The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups, and Communities [With 2 CDROMs] - 6th Edition Book

Introduction and Underlying Assumptions. Part I: A MODEL OF THE HELPING PROCESS. 1. An Interactional Approach to Helping. 2. Human Behavior and the Social Environment. Part II: SOCIAL WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS. 3. The Preliminary Phase of Work. 4. Beginnings and the Contracting Skills. 5. Skills in the Work Phase. 6. Endings and Transitions. Part III: SOCIAL WORK WITH FAMILIES. 7. The Preliminary and Beginning Phases in Family Practice. 8. The Middle and Ending Phases in Family Practice. 9. Variations in Family Practice. Part IV: SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS. 10. The Preliminary Phase in Group Practice: The Group as a Mutual-Aid System. 11. The Beginning Phase in the Group. 12. The Work Phase in the Group. 13. Working with the Individual and the Group. 14. Endings and Transitions with Groups. Part V: SOCIAL WORK WITH THE SECOND CLIENT: THE AGENCY SYSTEM, THE COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL POLICY PRACTICE. 15. Professional Impact and Helping Clients Negotiate the System. 16. Social Work Practice in the Community. 17. Macro Social Work Practice and Social Policy Change. Part VI: PRACTICE MODELS AND EVIDENCED-BASED PRACTICE. 18. Some Additional Social Work Perspectives and Evidenced-Based Practice. Part VII: THE IMPACT ON PRACTICE OF POLICY, ETHICS AND LEGISLATION. 19. The Impact of Agency Culture, Ethics, Legislation and Evaluation. Glossary. References. Index of Case Examples. Name Index. Subject Index.