Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice: An Integrative Perspective (Hardcover)

by Eda Goldstein (Author), Maryellen Noonan (Author) "Mental health professionals in a variety of disciplines are using short-term methods in their practice more than ever before..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
Carolyn Saari, Ph.D.,

Professor School of Social Work, Loyola University, Chicago, and Editor, Clinical Social Work Journal

Educators and clinicians alike will find Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice to be both a very timely book in relation to current pressures for more brief treatment and very useful in its provision of an integrated perspective on this work. The book is an excellent text for beginners whether these are students or practitioners venturing into this modality for the first time.

Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D.

Professor, Wayne State University School of Social Work

Eda Goldstein and Maryellen Noonan have performed a great service to the profession of social work and its clientele. Their model, while remaining faithful to the guiding principles of social work practice, offers a vital approach to time-sensitive treatment in a professional climate transformed by the reality of limited resources and the dicta of managed health care. Destined to take its place among such brief-treatment classics as Perlman's Social Casework: A Problem-Solving Approach and Alexander and French's Psychoanalytic Therapy, this volume is essential reading for social workers at all levels of clinical practice.

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.

Product Description
The growing need for time-limited treatment, propelled by the widening influence of managed care in the mental health field, has produced a renewed focus on short-term therapy. But, until now, there has not been an integrated framework designed for the short-term intervention problems and diverse populations that social workers encounter.

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.

As the first social work textbook describing an integrated framework for short-term treatment and practice, Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice fills a void the mental health field. Offering a comprehensive, practical, in-depth discussion, this book promises to become a vital new resource for students and practitioners alike.

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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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #127,243 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 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

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 10 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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.