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• Preface
• I Perspectives On Social Work Practice
• 1 Social Work as a Response to Concern/Need
• From Concern to Need
• Need
• Cause-Function Debate
• Common Human Needs
• Social Functioning
• 2 Social Work as a Developing Profession
• Social Work as a Profession
• Development of Social Work Knowledge
• 3 Social Work as a Creative Blending of Knowledge, Values and Skills
• Knowledge
• Values
• Skills
• Creative Blending of Knowledge, Values, and Skills
• 4 Social Work as a Process of Facilitating Growth and Change
• Blending an Ecosystems Strengths Approach with the Problem-Solving Process
• The Natural Process of Growth and Change
• The Stages of the Change Process
• Social Work Practice and the Change Process
• 5 Social Work as an Intervention into Human Transactions
• Intervention
• Transactions as the Focus for Change
• Influence
• Changes Sought by the Social Worker
• II The Interactional Process
• 6 The Worker
• Knowledge of Self
• The Helping Person
• The Multiperson Helping System
• 7 The Client
• Becoming a Client
• Understanding the Individual Client
• Understanding the Multiclient System: The Family
• 8 Environment
• Person in Environment as an Ecosystem
• The Community as a Social System
• Understanding the Agency
• Transactions between Person and Ecosystem
• Working in a Bureaucracy
• 9 Interaction with Individuals
• Formation of a One-to-One Action System
• Relationship
• Communication
• The Interview: An Interactional Tool
• 10 Multiperson Interaction
• The Family as the Fundamental Experience with Multiperson Interaction
• The Family as a Multiperson Client System
• The Small Group as a Social System
• The Social Worker as a Group Member
• The Worker and the Multiperson Client
• The Family Group as a Social System
• III The Social Work Process
• 11 Assessment
• The Content of the Assessment Phase
• The Use of the Change Process in Assessment
• Transactional Assessment
• Needs Assessment
• 12 Planning
• Components of a Plan
• Planning with Multiperson Client Systems
• Factors Affecting a Plan of Action
• Agreement between Worker and Client
• 13 Direct Practice Actions
• Action to Enable Clients to Use Available Resources
• Action in Response to Crisis
• Action That Is Supportive
• Use of Activity as an Interventive Strategy
• Action as Mediation
• 14 Indirect Practice Actions
• Environmental Change
• Involvement of Influentials
• Coordination of Services
• Program Planning and Resource Development
• Changing Organizations from Within
• Cause Advocacy
• 15 Evaluation
• Accountability
• Kinds of Evaluation
• Techniques for Use in Evaluating
• Issues Related to Evaluation
• 16 Termination
• Kinds of Termination
• Planned Termination
• Components of Termination
• Appendix: Models of Social Work Practice
• Glossary
• Author Index
• Subject Index