The Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy (Haworth Social Work Practice)

The Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy presents a multi-systems approach to family therapy that teaches the therapist important self-differentiating capacities that set the tone for creating a powerful therapeutic atmosphere. While the model demands no specific treatment procedures, it does rely on the therapist’s capacity to adhere to its basic ideas, as she/he is the most vital factor in the model’s success.In The Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy, Author Donald R. Bardill encourages the therapist to be the learning vehicle for the integration of the four realities of life (self, other, context, spiritual) and the differentiating process that is necessary for human survival, safety, and growth. Understanding this model allows therapists to lead clients to heightened self-awareness and the realization of their human potential--both important factors for intellectual growth, emotional maturity, and problem solving. To this end, readers learn about: 
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<li>the self-differentiating therapist--the person-of-the-therapist is the crucial variable in an effective family treatment process </li>
<li>the facing process--the client faces such issues as self-identity, life-purpose, thought and behavior patterns, emotionalized fears, and the future </li>
<li>emotionalized right/wrong--focus is on consequences of actions rather than right/wrong judgments in relationship issues </li>
<li>life stances--the uniqueness of the individual affects their connection to the life realities </li>
<li>family grid--a way for the therapist to organize and talk about important family systems dynamics </li>
<li>the therapeutic paradox--the client’s worldview is examined through the therapist’s worldview and a new worldview is formedThe Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy is an important handbook for practitioners and students in the fields of clinical social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, counseling psychology, pastoral counseling, and psychiatric nursing. The book is also useful as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate classes and postgraduate seminars in family therapy and family counseling. The self-differentiation nature of the content also lends this book useful to self-help readers. </li>
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The Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy: Living in the Four Realities (Haworth Social Work Practice)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Munson, Carlton

Bardill, D Ray

Mental Health

Routledge

Celebrating Diversity: Coexisting in a Multicultural Society, offers pragmatic ways to replace conflictive behaviors between diverse peoples with coexistence alternatives. Coexistence-partnership values and skills help us to outgrow ways of the past--competition, suspicion, manipulation, isolation, victimization. These skills enhance our own lives as well as those of future generations.In Celebrating Diversity, author Benyamin Chetkow-Yanoov asserts that the increasing religious-ethnic-linguistic pluralisms of the twentieth century requires that we cease lumping people different from ourselves into an “other” category. He identifies classical elements of a coexistence model and suggests various strategies and tactics for implementing coexistence in modern societies. Among the many insights you will find are: the definition of coexistence an analysis of past patterns of majority-minority group relations, such as segregation, tolerance, and integration models of majority-minority relations, participation, and coexistence appropriate for the twenty-first century illustrations of the coexistence model through examples of places where it is flourishing action steps for leaders and citizens to put the idea of coexistence into practice a range of research findings that help us determine what is effective in promoting coexistenceIn the pages of Celebrating Diversity, you can learn social skills for preventing conflict escalation, for finding areas of common interest, and for working cooperatively. As more of us become informed about alternatives to violence, hopefully we can find ways to bring peace to areas of unrest, such as Algeria, Ireland, Israel, Nigeria, Rwanda, Serbia, or the former Soviet Union.

Celebrating Diversity: Coexisting in a Multicultural Society

Chetkow-Yanoov, B Harold

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Social Work Practice in the Military

Social Work Practice in the Military provides military social workers, military scholars, and civilian social workers with an overview of diverse practice settings as well as the history and future of military social work practice to give you an understanding of the military persona as an ethnic identity. This unique book provides in-depth coverage of issues such as family violence, substance abuse, medical social work, combat settings, ethical dilemmas, managed care's impact on the military, and much more. Social Work Practice in the Military is an essential guide for anyone working with military clients, families of military personnel, or near a military installation. This valuable book contains input from top current and past leaders within the ranks of military social workers to bring you a wide spectrum of firsthand ideas and input to help you better assist your military clients.Social Work Practice in the Military will help you better understand the diversity of social work practice within the military and the many unique situations a military social worker must face. This informative book will provide you with specific ways of improving the lives of your military clients and their families, such as: 
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<li>understanding how the most rapidly expanding arena of practice, family advocacy, which includes a broad array of family violence prevention and intervention services, can help military clients </li>
<li>learning how TRICARE, the military managed health care program, impacts military families and social workers in order to provide your clients with the best care while working within the limited budget of a managed care program </li>
<li>analyzing the historical discussions of the changing view of substance abuse treatment within the military and how you can best provide effective, multilevel services to your clients </li>
<li>examining the extensive involvement of military social workers in a myriad of medical social work programs serving patients and families to help you offer the best patient care in situations involving domestic violence and drug abuse </li>
<li>discovering essential skills for military social workers, such as, effective involvement in combat or deployed situations </li>
</ul>Through Social Work Practice in the Military, you will better understand the importance of your many roles as clinician, advocate, policymaker, resource liaison, and organizational consultant and learn how to successfully accomplish every one of these roles. Containing insight into the future directions of practice, this valuable book will help you effectively assist military clients and their families with the various challenges they face.

