Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice: An Integrative Perspective [Hardcover]

Eda Goldstein (Author), Maryellen Noonan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0684844540 | ISBN-13: 978-0684844541 | Publication Date: February 16, 1999

In Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice: An Integrative Perspective, Eda G. Goldstein and Maryellen Noonan take the best of theories that social workers have relied on for decades, including ego psychology, other psychodynamic and psychosocial frameworks, and the cognitive-behavioral approach, to create a new short-term practice model for social workers. Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice introduces the authors' integrative short-term treatment (ISTT), and demonstrates in detail each aspect of the approach. Their book is replete with case examples that illustrate ISTT's principles and techniques and their use in a variety of situations - including crisis intervention, family- and group-oriented therapy, treatment of clients with emotional disorders, and treatment of nonvoluntary and hard-to-reach clients.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Francis J. Turner,

Professor Emeritus, Wilfrid Laurier University

Doctors Goldstein and Noonan have produced a much-needed and critically relevant text of import for practitioners and educators. Short-term treatment, although highly popular, has lacked a firm foundation in theory, and a conceptually sound practice paradigm. This volume presents both. In addition it expands this practice format into a multi-modality base and addresses its application to specialized and challenging client groups in a manner that extends the efficacy of this important contemporary practice strategy.

About the Author

Eda G. Goldstein, D.S.W., author of Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice and Borderline Disorders: Clinical Models and Techniques, is professor and Director of the Ph.D. program in Clinical Social Work at the New York University Shirley M. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, where she chaired the social work practice curriculum area for fourteen years. She is currently consulting editor to the Clinical Social Work Journal and the Journal of Analytic Social Work, and served a term as consulting editor to Social Work. She maintains a private practice with individuals and couples in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Free Press (February 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684844540
• ISBN-13: 978-0684844541
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book that fills a major gap in the field, March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice: An Integrative Perspective (Hardcover)

Drs. Eda Goldtein and Maryellen Noonan are to be congratulated for their extremely helpful book on short-term treatment that applies psychodynamic and psychosocial theories and treatment principles to brief treatment. This is the first social work text that presents an integrative perspective to short-term work that is highly applicable to clients who come for social work services in agency and private practice. The book is user friendly and contains clear guidelines for short-term work and numerous rich case examples. This book is excellent for students and trainees, beginning workers, and for those who are seeking a clearer understanding of short-term treatment with a broad range of clients. The authors have not only given general principles an techniques but have applied these to work with special populations and to family and group modalities. Professors of social work practice will find this book especially helpful. The authors draw on their vast clinical, supervisory, and teaching experience and have given us a book that fills a gap in the field.

3 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the love hulk comes through again, June 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice: An Integrative Perspective (Hardcover)

Scale-denting Eda has written another classic, this time integrating diversity with short-term treatment. Buy it, sit with a box of donuts, and enjoy.