Social work practice with children / Nancy Boyd Webb ; foreword by Cynthia Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Nancy Boyd, 1932-

Series:

Social work practice with children and families

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work with children.

Physical Description:

xxv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Guilford Press, [2003]

Summary:

"Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this comprehensive text spells out the basics of social work practice with children and provides the specialized knowledge that students and practitioners need for helping young clients face a variety of difficult life situations. Updated and extensively rewritten to reflect current theory and practice in the field, the second edition offers expanded coverage of risk and resilience factors in assessment, goal setting, and tracking progress. Particularly useful features include in-depth case examples, tables and charts, discussion questions, role-play exercises, and several reproducible assessment forms."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

An ecological developmental framework for helping children. Children's problems and needs

Necessary background for helping children

The process of helping children : a running case illustration of a child in a single-parent homeless family. Building relationships with all relevant systems

The biopsychosocial assessment of the child

Contracting, planning interventions, and tracking progress

Different methods of helping children.

Working with the family

One-to-one work with the child

Group work with children

School-based interventions

Helping children in special circumstances. Children living in kinship and foster home placements

Children in divorcing and reconstituted families

Children in families affected by illness and death

Children in substance-abusing families

Child victims and witnesses of family and community violence

A changing world's impact on practice with and for children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-404) and index.

ISBN:

1572308869

9781572308862

OCLC:

51290059

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