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Print Price: $153.99

Format:
Paperback
152 mm x 229 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190616007

Copyright Year:
2009

Imprint: OUP US

Empowering Vulnerable Populations

Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions

Mary Keegan Eamon

Series : Lyceum

Empowering Vulnerable Populations is the first source book for cognitive-behavioral interventions used with vulnerable populations. The book presents and evaluates a broad range of CB interventions that assist vulnerable populations in attaining empowerment-related goals. The author demonstrates the consistency of CB applications with an empowerment perspective, the importance of CB intervention methods, and the need for continued research on how these methods can assist vulnerable groups in attaining empowerment outcomes.

Readership : Graduate and undergraduate students in social work, social welfare, human services, and related fields.

Reviews

"Very well researched and very relevant to social work practice . . . The overview of cognitive-behavioral interventions is concise, clear, and very easy to understand."
--Nancy Fitzsimons, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tables
About the Author
Preface
PART ONE Vulnerable Populations, Cognitive-Behavioral Methods, and Empowerment
1. Vulnerable Populations
2. Cognitive-Behavioral Theory and Methods
3. Empowerment and Cognitive-Behavioral Methods
PART TWO Accessing and Increasing Social Resources
4. Enhancing Social Interactions
5. Increasing Leisure, Recreational, and Related Activity
6. Recruiting Assistance to Enhance Personal Well-Being
PART THREE Acquiring and Increasing Economic Resources
7. Obtaining Employment
8. Maintaining and Advancing in Employment
9. Accessing Public and Private Sources of Economic Resources
PART FOUR Increasing Self-Determination
10. Enhancing Personal Control and Input into Decision Making
11. Increasing Choice Making in Daily and Long-Term Decisions
12. Securing Legal and Personal Rights
PART FIVE Increasing Involvement in Macro Decision Making and Summary
13. Changing Social Policies and Community and Organizational Practices
14. Summary, Practice Implications, and Future Research
References
Index

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Mary Keegan Eamon (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MSW, University of Iowa) is an experienced practitioner as well as an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She teaches courses on cognitive-behavioral interventions and practice methods and has written many journal articles regarding the effects of poverty on the well-being of children and families.

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Special Features

Provides multiple examples of CB interventions that help vulnerable clients achieve empowerment goals.
Allows readers to easily find appropriate interventions.
Provides the interventions in enough detail (or refers the reader to relevant resources and information) to carry out the interventions.
Addresses criticisms regarding alleged contradictions between CB methods and empowerment and social justice.
Provides additional suggestions for practice and research.