Daley, James G.

Social Work Practice in the Military provides military social workers, military scholars, and civilian social workers with an overview of diverse practice settings as well as the history and future of military social work practice to give you an understanding of the military persona as an ethnic identity. This unique book provides in-depth coverage of issues such as family violence, substance abuse, medical social work, combat settings, ethical dilemmas, managed care's impact on the military, and much more. Social Work Practice in the Military is an essential guide for anyone working with military clients, families of military personnel, or near a military installation. This valuable book contains input from top current and past leaders within the ranks of military social workers to bring you a wide spectrum of firsthand ideas and input to help you better assist your military clients.Social Work Practice in the Military will help you better understand the diversity of social work practice within the military and the many unique situations a military social worker must face. This informative book will provide you with specific ways of improving the lives of your military clients and their families, such as: 
<ul>
<li>understanding how the most rapidly expanding arena of practice, family advocacy, which includes a broad array of family violence prevention and intervention services, can help military clients </li>
<li>learning how TRICARE, the military managed health care program, impacts military families and social workers in order to provide your clients with the best care while working within the limited budget of a managed care program </li>
<li>analyzing the historical discussions of the changing view of substance abuse treatment within the military and how you can best provide effective, multilevel services to your clients</li>
</ul>

Smart But Stuck / OUT OF PRINT: What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Learning Disabilities and Imprisoned Intelligence

Uncover the powerful potential that learning disabilities can conceal!Having a learning disability (LD) can be lonely, frightening, and frustrating. The available information is sparse, technically oriented, and resolutely uninformative on how it feels to have an LD. Smart But Stuck changes all that. The first book on the emotional aspects of having an LD, it offers twenty case studies and other research to help you see that you are not alone. This groundbreaking book discusses why and how intelligent individuals with learning disabilities are misunderstood and how shame and fear can lead to imprisoned intelligence. Smart But Stuck helps those who struggle with learning disabilities (and the people who help them) build self-esteem, face LD obstacles, bypass weaknesses, and enhance strengths.Smart But Stuck elaborates on new research about imprisoned intelligence and the emotional consequences of learning disabilities, enabling readers to: 
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<li>understand what it's like growing up being smart but feeling stupid </li>
<li>discover how shame influences the learning process </li>
<li>understand what happens when smart people grow up suffering from learning gaps </li>
<li>learn how to find a therapist and what to expect in treatment </li>
<li>create a successful, productive life and even use their learning disabilities to their own advantageSmart But Stuck integrates a vast amount of research and presents it in an understandable way to help people gain their freedom from imprisoned intelligence. In Smart But Stuck, people with LDs will find effective methods to help themselves unlock their full potential, while therapists, teachers, and family members will find new ways to understand and help individuals with LDs. </li>
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Orenstein, Myrna

Psychology & Counseling

Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective

Learn effective social work skills and interventions that work in health care settings from primary care to hospice!With the aging of the American populace and the rise of managed care, social workers are forced to cope with a whole new world of health care issues. Social Work in the Health Field is an up-to-date, in-depth guide to the most recent issues, policies, and opportunities in this vital area of social work. In a world of changing expectations and constantly shifting roles, Social Work in the Health Field helps you and your students define the core requirements and new opportunities of social work. Its well-structured discussions and practical advice will help you respond to the demands of the growing population of clients in nursing homes or hospice care and the decline of traditional hospital-based social work.Each chapter discusses the essential aspects of social work in different health-care settings, including:
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<li>historical background </li>
<li>theoretical perspectives </li>
<li>interdisciplinary teamwork </li>
<li>organizational considerations </li>
<li>client problems and social worker functions </li>
<li>skill and knowledge requirements </li>
<li>values and ethics considerationsComplete with an instructor's manual to help you facilitate lectures, class discussions, and tests, Social Work in the Health Field provides social work educators and undergraduate and graduate students with a complete overview of recent developments and practices in the field. Current and practical, this book covers key issues affecting social work in health care today and provides insight into the future of social work. </li>
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Medical Books

