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New Approaches to Family Practice

- Confronting Economic Stress

About New Approaches to Family Practice

To what extent do economic stresses - such as dual-earner parents, unemployment//underemployment and poverty in the family - affect a social worker's assessment of the families in their care? Families, Work, and Poverty applies a wealth of current research driven by the family systems theoretical framework to social work practice with families in three specific areas: employed-work and family- work; unemployment; and poverty. The book presents chapters on the theory and research in these three target areas, each followed by a chapter on applications and tools for direct practice in that area. Each applications chapter includes a case study, assessment tools, multilevel interventions and evaluations, and strategies for social

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780761900320
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 279
  • Published:
  • December 2, 1996
  • Dimensions:
  • 139x215x25 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 510 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: January 12, 2025

Description of New Approaches to Family Practice

To what extent do economic stresses - such as dual-earner parents, unemployment//underemployment and poverty in the family - affect a social worker's assessment of the families in their care?
Families, Work, and Poverty applies a wealth of current research driven by the family systems theoretical framework to social work practice with families in three specific areas: employed-work and family- work; unemployment; and poverty. The book presents chapters on the theory and research in these three target areas, each followed by a chapter on applications and tools for direct practice in that area. Each applications chapter includes a case study, assessment tools, multilevel interventions and evaluations, and strategies for social

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