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ISBN 10: 0203867963 

ISBN 13: 9780203867969

Author: Brian Sheldon, Geraldine Macdonald

Where did professional social work originate from? How effective are social work interpretations in the lives of vulnerable people? A Textbook of Social Work provides a comprehensive discussion of social work practice and its evidence-base. It strikes a balance between the need for social workers to understand the social, economic, cultural, psychological and interpersonal factors which give rise to clients’ problems, and the need for them to know how best to respond with practical measures. Divided into three parts: the text covers the history and of social work as a movement and profession in the first, and social work methods and approaches in the second. The final part looks at the major specialisms, including, among others, chapters on: Children and families Youth Offenders and substance misusers Social work and mental health Disabled people Older People Providing a comprehensive guide to conceptual and methodological issues in social work and containing plentiful case studies and examples, this book is an essential read for social work students, as well as a valuable resource for practitioners and academics.

Table of contents:

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1 A brief history of social work
The scope of professional social work
Social work as a field of study
The impulse to help
Religious influences
The political effects of industrialization
The social and public health effects of the Industrial Revolution
The English Poor Law
Empire, the growth of trades unions, and the rise of socialism
The rise of organized social welfare
The influence of World War I
The ‘psychiatric deluge’ and the role of knowledge in social work
World War II and the creation of the Welfare State
The post-war settlement
Later attempts at a reform of social work
Recent achievements and future prospects
Conclusions

2 Theory and practice in social work
Theories and theorizing
Perceptual reflex-based theories
Implicit theories
Embedded theories
Elaborated theories
The integration of theory and practice
Two cultures?
Problems with eclecticism
Theoretical conflict
The qualities of theories
Attitudes to science
Conclusions

3 General trends from studies of the effectiveness of social work
The shock of the old
Factors associated with positive outcomes
Service patterns
Logical fit
Stitches in time
Project work
Group work
Are all intervention methods created equal?
Individual factors in helping

4 Evidence-based practice
Origins
Definition and implications
Obstacles to evidence-based practice
Methodological questions
Attributive confidence in different types of research
Stones in the road
Evaluating client-opinion studies
Knowledge of experimental studies
Knowledge of basic statistics
Implications for training
Recommendations
Evaluation research strategies
Eleven basic questions to ask of an evaluation research study
Conclusions

Part II Social work methods, including assessment procedures
5 Assessment, monitoring and evaluation
General points
Stages in assessment (see Figure 5.1)
Referral and early engagement
Social histories
Current family relationships and circumstances
Financial, material and housing circumstances
Health
Education
Reducing problems to their component parts
Risk assessment
Case or problem formulations
Setting intermediate and longer term objectives
Evaluation
Conclusions

6 Social casework and task-centred casework
Social casework
The non-judgemental attitude
Acceptance
Controlled emotional involvement
Confidentiality
Social casework today
Task-centred casework
Research on the effectiveness of task-centred casework
Conclusions

7 Cognitive-behavioural approaches
Learning theory and research
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Schedules of reinforcement
Learned helplessness
Vicarious learning and modelling
Notes on assessment in CBT
Conclusions

8 Systemic approaches including family therapy
Origins
A developmental perspective
Salient features of systemic approaches to work with families
Boundaries
Patterns
Stability and change
Stability
Change
Complexity
Key stages of systemic approaches to work with families
Schools of family therapy
Strategic family therapy
Assessment in strategic family therapy
Intervention in strategic family therapy
Brief, solution-focused therapy
Intervention in brief, solution-focused therapy
Multisystemic therapy (MST)
Assessment in MST
Intervention in MST
Summary
The evidence base
Compromise conclusions

9 Social work and community work
What is community?
The skills of community-based work
Assessment
Networking
Community-level interventions
Community-based projects
An integrated model of social work and community work?

