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ISBN-13:
9780190656416

Copyright Year:
2015

Imprint: OUP US

Social Work with Families

Content and Process

Robert Constable and Daniel Lee

Series : Lyceum

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.

Preface
References
1. The Strengths of Families and the Practice of Social Work
2. The Relational Person: Differentiation, Attachment, Interdependence
3. The Family Life Cycle, Relational Tasks, Language and Communication
4. Family Interaction and Structure
5. Assessment and Intervention with Families in a Multicultural World
6. Beginning Phases with Couples: Process and Theory
7. Middle Phases with Couples
8. Beginnings and Middle Phases with Families of Two or
More Generations
9. Radical Family Reconstruction: Toward Middle-Phase Work
10. Working Between Families and Outside Social Institutions: Schools, Child Welfare and the Juvenile Court
11. Working Between Families and Outside Social Institutions: Health Care, Mental Health and Community Resource Networks
12. Ending Processes with Families and Evaluation
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Robert Constable (MSW, Loyola University Chicago; DSW, University of Pennsylvania) is professor emeritus in the School of Social Work at Loyola University in Chicago. In addition to his work in academia, he has practiced with families in various settings and in private practice for more than forty years. Professor Constable has published extensively in social work with families, school social work, and in values and ethics in social work.

Daniel B. Lee (MSW, Florida State University; DSW, University of Utah) is professor emeritus in the School of Social Work at Loyola University in Chicago. He has been a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy since 1972. Professor Lee is the founder of the Transcultural Family Institute and co-founder and former president of the Global Awareness Society International and is currently a member of the journal editorial board of NACSW.

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Special Features

Employs a transcultural perspective that assumes cultural diversity as a constant reality of current family practice and provides a bridge for working with couples and families in diverse cultures.
Presents case studies of situations which involve the reader and make the content both teachable and, at the same time, open to different interpretations of the complexity of family life.
Develops theory and practice for work with families in different fields of practice such as school social work, health care, mental health, the judicial system, child welfare and more.