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This comprehensive resource is the first of its kind in the field of social work. Written by leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it covers the full spectrum of social work practice. Each chapter includes up-to-date information, practice guidelines, and treatment plans necessary for success in today's managed-care environment. Social work practitioners and agency administrators are increasingly confronted with having to do more with less, and to make decisions and provide services as quickly as possible. There is a widespread need for ready access to essential information about effective services and treatment approaches--information that is both reliable and highly accessible. The Social Workers' Desk Reference meets this need for an authoritative sourcebook for social work practitioners. This compelling volume focuses on the needs of frontline practitioners in private, non-profit, and public settings--including case managers, clinical social workers, supervisors, and administrators. Each of the 146 chapters provides key tools and resources, such as best practices, program evaluations, step-by-step treatment plans, and validated assessment scales. It addresses the needs of social workers working in a variety of areas--including assessment and diagnosis, clinical social work, marital and family therapy, community practice, case management, helping vulnerable populations and populations at risk, forensic social work, research, and practice evaluation. Written by expert contributors and guided by a prestigious editorial board, the Social Workers' Desk Reference is not only relevant to, but also a vital resource for practitioners. Just as every medical professional must own a Physicians' Desk Reference, this volume is an indispensable reference for every social worker.

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• Foreword
• Preface
• Contributors
• Part I The Context of Social Work Practice
• 1 Developing Effective Practice Competencies in Managed Behavioral Care
• 2 Social Work in Health Care for the 21st Century: The Biopsychosocial Model
• 3 Social Work in an Era of Managed Care
• 4 Computer Applications for Social Work Practice
• 5 Record-Keeping
• 6 Knowledge is Power: Social Work and the Internet
• 7 The Techniques and Process of Supervisory Practice
• 8 Interdisciplinary Team Practice
• 9 Pathways to Health and Mental Health Care: Guidelines for Culturally-Competent Practice
• 10 Using the Culturagram with Culturally Diverse Families
• Part II Social Work Ethics and Values
• 11 Ethical Issues in Social Work
• 12 Risk Management
• 13 On Being an Accountable Profession: The Code of Ethics, Oversight by Boards of Directors, and Whistle-Blowers as a Last Resort
• 14 Online Social Work: Ethical and Practical Considerations
• Part III Applications of Treatment Approaches in Clinical Social Work
• 15 Frontline Crisis Intervention: Step-by-Step Practice Guidelines with Case Applications
• 16 Fundamentals of Brief Treatment: Principles and Practices
• 17 The Task-Centered Model
• 18 The Life Model
• 19 Psychosocial Therapy
• 20 Solution-Focused Therapy
• 21 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• 22 Narrative Therapy
• 23 The Mental Research Institute Approach to Strategic Therapy
• 24 Feminist Issues and Practices in Social Work
• 25 A Behavioral Approach to Social Work Treatment
• 26 Using Social Constructivism in Social Work Practice
• 27 Gestalt Therapy
• 28 Object Relations Psychology and Psychosocial Intervention
• 29 Using Self Psychology in Clinical Social Work
• 30 Guidelines for Using Transactional Analysis in Clinical Social Work
• Part IV Assessment in Social Work Practice: Knowledge and Skills
• 31 Using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)
• 32 Guidelines for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR) Multiaxial System Diagnosis
• 33 Developing Client-Focused Measures
• 34 Person-in-Environment System: Its Essence and Applications
• 35 How Clinicians Can Effectively Use Assessment Tools to Evidence Medical Necessity and Throughout the Treatment Process
• 36 Guidelines for Conducting a Biopsychosocial Assessment
• 37 Crisis Assessment Tools
• 38 Guidelines for Selecting and Using Assessment Tools with Children
• 39 Assessment Protocols and Rapid Assessment Instruments with Troubled Adolescents
• 40 Assessing Client Strengths
• 41 Using Standardized Tests and Instruments in Family Assessment
• Part V Working with Couples and Families
• 42 Using Genograms to Map Family Patterns
• 43 A Family Resilience Framework for Intervention and Prevention
• 44 Treatment Planning with Families: An Evidence-Based Approach
• 45 Effective Family Therapy: Guidelines for Practice
• 46 Structural Family Therapy
• 47 Strategic Family Therapy
• 48 Bowen Family Systems Therapy
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Library Journal Review

Incorporating recent scientific developments, this update to the 2001 edition, compiled by the late editor in chief Roberts (Visions for Change), adds 75 new chapters. More than 200 field specialists share successful situational approaches across nine subject segments, which thematically organize 171 essay-style chapters. The subjects covered include social workers' functions, ethical codes, field theories, best practices, and practical guidelines. Diagrams and charted chronologies effectively illustrate concepts, while each chapter closes with extensive print and online bibliographical information. Highly recommended. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Roberts (Rutgers) and Greene (Ohio State) have assembled a wonderfully useful reference book. Covering the vast array of practice issues and materials from case management, assessment protocols, and program evaluation tools to psychotropic medications, computer applications, and Internet searching--this source captures the present state of knowledge. Intended for practitioners, it should find equal appreciation from those teaching and learning about social work. The first two sections set the stage, touching on broad contextual issues confronting social work providers. The remaining sections center on practices of frontline practitioners, such as treatment guidelines, step-by-step treatment plans for specific disorders or populations, and outcome measures. Each of the brief, pointed chapters discusses cutting-edge research and program developments, and lists references. All the entries are signed. Aids include a nicely detailed table of contents and an expansive subject index. Much appreciated are see references to the plethora of abbreviations (e.g., OCD--obsessive compulsive disorder), rightly presented in the subject index. Taking its lead from Psychologists' Desk Reference, ed. by Gerald P. Koocher et al. (1998), this work is sure to become a standard for practitioners, teachers, and learners. S. W. Nicholson Michigan State University

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Albert R. Roberts is at Rutgers University. Gilbert J. Greene is at Ohio State University.