Paradigms of Clinical Social Work

by Rachelle A. Dorfman (Editor)

Overview

This book provokes sociological questions about the expanding number of paradigms of clinical social work and the application of clinical theory. It enhances clinical social workers' ability to make sense of people's lives so that we may help them in their struggles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138005082
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/09/2014
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rachelle A. Dorfman-Zukerman, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong and a 1998-99 recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the National University in Taiwan.
Melinda L. Morgan, Ph.D., LCSW is a lecturer at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist with a private practice in Santa Monica and an NIMH post-doctoral fellow in the psychobiology of psychiatric illness at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital.
Phil Meyer, LCSW us a lecturer at the UCLA Graduate School of Public Policy and Social Research and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private psychotherapy practice in Los Angeles. He is also the Consumer Liaison for the Center for Mental Health Services in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

I: History and Case; 1: Clinical Social Work: The Development of a Discipline; 2: The Case; II: Paradigms; 3: Mental Structures and Personal Relations: Psychodynamic Theory in Clinical Social Work; 4: Adlerian Theory and Therapy; 5: Psychosocial Therapy; 6: Radical Behaviorism and Clinical Social Work; 7: Social Group Work as a Clinical Paradigm; 8: Cognitive Therapy; 9: Brief Task-Centered Treatment; 10: Family Therapy: A Structural Approach; 11: The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Model: An Ideology of Social Functioning; III: Metaparadigms; 12: The Eco-Systems Perspective; 13: Existential Social Work; 14: The Constructivist–Developmental Paradigm; 15: Cybernetic Epistemology; 16: Evolving a Personal Philosophy of Practice: Towards Eclecticism; 17: Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

"Dr. Dorfman has once again produced a volume of significance to the ongoing advancement of theory and practice. Her sensitive understanding of the necessity of an approach to clinical practice built on a premise of theoretical diversity is a welcomed and critically important contribution."

-Francis J. Turner, D.S.W., C.S.W."

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