concerns are discussed in the program with the thoroughness and sensitivity.
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length: 20 minutes
An introductory video presenting the issues related to the foster care system and special needs adoption with an emphasis from the perspective of the children within that system.
Tips & Tools: The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation
Jennifer Stanchfield, MS
Facilitation is an art, rather than a science. By its very nature it is an experiential practice-an ever dynamic process of give and take, learning and development. Tips and Tools explores the facilitator's role in groups of all kinds and offers creative tools and activities to enhance group experience.
Alan A. Cavaiola and Neil J. Lavender/New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
The authors help us to recognize a variety of common personality traits and disorders, understand how they come about, and learn to develop effective strategies for dealing with them.
This engaging 30-minute documentary features leading-edge mental health professionals who introduce revolutionary new discoveries that help identify, prevent and heal trauma in children.
This book provides a much needed guide for treating the nonoffending mother in an incest family. The author, Virginia C. Stand, uses case examples to outline a treatment model and give suggestions for specific treatment strategies. The context of the mother's situation is further analyzed in this text, empathizing how such factors as social class, ethnicity, age, and education must be taken into consideration when treating these clients.
Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets - and his heart - for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.
This book was written to help potential professionals recognize child abuse and neglect, intervene and provide treatment. It has been designed to present an overview of all aspects of child maltreatment. Every ten seconds a child is being abused or neglected. But while child abuse and neglect are not new, the problem has become monumental in today's society. But why? Perhaps we live in a more violent society, or maybe the child protection system is not working. This book explores the issues surrounding abuse and neglect from several vantage points, addressing both the problems and the possible solutions that are crucial to the proper protection of our children This book provides a comprehensive overview of child abuse and neglect. It covers recognition, case management, and treatment for abused and neglected children, adding real-life vignettes to bring the statistics to life. It details the history of child welfare, an overview of families that are both functional and dysfunctional, and contrasts healthy child development with development hampered by abuse and neglect. Every type of maltreatment is discussed, from neglect and physical abuse to emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. The book concludes by providing a discussion of prevention, along with a consideration of the future. Social workers, psychologists, social services professionals, and educators.
This video uses a straightforward presentation highlighting and illustrating the provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act. This video is excellent as a learning tool and for reference material. Length 17 minutes.
Understanding the Medical Diagnosis of Child Maltreatment, A Guide for Nonmedical Professionals, Third Edition
Charmaine R. Brittain MSW, Ph.D.
This book is the latest resource from the American Humane Association, this practical guide answers faq about the medical aspects of child abuse and neglect.
Understanding Your Childs Sexual Behavior What's Natural and Healthy
Toni Cavanagh Johnson Copyright: 1999
When your child is engaging in sexual behaviors, it can be difficult to decide when the sexual behavior is natural and healthy and when it may be an indication of some distress or disturbance. You will also find that this book can teach you to distinguish natural and healthy childhood sexuality from disturbed sexuality. And Finally there are helpful strategies for reducing the risk of child sexual abuse.
Latisha describes her excitement in preparing for a visit with her siblings, and then shares her sadness and disappointment because she knows it may be a long time until the next visit.
This book will help foster parents and caseworkers "get into the shoes" of birthparents. Foster parents may use it as a self-help guide. Workers will find it helps attune them to the tasks both foster and birthparents face. Agencies will find it especially effective for use in the separate and joint training of caseworkers and foster parents and for use by teachers and students in learning about biological families.
What Kids Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids
Authors: Peter L. Benson, Judy Galbraith & Pamela Espeland Copyright: 1995
Kids who succeed have specific assets in their lives-not financial assests, but developmental assest including family support, self-esteem, and hope. The more assets young people have, the less likely they are to use alcohol and other drugs, have sex too soon, and engage in other problem behaviors.
Based on a groundbreaking nationwide study, What Kids Need to Succeed spells out 30 assets-good things every young person needs.
-More than 500 specific, concrete suggestions help you build assets at home, at school, in the community, and in the congregation. -Checklists help you identify the assets your kids already have so you can focus on the ones they need. -Special "Tips for Teens: Build Your Own Assets" sections help young people shape their own success.
This book is the culmination of a body of research covering what works in the field of child welfare. Quite often we know that some programs benefit the children and families served, but rarely do we know how or why they work. The book is written in a style accessible to all audiences and attempts to bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers. It is divided into six major sections: family preservation and support services, child protective services, out-of-home care, adoption, child care, and services for adolescents. Each section contains information on what works, conflicting evidence, cost effectiveness, and a summary table.
Authors: John W. James & Russell Friedman Copyright: 2001
To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss. In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children from the false idea of "not feeling bad" and to empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss. There are many life experiences that can produce feelings of grief in a child, from the death of a relative or a divorce in the family to more everyday experiences such as moving to a new neighborhood or losing a prized possession. No matter the reason or degree of severity, if a child you love is grieving, the guidelines examined in this thoughtful book can make a difference.
What the authors discovered in the course of their research is that successful teams integrate five key dynamics: collaborative team members; positive team relationships; productive group problem-solving; leadership that encourages collective achievement; and an organizational environment that genuinely promotes collaboration and teamwork. An exploration of each of these dynamics forms the five main chapters of this book.
Why Am I Here? features two 20-minute vignettes in which social work students interview reluctant clients and then debrief with a supervisor. Based on actual process recordings of student sessions, the vignettes realistically protray the experience of social work interns working with new clients who resist their interventions. The ensuing supervisory sessions present key practice issues and their connections to general theories of clinical social work. In the classroom Why Am I Here? is a useful catalyst for classroom discussion on the many dimensions of the interviewing process. The video includes closed captions. Includes guide.
Join the parents of six-year-old Michael as they seek to understand his impulsivity hyperactivity, and inattention. After a multifaceted assessment, Michael is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Michael's parents learn techniques such as consistent schedules, docking systems, star charts, and self-monitoring to help organize home life. Michael's parents face the pros and cons of medication. Gold Award, 1997 Charleston International Film Festival.
Working With Children & Families Affected By Substance Abuse
Authors: Kathleen Pullan Watkins and Lucius Durant, Jr. Copyright: 1996
This book is written for early childhood educators and others who work with children and families. It is designed to provide some clarity and to offer guidelines for those who want to attempt intervention with substance-affected families.
Working with Children, Adolescents, and their Families
Martin Herbert and Karen V. Harper-Dorton Copyright: 2002
This new edition of a core text targets working with children and their families in the context if their daily lives - in their homes, families, and communities. The authors use a problem-solving approach to provide helping strategies for a variety of problems and problem behaviors that occur in families. Professors Harper-Dorton and Herber take into account current pressures for short-term care, attention to measuring outcomes, family permanency, and various family structures and support systems that include a variety of assessment tools and step-by-step guidelines for intervention techniques as well as guidance for mentoring and empowering families. This latest edition is enhances by expanded coverage of cross-cultural issues, family mentoring, and problems specific to adolescence. Students will find each chapter conclude with a helpful summary and comments.
