Prepare for family social work with AN INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY SOCIAL WORK! Providing you with the foundational knowledge and skills needed for family social work, this social work text equips you with the tools you need to succeed. Engaging case studies, end-of-chapter exercises, illustrations, and graphics are just a few of the tools that will help you build your skills and master the material.
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"The three key strengths from my perspective are: The pragmatic, practical approachÂ…; The focus on home-based intervention, including the use of the family preservation modelÂ…; The accessibility: this text is very reader friendlyÂ…"
"The text gives specific examples and guidelines to the reader. In this way, it is very comforting to the student who is new to the field and is looking for "how to" work with families."
"The text gives specific examples and guidelines to the reader. In this way, it is very comforting to the student who is new to the field and is looking for "how to" work with families."
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Dr. Collins is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Calgary. He is also a part-time family therapist, and spent ten years as a volunteer family therapist and supervisor. His research and areas of interest include social work education; social work practice couples, families, and individuals of all ages; child abuse; family violence; teaching and learning issues; program and case level evaluation; and case management. Dr. Collins has authored and co-authored numerous articles and texts.
Dr. Catheleen Jordan is Professor of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she has taught in the master's and doctoral programs since 1985. Her areas of expertise are family assessment and treatment, clinical research, and family-work issues. She currently serves as chair of the Direct Practice Sequence and Secretary of the Board for NASW-Texas. She is co-author of additional texts, including FAMILY PRACTICE: BRIEF SYSTEMS METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK and FAMILY TREATMENT: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE WITH POPULATIONS AT RISK.
Dr. Heather Coleman is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Calgary, and a practicing clinical social worker for more than 15 years. Her research areas include social work education (child and family) and her areas of interest include family violence, family preservation, gender issues, First Nations and addictions, human sexuality, and clinical practice. Dr. Coleman currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and texts.
Dr. Catheleen Jordan is Professor of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she has taught in the master's and doctoral programs since 1985. Her areas of expertise are family assessment and treatment, clinical research, and family-work issues. She currently serves as chair of the Direct Practice Sequence and Secretary of the Board for NASW-Texas. She is co-author of additional texts, including FAMILY PRACTICE: BRIEF SYSTEMS METHODS FOR SOCIAL WORK and FAMILY TREATMENT: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE WITH POPULATIONS AT RISK.
Dr. Heather Coleman is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Calgary, and a practicing clinical social worker for more than 15 years. Her research areas include social work education (child and family) and her areas of interest include family violence, family preservation, gender issues, First Nations and addictions, human sexuality, and clinical practice. Dr. Coleman currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and texts.
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Intro to Fam Social Work,
By Maggie Bookman (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Introduction to Family Social Work (Paperback)
I am very pleased with text; it is a excellent introduction to working with families for the new social worker or social work student. I especially enjoyed how it differentiated between social work and therapy since those two terms often get used interchangeably.
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By Pameli (Kaua'i, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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In my opinion, this poorly edited textbook was extremely unreadable owing to numerous grammatical and spelling errors that distracted me from learning about the concept of family social work, which is different from family therapy (one of the few things I learned from this text). The subject index is not comprehensive or cross-referenced with other subjects - it has spelling errors, too. Other than some useful tools a social worker could use in family social work detailed in some sections of the quantitative and qualitative chapters measurement chapters, I found this book to be a reformulation of ideas co-opted from better-written family therapy texts. The only reason why I will keep this book is to recover the price I paid for it - $90 - and as a SECONDARY reference, if I refer to it at all.
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This book is very reader friendly. It gives a great over view of the material.
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