Focuses on methods for enhancing family participation in medical care and for reducing the adverse effects of illness on family functioning. Serves as an aid for practicing social workers, presenting methods of assessing the individual case and a framework for working with families during the planni
Focuses on methods for enhancing family participation in medical care and for reducing the adverse effects of illness on family functioning. Serves as...
When a family's problems become so severe that traditional community resources are unable to help them effectively, caseworkers are usually advised to place children outside the home. Family preservation services such as Homebuilders are designed to give caseworkers and families another option: services that are more intensive, accessible, flexible, and goal-oriented than conventional supports. Instead of relieving family pressure by removing a child, the approach described here adds resources to alleviate pressure and to facilitate the development of a nurturing environment for children...
When a family's problems become so severe that traditional community resources are unable to help them effectively, caseworkers are usually advised...
When a family's problems become so severe that traditional community resources are unable to help them effectively, caseworkers are usually advised to place children outside the home. Family preservation services such as Homebuilders are designed to give caseworkers and families another option: services that are more intensive, accessible, flexible, and goal-oriented than conventional supports. Instead of relieving family pressure by removing a child, the approach described here adds resources to alleviate pressure and to facilitate the development of a nurturing environment for children...
When a family's problems become so severe that traditional community resources are unable to help them effectively, caseworkers are usually advised...
Broadly speaking there are two kinds of professional practice skills relevant to the burgeoning field of gerontological human service: clinical modalities and macro strategies. This book identifies seven essential approaches to clinical gerontology, including five of the most important macro skills that all professionals in the field will need to acquire, and it presents each of them in a single collection intended to serve as a basic text and reference work for academic and in-service training.
Each contributor to this volume speaks with recognized expertise on his/her preferred subject,...
Broadly speaking there are two kinds of professional practice skills relevant to the burgeoning field of gerontological human service: clinical modali...
"Garbarino and his colleagues have done the social welfare fi eld a service.... they provide a useful and integrative schema for understanding child development.... Practice examples abound at both micro and macro levels. New material on cultural diversity, neighborhood and community factors, and public policy make this volume an even more attractive option for course in human behavior and social environment."-from the foreword by James K. Whittaker.
"Garbarino and his colleagues have done the social welfare fi eld a service.... they provide a useful and integrative schema for understanding child d...
