New approaches to family practice confronting economic stress

Summary: How do economic stresses on the family - such as dual-earner parents, unemployment, and poverty - affect the human service professional's assessment of the families he or she serves? The field of family sociology is now providing a wealth of empirical knowledge on the impact of macroeconomic issues on the families most frequently helped by social workers. New Approaches to Family Practice takes current research driven by the family systems theoretical framework and applies it to direct practice with families in three specific areas: paid work and family-work, unemployment, and poverty. To illustrate the links from research to practice, the book presents chapters on the theory and research in each of the three target areas, each followed by a chapter on application and tools for direct practice in that area. Individual chapters include case studies, assessment tools, multilevel interventions and evaluations, and strategies for social change.

Record details

ISBN: 9781452248790 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1452248796 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0761900322 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780761900320 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0761900330 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780761900337 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.03.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: social work knowledge building -- Family systems in context: the multilevel social systems model -- Family systems in context: applications and tools for practice -- Families and work: theory and research -- Families and work: applications and tools for practice -- Families and unemployment: theory and research -- Families and unemployment: applications and tools for practice -- Families and poverty: theory and research -- Families and poverty: applications and tools for practice -- Epilogue and conclusions.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.