Case Studies In Social Work Practice - 2nd edition

1. CASE STUDIES IN GENERALIST PRACTICE.

Overview.
Structural Supports: A Generalist Perspective.
Using the Ecological Model in Generalist Practice: Life Transitions in Late Adulthood.
Finding Resources: Case Management with Childhood Chronic Illness.
Strengths-Focused Approach to Community Development.

2. CASE STUDIES IN INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE.

Overview.
Ecologically Oriented, Competence-Centered Social Work Practice.
Social Learning Theory in the Treatment of Phobic Disorders.
Object Relations Marital Therapy: Engaging the Couple.
Toward a Multiple Perspective in Family Theory and Practice: Social Exchange, Symbolic Interactionism, and Conflict Theory.

3. CASE STUDIES IN CHILD AND FAMILY WELFARE.

Overview.
Family Therapy and Child Welfare.
Challenging the Tradition: In Some Families, Violence Is a Way of Life.
Clinical Social Work in a Multidisciplinary Team: An Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Case.
Treatment of Denial in Families Where There Is Child Sex Abuse.

4. CASE STUDIES IN FAMILY THERAPY.

Overview.
Humanizing the Impossible Case: Engaging the Power of a Family-Larger Systems Intervention.
Completing Brad's Dreams.
Homebuilders: Helping Families Stay Together.
Solution-Focused Therapy.
A Family Systems Approach to the Treatment of Codependency.

5. CASE STUDIES IN TREATING ADULT PROBLEMS.

Overview.
Nightshift.
Individual Treatment of Depression Using Cognitive Therapy.
The Win-Win Bind.
Forensic Social Work: A Case of Infidelity, Intoxication, and Homicide.
Jasmika, The Docs, and Me: A Short Story with a Happy Ending About Partnership, Collaboration, Social Work, and Psychiatric Medication.

6. CASE STUDIES IN PREVENTING PROBLEMS AND DEVELOPING RESOURCEFULNESS.

Overview.
The Shelter: Every Day Is a Struggle to Keep the Faith.
The Multimethod Approach to Stress Management.
Friends Don't Really Understand: The Therapeutic Benefit of Social Group Work for Caregivers of Older Persons.
Mediation: An Alternative to the Adversarial Process of Conflict Resolution.
Girls Together: A Social Skills Training Program for Early Adolescent Girls.
Yonkers: A New Tale of Two Cities.

7. CASE STUDIES IN GROUP WORK.

Overview.
A Short-Term Single-Parents' Group.
A Group for Relatives and Friends of Institutionalized Aged.
A Social Skills Group for Children.
Group Work with Men Who Batter.

8. CASE STUDIES IN DIVERSITY.

Overview.
AIDS and the Gay Couple.
Counseling an Interracial Couple.
Dropping Out: A Feminist Approach.
Working with the Urban Poor.
Couple Counseling with Lesbian Women.
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Foster Care: A Short-Term Group Record.

9. CASE STUDIES IN USING PRACTICE EVALUATION.

Overview.
Evaluating the Treatment of a Sexually Assaulted Child.
Doing Family Therapy with an Acting-Out Adolescent: Applying the Empirical Clinical Practice Model.
Practice Evaluation Methods: Practical Variations on a Theme.
An Intensive Case Analysis: Application of the Quasi-Judicial Method.