Social Work with Families illustrates how social work practice can identify, utilize, build upon, and reinforce the unique strengths of families to help family systems become more effective in the face of certain challenges. Constable and Lee integrate the most recent developments in theory, technique, and research into the century-old tradition of social work practice with families and couples. They have developed a clear, flexible, strengths-based approach that accommodates family and individual intervention and multiple methodologies, as well as the social institutional contexts in which social workers practice. This new edition focuses on the current trends in family therapy and explores the possibilities of broadening the scope of services that social workers can provide to families and couples in all settings.

Social Work with Families: Content and Process

Politics & Social Sciences

Lee, Daniel

Constable, Robert

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research has been a foundational guide to the profession for over 40 years. Featuring 30 readings divided into five parts, this best-selling text reflects the many ways that school social work practice impacts academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for both youths and the broader school community. The essays include selections from both pioneers in the field and newcomers who address the remarkable changes and growing complexities of the profession. The ninth edition of School Social Work features a stronger focus on evidence informed practice and adds substantial new content related to antiracist practice and trauma-informed care. It retains the holistic model of school social work practice that has informed all previous editions of this cornerstone text, making it a relevant and vital resource for today's practitioners and students as schools grapple with how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

School Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research

Kelly, Michael S.

Massat, Carol Rippey

The authors draw upon the contributions of family therapy, symbolic interactionist social psychology, as well as a century's tradition of social work with families. Without duplicating existing compendia of family therapy methods, they develop a clear, flexible approach, which accommodates family and individual intervention and multiple methodologies, as well as the social institutional contexts where social workers work. Key concepts developed to integrate the various theory bases are process and content. Process is an interaction sequence, taking place between family members at different stages of family development, and with the social worker. Content reflects the purposes of the intervention, helping family members to reconstruct relationships.

Social Work With Families: Content and Process

Lee, Daniel B.

Lyceum Books

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