Resiliency Enhancement: Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice

✍ Scribed by Elaine Norman (editor)

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 248
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Introduction: The Strengths Perspective and Resiliency Enhancement—A Natural Partnership by Elaine Norman
PART I: RESILIENCY ENHANCEMENT and SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
2. The Legacy of Caretaking Among African American Women: A Mixed Blessing by Eunice Matthews
3. Recognizing and Enhancing Natural Resiliency in Boys and Girls by Sandra Turner
4. Resiliency in Older People: A Paradigm for Practice by Irene A. Gutheil and Elaine Congress
PART II: RESILIENCY ENHANCEMENT and INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, COUPLE and GROUP PRACTICE
5. A Case Study of Resiliency Enhancement Interventions with an African American Woman by Carol P. Kaplan
6, Women’s Resilience at Midlife: What Is It? How Do You Mobilize It? by Sharon McQuaide
7. Grasping Life: Five Stories of Will-Filled Men by Raymond Fox
8. Enhancing Couple Resiliency by Howard Robinson
9. Strength and Resiliency Themes in Social Work Practice with Groups by Michael H. Phillips and Carol S. Cohen
10. The Unitas Extended Family Circle: Developing Resiliency in Hispanic Youngsters by Rosa Perez-Koenig
PART III: RESILENCY ENHANCEMENT in ADMINISTRATIVE, TRAINING , and PREVENTION
11. The Workplace as a Protective Environment: Management Strategies by Sharyn J. Zunz and Roslyn H. Chemesky
12. The African American Professional’s Resiliency by Laura J. Lee
13. Introducing a Strengths/Resiliency Model in Mental Health Organizations by Robert Chazin, Shari Kaplan, and Stephen Terio
14. Capitalizing on Strengths: A Resiliency Enhancement Model for At-Risk Youth by Mary Ann Forgey
Index

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