Family Assessment Handbook
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-495-60121-0 (ISBN)
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FAMILY ASSESSMENT HANDBOOK: AN INTRODUCTORY PRACTICE GUIDE TO FAMILY ASSESSMENT, Third Edition, will prove to be an immensely helpful book whether you're preparing for a career working with families, or you just want to increase your knowledge of family sociology. With a focus on how to conduct a family assessment for case intervention, this practical guide offers a step-by-step approach to family practice. Fascinating family case studies demonstrate the process of assessment and selected interventions for working with diverse families. The Third Edition includes numerous resources to help readers develop evidence-based practice competencies, attitudes, and skills that support assessment of diverse family systems.
Dr. Barbara Thomlison is a professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Institute for Children and Families at Risk at Florida International University. She obtained her Ph.D. in social work from the University of Toronto. Her academic experiences involve various undergraduate and graduate programs, where she teaches advanced clinical practice and family intervention courses. Her research interests include parenting programs, children at risk of maltreatment, family and youth violence, foster care, and early childhood interventions. Dr. Thomlison's extensive publications include articles, chapters, and books in the areas of child maltreatment interventions, parenting for effectiveness, family assessment, risk and resilience, foster care, APA style, forensic assessment, intervention in child sexual abuse, evidence-based internships, and designing evidence-based intervention search strategies. She is actively involved as a board member in local and national child welfare, foster care, and family service organizations. Her lengthy interdisciplinary practice history also includes services to children and families, as well as policy services research.
Part I: FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION.
1. Family Contexts.
2. A Framework for Understanding Families.
3. Family Systems.
4. Intergenerational Family Systems.
Part II: FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION.
5. Family Assessment.
6. Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention Strategies.
7. Evaluating Change.
8. Common Family Conflicts and Parenting Challenges.
Part III: PREPARING FOR FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION.
9. Critical and Reflective Thinking.
10. Narratives: Journals, Stories, and Letter Writing.
11. Exploring You Own Family Systems.
Part IV: PRACTICING FAMILY ASSESSMENT THROUGH CASE STUDIES.
12. The Yellowbird Family: Foster Care, Delinquency, and Transition to Independent Living.
13. The Foxx Family: Physical Abuse, Aggression, and Parent-Child Management.
14. The Sherman Family: Applying for Adoption.
15. The Fernandez Family: Supporting an Older Adult.
16. The Del Sol Family: Marital Conflict and Parenting Concerns.
17. The McCoy Family: Coping with Role Change after a Mother's Death.
18. The Jacques Family: Assessment and Intervention in Intimate Partner Violence.
19 Brief Case Studies.
References.
Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.2009 |
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| Verlagsort | Belmont, CA |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 218 x 278 mm |
| Gewicht | 493 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-495-60121-7 / 0495601217 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-495-60121-0 / 9780495601210 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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