Social Work Practice with Families: A Resiliency-Based Approach

✍ Scribed by Mary Patricia Van Hook

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 456
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social Work Practice with Families uses resiliency-a strength-based perspective-to frame a collaborative approach to assessment and treatment with families. In so doing, the text aims to help practitioners select a therapeutic model that effectively assists in addressing risk factors and promoting important resources. The book provides clear examples of the elements in a strength-affirming assessment and engagement process, discusses resiliency in terms of families belonging to various cultural groups and family structures, and identifies resiliency issues and implications for practice with families facing major problems. Including current evaluation research from the United States, Canada, and around the globe, the text serves as a helpful resource to undergraduate and graduate social work students and practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Competencies
Part I: Introduction to Resiliency-Based Practice
1. The Nature and Sources of Resiliency
2. Setting the Stage for Work with Families: Development of the Therapeutic Alliance
3. Assessment of Families
4. Cultural Issues, Family Structure, and Resiliency
Part II: Approaches to Social Work Practice With Families: Introduction to Family Therapy Models
5. Social Learning/Cognitive Family Therapy Models
6. Psychoeducational Family Counseling
7. Structural Family Therapy
8. Solution-Focused Family Therapy
9. Narrative Family Therapy
10. Multisystems Family Therapy
11. Bowen Family Systems Therapy
12. Object Relations Family Therapy
13. Spirituality
Part III: Resiliency-Based Practice Framework Applications
14. Families Coping with Difficult Life Circumstances
15. Conclusion
Appendix: Family Preservation Models
References
Index