Part III Client groups: common problems and what helps
10 Social work with children and families
Introduction
The organization of services
Improving outcomes for children
Children in need
Safeguarding
Ecological-transactional models
What works in safeguarding children and promoting well-being?
Primary prevention
Economic and social interventions
Early education
Improving parental knowledge and skills
Improving economic well-being
Broad-based family support programmes
Primary prevention of the sexual abuse of children
Secondary prevention
Attachment-based interventions
Attachment theory-based interventions
Maternal sensitivity
Infant attachment
High-risk families
Relationship between sensitivity and infant attachment security
Home visiting
Parenting programmes
Work with learning-disabled parents
Anger management
Tertiary prevention
Cognitive-behavioural parent training
Broader based cognitive-behavioural interventions
Social network interventions
Family therapy
Addressing the problems of parents
Parents who misuse drugs and/or alcohol
Parents with mental illness
Domestic violence

11 Social work with looked-after children
Children in foster care
Effective recruitment and retention of foster carers
Matching children and carers
Providing information to children and carers
Maintaining important relationships
Effective training and support for carers
Promoting educational achievement
Concurrent planning
Family and friends foster care
Family group decision-making
Residential care
Problems in providing effective residential care
Homes that do well
Outcomes of residential care
Leaving care
Helping care leavers towards a successful transition
Improving outcomes for care leavers
Adoption
Who is adopted?
How effective are adoptions?
Disruption in adoption
Children’s experiences and difficulties
Characteristics of the adoptive family
Other outcomes
Comparisons with long-term foster care
Contact
Post-adoption support
Helping children who have been affected by maltreatment
Helping children who have suffered neglect
Sexual abuse
Conclusions

12 Social work with young offenders
Introduction
The scope of youth offending
Age and gender
Social class and ethnicity
Drugs
Alcohol
Understanding youth crime
Individual risk factors
Genetic influences
Low intelligence
Temperament and personality
Biased social information processing
Drugs and alcohol
Psychosocial risk factors
Family factors
Parenting
Coercive and hostile styles of parenting
Poor monitoring and supervision
Peer groups
Resilience
Societal factors
What works in youth offending?
Prevention
Early parent training
Child social skills training
Juvenile awareness programmes
Promising interventions with young offenders
Cognitive-behavioural interventions
Restorative justice programmes
‘What works in sentencing?’
What works in substance use and misuse?
What is effective in work on substance abuse with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people?
The broader picture of outcome research on substance abuse
Criminal justice and substance misuse interventions
Substance misuse – is a broader approach needed?
Findings from research on youth justice in England and Wales

13 Social work and mental health
History, ideology and politics
Psycho-social factors in mental disorders
Socio-cultural factors
Depression
Effective treatments for depression
Bipolar disorder
Pharmacological treatments
Psycho-social interventions
Schizophrenia
Diagnostic criteria
Causes
Psychosocial interventions
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Diagnostic criteria
Causes
Pharmacological interventions
Psycho-social interventions
Eating disorders
Diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa
Types
Effective interventions
Asperger’s Syndrome
Diagnostic criteria
Personality disorders
Effective interventions
Conclusions

14 Social work with people with disabilities
Care needed?
The social model of disability
Social work and disabled people
An inclusive approach
Disabled children
Parents and families of disabled children
Listening to disabled children
What families want
Information about impairment
Information about services and other resources
Access to relevant services
Children and education
Key workers
The transition to adulthood
Effective transition planning
Disabled adults
Social work and disabled people – the reality gap
Direct payments – potential for change
The future

15 Social work with older people
Perceptions of old age
Ageing and older people
Social care for older people
Care management
Social work with older people
Health and social care
Promoting partnership working
Direct payments and individualized budgets
What works for older people?
Supporting people in their homes
Low-intensity services
High-intensity services
Intermediate care
Rehabilitation for older people
Effectiveness of intermediate care/rehabilitation
Telecare
Carers
The dementias
Alzheimer’s Syndrome
Dementia due to Parkinson’s Disease
Other dementias
Interventions in cases of dementia
Pharmaceutical treatments
Symptomatic treatments
Psychosocial interventions
Conclusions

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