Cowles, Lois A

Allied Health Professions

A central premise of cognitive-behavior therapy is that individuals bring themselves to their emotions and behavior by how they think. Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy helps therapists and counselors address the important questions of cognitive-behavior therapy--what to ask, how to respond to difficult exchanges with clients, and why to make chosen responses--and helps them get at the cognitive base of clients’emotional disturbances more quickly. The book is unique in that it presents more than a textbook approach to problemsolving; it provides a wealth of data and philosophy that enables clinicians to respond more helpfully to client problems. Readers of Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy learn what therapeutic questions to ask and what responses to give to psychotherapy clients’common difficult questions and statements in ways that better contribute to the long-range happiness and survival of the client. This insightful book encourages therapists to help clients help themselves by showing therapists effective, detailed, responses that help clients answer their own questions and come to their own conclusions about why they react certain ways to specific situations. Among the 164 troublesome client questions and statements to which Borcherdt offers rational responses are: 
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<li>“But I don't feel like it.” 
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<li>“I can't make a decision, because I don't know if it is the right one.” 
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<li>“Why won't things work out for me?” 
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<li>“I can't help it.” 
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<li>“I have so many problems and feelings that I don't know where to begin dealing with them.” 
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<li>“Why don't I change? Why do I keep goofing up?” 
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<li>“Whose side are you on anyway?”Through this detailed look at the therapist's role in heightening client awareness of self, Author Bill Borcherdt, who has thirty years’experience as a therapist, provides a storehouse of practical, hands-on tact and tactics which encourages a problem-solving focus while preventing conversational drifting. He gives readers insights on: 
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<li>basic principles of emotional reeducation and well-being 
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<li>psychotherapy as teaching 
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<li>overcoming emotional disturbance tendencies 
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<li>getting individuals to answer their own questions so they can expose their own potential solutions 
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<li>understanding and overcoming clients’resistance to change 
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<li>a client-centered method of problem-solving interviewingThe book illustrates that the primary medium of the therapist's influence is funneled through both direct questions asked of the client and through the therapist's responses to client questions and commentary. Suggested questions and responses in the book help practitioners prepare for interviews and better understand clients’resistance to change. Designed for students in training as well as the beginning or seasoned practitioner, Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy includes 172 rational questions and 164 rational responses, each with commentary that shows the clinical justifications for asking these questions and offering these responses.Social workers, psychologists, guidance counselors, psychiatrists, nurses in mental health settings, marital/family counselors, alcohol and other drug abuse counselors, and other human service professionals will find Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy filled with practical and insightful guidelines for better helping their psychotherapy clients.</li>
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Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Children's Rights: Policy and Practice

Gain insight into the practical realities and theoretical conflicts of ensuring a safe childhood for all!This comprehensive appraisal of children's rights encompasses legal, psychological, sociological, policy, and child advocacy issues. Children's Rights: Policy and Practice addresses the situation of minors at home, at school, in foster care, and in residential facilities. Throughout the book, the author clearly presents the practical and ethical dilemmas inherent in balancing a child's right to self-determination against the same child's need to be protected.Children's Rights begins with a concise history of the children's liberation and child protective movements and the legislation and court decisions they spawned. It analyzes how these rights compete with parents’rights, legitimate government concerns, and socioeconomic realities. The chapter on advocacy offers effective new strategies and little-known legal precedents that give a much-needed advantage to parents battling to ensure the educational rights of children with special needs.Children's Rights offers in-depth discussion of the essential issues, including:  the causes of abuse and neglect  help for families at risk  techniques for case and cause advocacy  children’s rights in schools and day care  the role and function of child protective services and the juvenile justice system  family and individual therapy  effective social policy to protect and care for childrenBalancing theoretical considerations, solid information, and practical advice, Children's Rights is an essential resource for child welfare workers, attorneys, academicians, parents, and social workers.

Politics & Social Sciences

Pardeck, Jean A.

Social Sciences

Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore. Guide to learning and applying the DSM-IV system. Provides data on culture-bound syndromes and gives a detailed example of how to do a cultural formulation. For beginning and seasoned mental health professionals. Softcover, hardcover also available. DNLM: Mental Disorders--classification--Handbooks.

The Mental Health Diagnostic Desk Reference: Visual Guides and More for Learning to Use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV)

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Books by Munson, Carlton

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The Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy: Living in the Four Realities (Haworth Social Work Practice)

Celebrating Diversity: Coexisting in a Multicultural Society

Social Work Practice in the Military

Social Work Practice in the Military

Smart But Stuck / OUT OF PRINT: What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Learning Disabilities and Imprisoned Intelligence

Smart But Stuck / OUT OF PRINT: What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Learning Disabilities and Imprisoned Intelligence

Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective

Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Children's Rights: Policy and Practice

The Mental Health Diagnostic Desk Reference: Visual Guides and More for Learning to Use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV)