Theory & Practice in Clinical Social Work / Edition 2

by Jerrold R. Brandell

Overview

This thoroughly updated resource is the only comprehensive anthology addressing frameworks for treatment, therapeutic modalities, and specialized clinical issues, themes, and dilemmas encountered in clinical social work practice. Editor Jerrold R. Brandell and other leading figures in the field present carefully devised methods, models, and techniques for responding to the needs of an increasingly diverse clientele.

Key Features

• Coverage of the most commonly used theoretical frameworks and systems in social work practice
• Entirely new chapters devoted to clinical responses to terrorism and natural disasters, clinical case management, neurobiological theory, cross-cultural clinical practice, and research on clinical practice
• Completely revised chapters on psychopharmacology, dynamic approaches to brief and time-limited clinical social work, and clinical practice with gay men
• Content on the evidentiary base for clinical practice
• New, detailed clinical illustrations in many chapters offering valuable information about therapeutic process dimensions and the use of specialized methods and clinical techniques

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412981385
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/16/2010
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	859
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D., BCD is Distinguished Professor and Coordinator, Doctoral Concentration in Clinical Scholarship, Wayne State University School of Social Work (Detroit), where he has taught since 1992. He has held visiting professorships at the Zurich Höchschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (Switzerland), Lund University (Sweden) and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and has led workshops and lectured widely on clinical topics in the United States and abroad. A practicing child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst, he is the author or editor of twelve books, including Countertransference in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (1992). Psychodynamic Social Work (Columbia, 2004), and Essentials of Clinical Social Work (2014). He is the (Founding) Editor of Psychoanalytic Social Work, and also serves on several other editorial boards. Recognized as a distinguished practitioner by the National Academies of Practice, he maintains a part-time practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Second Edition - Faye Mishna
Foreword to the First Edition - Herbert S. Strean
Introduction to the Second Edition - Jerrold R. Brandell
PART I: FRAMEWORKS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
Ch 1. System Theory - Bruce Friedman, Karen M. Neuman
Ch 2. Behavioral and Cognitive Theories - Bruce Thyer, Laura M. Myers
Ch 3. Psychoanalytic Theory - Fredric Perlman, Jerrold R. Brandell
Ch 4. Neurobiology and Clinical Social Work
PART II: SPECIFIC TREATMENT MODALITIES
Ch 5. Clinical Practice With Children - Alan J. Levy, Margaret G. Frank
Ch 6. Clinical Social Work With Adolescents - Randolph Lucente, Judith M. Mishne
Ch 7. Family Therapy - Froma Walsh
Ch 8. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy With Adults - Donald Granvold
Ch 9. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy With Adults - Fredric T. Perlman
Ch 10. Couples Therapy - Karen Kayser
Ch 11. Group Treatment of Children and Adolescents - Joan Lesser
Ch 12. Group Treatment With Adults - Charles D. Garvin
PART III: SPECIALIZED CLINICAL ISSUES, THEMES, DILEMMAS
Ch 13. The Challenge of Clinical Work With Survivors of Trauma - Roberta Graziano
Ch 14. Clinical Social Work in Situations of Disaster and Terrorism - Martha Bragin
Ch 15. Clinical Practice With Older Adults - Harriet Haliparn Soares, Madeleine Rose, Renee Feiger
Ch 16. Interpersonal Violence and Clinical Practice - Louise R. Presley
Ch 17. Clinical Social Work With Depressed Clients - Olga Mikhailova, Jo Nol
Ch 18. Dynamic Approaches to Brief and Time-Limited Clinical Social Work - Jerrold R. Brandell
Ch 19. Social Work Interventions With Alcohol and Other Drug Problems - Maryann Amodeo, Lúz Lopez
Ch 20. Clinical Case Management - Joel Kanter
Ch 21. Clinical Practice With Gay Men - Steve Cadwell
Ch 22. Clinical Practice With Lesbians - Eda G. Goldstein
Ch 23. Treatment of Infants and Their Families - Ramona Rukstele
Ch 24. Mourning and Loss: A Life Cycle Perspective - Margaret O'Kane Brunhofer
Ch 25. Cross-Cultural Clinical Social Work Practice - Marian Bogo, A. Ka Tat Tsang, Eunjung Lee
Ch 26. Researching Clinical Practice - James Drisko
Ch 27. Clinical Social Work in Urban School Settings - Phyllis I. Vroom, Lenora Stanfield, Roxanne Barzone
Ch 28. Psychopharmacology and Clinical Social Work Practice - David Cohen
About the Editor
About the Authors
Name Index
Subject Index