The third edition balances practice theory, skills, and an understanding of diversity and difference in a way that helps the students integrate these things in a single stream. Rather than treating these three things as separate but equal entities, the text brings them together as they are in social work practice reality, a single complex human experience." - Brian Masciadrelli, State University of New York at Fredonia
Thomas O'Hare (MSW, PhD, Rutgers University) is associate professor of social work at Boston College. He has published widely on co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in young adults and on trauma and substance abuse in people with serious mental illnesses.