Overview

This fully-integrated volume written by the leading experts in the field of social work presents a wide rage of therapeutic paradigms. Especially noteworthy is the common framework provided for all paradigms discusse, thus facilitating comparison and contrast between each approach. These paradigms include cognitive, brief-oriented, and psychosocial therapies, as well as Adlerian theory and radical behavorism.

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Author:   Rachelle A. Dorfman, PhD.
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138009516

ISBN 10:   1138009512
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   01 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: History and Case; 1: Clinical Social Work: The Development of a Discipline; 2: The Case; II: Paradigms; 3: Mental Structures and Personal Relations: Psychodynamic Theory in Clinical Social Work; 4: Adlerian Theory and Therapy; 5: Psychosocial Therapy; 6: Radical Behaviorism and Clinical Social Work; 7: Social Group Work as a Clinical Paradigm; 8: Cognitive Therapy; 9: Brief Task-Centered Treatment; 10: Family Therapy: A Structural Approach; 11: The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Model: An Ideology of Social Functioning; III: Metaparadigms; 12: The Eco-Systems Perspective; 13: Existential Social Work; 14: The Constructivist–Developmental Paradigm; 15: Cybernetic Epistemology; 16: Evolving a Personal Philosophy of Practice: Towards Eclecticism; 17: Epilogue

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Rachelle A. Dorfman-Zukerman, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong and a 1998-99 recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the National University in Taiwan. Melinda L. Morgan, Ph.D., LCSW is a lecturer at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist with a private practice in Santa Monica and an NIMH post-doctoral fellow in the psychobiology of psychiatric illness at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital. Phil Meyer, LCSW us a lecturer at the UCLA Graduate School of Public Policy and Social Research and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private psychotherapy practice in Los Angeles. He is also the Consumer Liaison for the Center for Mental Health Services in Washington, D.C.

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