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A text for a first course in a two-year or four-year undergraduate social work program. Contains sections on background, social problems and social services, methods of social work practice, case vignettes, and special groups, issues, and trends. This fifth edition adds content on managed care, technological change, AIDS, welfare reform, and physician-assisted suicide, and reflects changes in accreditation in the field. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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• Part 1 Background
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Basic Concepts: Social Welfare, Social Work, and Social Services
• 3 Historical Development
• Part 2 Social Problems and Social Services
• 4 Public Welfare and Income Maintenance
• 5 Services to Families and Children in the Home
• 6 Services to Families and Children Outside the Home
• 7 Social Work in the Schools
• 8 Social Services in the Health Care Field
• 9 Mental Health and Social Work
• 10 Social Services and Disabilities
• 11 Social Services and Substance Abuse
• 12 Criminal and Juvenile Justice
• 13 Aging and Social Work
• 14 Occupational Social Work
• 15 Emerging and Less Traditional Contexts of Social Work Practice
• Part 3 Methods of Social Work Practice
• 16 Newer Approaches in Social Work Practice: The Generalist
• 17 Working with Individuals and Families
• 18 Social Work with Groups
• 19 Working with Communities, Thomasine Heitkamp
• 20 Social Service Organizations: Administration and Management
• 21 Social Work Research
• Part 4 Special Groups, Issues, and Trends
• 22 Human Diversity and Empowerment
• 23 Tides and Tensions of the Women's and Men's Movements: Entering a New Millennium
• 24 Housing, Homelessness, and Social Welfare
• 25 Social Development: An International Perspective
• 26 Professionalism, Education, and Personnel in the Social Services
• 27 Social Work: A Futures Perspective