Home-visiting strategies : a case-management guide for caregivers / Terry Eisenberg Carrilio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrilio, Terry Eisenberg.

Series:

Social problems and social issues (Columbia, S.C.)

Social problems and social issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home-based family services--United States.

Home-based family services.

Family social work--United States.

Family social work.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 153 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2007]

Summary:

Rich with proven, practical advice, Home-Visiting Strategies is a step-by-step guide for in-home case management of vulnerable populations that without direct visits might not receive needed interventions. Drawing on her decades of experience in direct caregiving and classroom instruction of social workers, Terry Eisenberg Carrilio offers a useful primer for students and practitioners in establishing and maintaining the type of intervention program that has proved especially effective in preventing abuse and providing support to over-burdened families. This sourcebook covers the range of cases-involving child welfare, mental health, substance abuse, aging, domestic violence, family support, poverty reduction, and school readiness-encountered as part of home-visiting programs.

Carrilio offers a pragmatic approach to the case-management process that enables home visitors to maintain structure and focus. She describes effective tools for reaching vulnerable populations, reviews theoretical and research support for the case-management approach, and identifies the organizational and administrative considerations necessary to build a sustained program.

Throughout the volume, Carrilio encourages home visitors to take a proactive approach and to keep the conceptual model for home visiting clearly in focus. She walks home visitors through each step in the case-management process: engagement, assessment, planning, plan implementation, and termination. Of particular value are the suggestions Carrilio shares about handling issues that commonly arise at each stage of the home-visiting process.

Contents:

Home visiting : a family-support strategy

Home visiting in an organizational context

Getting started

Systematic assessment

Individualized family service plan

Carrying out the plan

Moving on and ending services

The home visitor as a member of a multidisciplinary team

Integrated team case management : home-visiting and psychoeducational groups

The home visitor's role in quality management and evaluation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-148) and index.

ISBN:

9781570036767

1570036764

OCLC:

76937416