Social workers' desk reference

People all over the world are confronted by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and/or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services on a daily basis. Due to these issues, there is a need for social workers who have access to relevant and timely scholarly materials in order to meet the needs of those facing these issues. This third edition responds to the changes occurring in society and how they are impacting the education, research, and practice of social work as a whole. Each chapter is short and contains practical information in addition to websites and updated references. Social work practitioners, educators, students, and other allied professionals can utilize the Social Workers' Desk Reference to gain interdisciplinary and interprofessional education, practice, and research.

People all over the world are confronted by issues such as poverty, a lack of access to quality education, unaffordable and or inadequate housing, and a lack of needed health and mental services on a daily basis. Due to these issues, there is a need for social workers who have access to relevant and timely scholarly materials in order to meet the needs of those facing these issues. The social, psychological, and biological factors resulting from these issues determine the level of a person's mental health at any given point in time and it is necessary for social workers to continue to evolve an understanding of the rapidly changing field of social work.--Publisher information.

pt. I. Overview and introduction to social work. 1. What changes and what remains in a practice profession / Elizabeth Clark ; 2. Professional socialization: on becoming and being a social worker / Shari Miller.

pt. II. Roles, functions, and fields of social work practice. 3. Evidence-based social work practice with children and adolescents / Alison Salloum and Lisa Rapp-McCall ; 4. Overview of alcohol and drug dependence: identification, assessment and treatment / Kenneth R. Yeager ; 5. School social work / Robert Lucio ; 6. Social work practice and leadership / Michael J. Holosko ; 7. Essentials of private practice / Raymond D. Fox ; 8. Social work practice and the Affordable Care Act / Stephen Gorin, Julie S. Darnell and Christina M. Andrews ; 9. Social work practice in home-based services / Martha Morrison Dore and Charlene Zuffante ; 10. Social work practice in disasters / Daphne S. Cain ; 11. Victim services / Karen S. Knox ; 12. Social work in domestic violence services / Brandy Macaluso and Diane L. Green Sherman ; 13. Traumatic stress and emergency services / Ted Bober ; 14. Military social work / Allen Rubin and James G. Daley ; 15. Military social work in the community…