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• Each chapter ends with Summary
• 1 Origins of a Diverse Profession
• Social Workers on the Job
• Values and the Profession
• Knowledge for Social Work Practice
• Defining Social Work
• Functions of Social Work Practice
• Roots of the Profession
• Roots of American Social Work
• Emergence of a Profession
• Social Work's Conservative Origins
• Social Work and Related Professions
• Overview
• 2 Educating and Credentialing Social Workers
• Controversies in the History of Social Work Education
• Current Curriculum Guidelines
• Structure of Social Work Education
• Membership Organizations
• Licensure and Certification: Protection for Whom?
• Status and the Profession
• 3 In Search of Social Work Theory
• What is a Theory?
• Evaluating Theories
• Toward a Social Work Theory
• Ideological Perspectives on Social Work Practice
• 4 A New Look at Traditional Social Work Methods: Positioning the Profession for the Future
• The Generalist Model
• Social Casework
• Social Work Practice with Groups
• Community Organization Practice
• 5 Contemporary Social Work Methods: Beyond Direct Practice
• Emergence of Macropractice Methods
• Social Work Administration
• Policy as a Practice Method
• Radical Social Work Practice
• Research and Evaluation Practice
• 6 Social Work's Response to Mental Illness
• History of Mental Health Services
• The Scope of Mental Health Problems
• Community Mental Health Services
• Social Workers and Mental Health Practice
• Mental Health and the Competing Professions
• Ethnic Minorities, Women, and Mental Health Care
• The Rights of Clients with Mental Illness
• Future of Social Work in the Mental Health Fields
• 7 New Directions in Social Work's Response to Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
• Sin, Crime, or Disease?
• AODA Problems and Social Work Practice
• Causalities of the War on Drugs
• Future Directions
• 8 Meeting the Crisis in Health Care
• Basic Premises and Goals of Social Work in Health Care
• Knowledge, Skills, and Values
• Health Care Policy
• Good Health and Medical Care: The Missing Link
• Health Care for the Poor and Minorities
• Health Care Reform
• Social Work in Health Care Settings
• Future of Health Social Work
• Future of the Public's Health
• 9 Developmental Disabilities: Striving Toward Inclusion
• What are Developmental Disabilities?
• Social Concern and Mental Retardation
• Contemporary Social Policy and Developmental Disabilities
• Case Management: Knowledge, Skills, and Values
• Aged People with Mental Retardation
• Social Workers in the Developmental Disability Field
• Future Trends and Directions
• 10 Services to Vulnerable Children and Their Families
• The Need for a System
• Development of Children's Services
• Current Services to Children
• Services to Children Outside Their Homes
• 11 Social Work Faces the Graying of America
• The Faces of Older Americans
• Services for Older Americans
• Models of Service
• The Graying Concerns of Social Work
• The Makings of a Gerontological Social Worker