Description
This timely text draws on interdisciplinary theory and research to examine the multidimensional risk and protective factors for eight challenges of living frequently encountered by social workers. The authors provide a working model for social workers to integrate the most up-to-date evidence about challenges of living they face in their daily practice. Using a multidimensional biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective, the book examines etiology, course, and intervention strategies related to these eight challenges of living.
Table of Contents
1. A Working Model (Elizabeth D. Hutchison)
2. Elements of Knowing and Doing in Social Work (Elizabeth D. Hutchison, Leanne W. Charlesworth, Holly C. Matto, Marcia P. Harrigan, Pamela A. Viggiani)
3. Financial Impoverishment (Pamela Viggiani)
4. Community Violence (Elizabeth D. Hutchison)
5. Child Maltreatment (Leanne W. Charlesworth)
6. Traumatic Stress (Holly C. Matto)
7. Substance Abuse (Holly C. Matto)
8. Obesity (Marcia P. Harrigan)
9. HIV/AIDS (Elizabeth D. Hutchison, Pamela J. Kovacs)
10. Major Depression (Marcia P. Harrigan)
11. Afterword (Elizabeth D. Hutchison)
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