Full Description
This new edited text presents a "partnership" model and aims to be cutting edge, scholarly, and unambiguously useful and practical. Kia J. Bentley and the other well-known and respected contributors address the need for approachable, immediately useful discipline specific content on the most important social work practice roles in mental health. The book articulates how roles often associated with working with a specific population (e.g. those who abuse substances, persons with severe mental illness, distressed marital couples) are quite relevant and useful in a much wider range of populations.
Contents
1. A Vision of Excellence for Social Work in Contemporary Mental Health Settings, Kia J. Bentley and Melissa Floyd Taylor.
2. Social Workers a Crisis Counselors, Susan Gingerich.
3. Social Workers as Diagnosticians, Jaclyn Miller.
4. Social Workers as Therapists, Joseph Walsh.
5. Social Workers as Mediators, Kevin Corcoran and Mary Ann Dearborn.
6. Social Workers as Educators, Ellen P. Lukens and Kimberly Prchal.
7. Social Work as Skills Trainers, Deborah Gioia-Hasick and John S. Brekke.
8. Social Workers as Case Managers, William Patrick Sullivan and Charles A. Rapp.
9. Social Workers as Medication Facilitators, Rosemary Farmer and Kia. J. Bentley.
10. Social Workers as Consumer and Family Consultants, Phyllis Solomon, Tina Boggart, Edie Mannion, and John Farmer.
11. Social Workers as Collaborators and Interdisciplinary Team Members, Roberta G. Sands and Beth Angell.
12. Social Workers as Advocates and Community Organizers, Shela Silverman.
13. Social Workers as Program Evaluators and Researchers, A. Suzanne Boyd and Wynne S. Korr.
14. Social Workers as Administrators and Policy Analysts, Robert Paulson.
15. Emerging Knowledge and Future Trends in Mental Health: Implications for Social Work, Harriette C. Johnson.