Full Description
Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. From monitoring the health of older populations to managing paroled offenders, preventing child abuse, and reunifying families, home-based services require models that ensure positive outcomes and address the ethical dilemmas that might arise in such sensitive contexts. The contributors to this volume are national experts in diverse fields of social work practice, policy, and research. Treating the home as an ecological setting that guides human development and family interaction, they present rationales for and overviews of evidence-based models across an array of populations and fields of practice. Part 1 provides historical background and contemporary applications for home-based services, highlighting ethical, administrative, and supervision issues and summarizing the social policies that shape service delivery.
Part 2 addresses home-based practice in such fields as child and adult mental health, school social work, and hospice care, detailing the particular population being treated, the policy and agency context, theories and empirical data, and practice guidelines. Part 3, the editors present a unifying framework and suggest future directions for home-based social work.
Contents
Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Historical and Current Context, by Susan F. Allen and Elizabeth M. Tracy 2. Ethical Issues and Guidelines, by Kimberly Strom-Gottfried 3. Administrative Supports and Practices, by Kristine Nelson 4. Social Policy Context, by Cathleen A. Lewandowski and Katharine Briar-Lawson Part II: Home-Based Services in Social Work Fields of Practice 5. Early Childhood Programs, by Susan F. Allen 6. School-Based Services, by Cynthia Franklin and Christine Lagana-Riordan 7. Child Welfare, by Cathleen A. Lewandowski and Katharine Briar-Lawson 8. Child Mental Health, by Mary Armstrong 9. Criminal Justice, by Jose B. Ashford 10. Adult Mental Health, by Patrick Sullivan 11. Older Adult Services, by Kathryn Betts Adams 12. Hospice and End-of-Life Care, by Ellen Csikai Part III: Conclusion 13. Conclusions and Considerations for the Future, by Elizabeth M. Tracy and Susan F. Allen Appendix: Organizations Associated with Home-Based Programs, Research, or Policies List of Contributors Index
