Full Description
This new edition presents an updated version of the art and science of clinical sociologists around the world. Presenting basic clinical sociology diagrams and models, as well as detailed histories of clinical sociology in various countries, it also discusses a wide range of interventions in light of a country's economic, social, political and disciplinary history. This book includes new chapters on South African clinical sociology, climate resilience in the Philippines, children's human rights, gender integration in the military and substance abuse intervention. This book will be of great interest to upper level undergraduate and graduate students in sociology as well as social science practitioners and academics.
Contents
Preface.- Part I: The Essentials.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Jan Marie Fritz).- Chapter 2. The Basics: From Concepts to Models (Jan Marie Fritz).- Part II: Regional Histories.- Chapter 3. The History of Clinical Sociology in the United States (Jan Marie Fritz).- Chapter 4. Clinical Sociology in Québec: When Europe Meets America (Jacques Rhéaume).- Chapter 5. On the Origins of Clinical Sociology in France: Some Milestones (Vincent de Gaulejac).- Chapter 6. Clinical Sociology in Japan (Yuji Noguchi and Hideyo Nakamura).- Chapter 7. The Emergence of Clinical Sociology in South Africa (Tina Uys).- Part III: Selected Applications.- Chapter 8. The Patient's Personal Experience of Schizophrenia in China: A Clinical Sociology Approach to Mental Health (Robert Sevigny).- Chapter 9. Bridging Social Capital: A Clinical Sociology Approach to Substance Use Intervention (Miriam Boeri).- Chapter 10. Children's Human Rights as a Buffer to Extremism: A Clinical Sociology Framework (Yvonne Vissing).-Chapter 11. Clinical Sociology Contributions to the Field of Mediation (Jan Marie Fritz).- Chapter 12. The Art of Facilitation (Jan Marie Fritz).- Chapter 13. Organizational Consulting for Strategic Change in a Public School in Colombia (Fernando de Yzaguirre).- Chapter 14. Climate Resilience Initiative in Metro Manila: Participatory Community Risk Assessment and Power in Community Interventions (Emma Porio).- Chapter 15. The South African Military and Gender Integration: Bridging Theory and Practice (Lindy Heinecken).- Chapter 16. Focus Groups in the Context of International Development: In Pursuit of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals (Janet Mancini Billson).- Index.
