Paradigms of Clinical Social Work

ISBN-13: 9781138009516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 460 str.

Rachelle A. Dorfman;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Designed to mirror how social work theory and practice is taught, Paradigms of Clinical Social Work: Emphasis on Diversity presents new therapeutic models through an imaginary family, the Shores, experiencing problems with mental illness, child abuse, unemployment and marital dysfunction. The case of this family is used to demonstrate essential treatment techniques and concepts, exploring a number of therapeutic approaches ranging from the classic to the cutting-edge. One of the major additions to this volume is its focus on diversity in social work practice. For part of the book, details are added so that the Shores are transformed from a lower-middle class family into another ethnic group. Their case is then re-evaluated and adaptations to the therapeutic paradigms already outlined are discussed.

Spis treści

I: History and Case; 1: Clinical Social Work: The Development of a Discipline; 2: The Case; II: Paradigms; 3: Mental Structures and Personal Relations: Psychodynamic Theory in Clinical Social Work; 4: Adlerian Theory and Therapy; 5: Psychosocial Therapy; 6: Radical Behaviorism and Clinical Social Work; 7: Social Group Work as a Clinical Paradigm; 8: Cognitive Therapy; 9: Brief Task-Centered Treatment; 10: Family Therapy: A Structural Approach; 11: The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Model: An Ideology of Social Functioning; III: Metaparadigms; 12: The Eco-Systems Perspective; 13: Existential Social Work; 14: The Constructivist–Developmental Paradigm; 15: Cybernetic Epistemology; 16: Evolving a Personal Philosophy of Practice: Towards Eclecticism; 17: Epilogue

O autorze

Rachelle A. Dorfman