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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Policy Context: Social and Economic Justice in the Era of Devolution
1 Actualizing Social Justice Within the Client/Social Worker Relationship
2 Welfare Reform: Skills Game or Shill Game?
3 The Ramifications of Welfare Reform on Vulnerable Populations
4 A Society for all Ages: Older Adults and the Social Contract
5 Social Work Under Managed Care: Will We Survive, or Can We Prevail?
Part II: Context Meets Practice: Public Issues/Private Troubles-Devolving Systems and Their Human and Practice Consequences
Introduction
6 Testing a Therapeutic Model for Empowering Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
7 Bereavement Issues to Consider for Latino Children Whose Parents Die of AIDS
8 When Children Arrive Later: Helping the Separated and Reunited Immigrant Child
9 Immigration and Mental Health: Principles for Successful Social Work Practice
10 Palliative Care: Facilitating Decision Making About Death and Dying
Part III: Call to Action: Strengthening Communities
Introduction
Special Preface to Part III-Getting It Together: Interagency Collaboration in an Era of Rationing in the Human Services
11 Bottom-Up Planning in a Top-Down World
12 The Professional Mandate for the Use of Strategic Collaborations by Lawyers and Social Workers in Child Maltreatment/Intimate Partner Violence Cases
13 The Impact of a Changing Funding Environment on Agencies
14 Sustaining Strong Communities in a World of Devolution: Empowerment-Based Social Services in Housing Settings
15 The Role of Social Work Ethics in Empowering Clients and Communities
16 Religious Congregations as Mediators of Devolution: A Study of Parish-Based Services
17 Spirituality as Empowerment in Social Work Practice
18 Social Work (International): Economics in the Service of Social Issues-Human Development and Solution-Focused Programs
Index
Contributing Authors
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Policy Context: Social and Economic Justice in the Era of Devolution
1 Actualizing Social Justice Within the Client/Social Worker Relationship
2 Welfare Reform: Skills Game or Shill Game?
3 The Ramifications of Welfare Reform on Vulnerable Populations
4 A Society for all Ages: Older Adults and the Social Contract
5 Social Work Under Managed Care: Will We Survive, or Can We Prevail?
Part II: Context Meets Practice: Public Issues/Private Troubles-Devolving Systems and Their Human and Practice Consequences
Introduction
6 Testing a Therapeutic Model for Empowering Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
7 Bereavement Issues to Consider for Latino Children Whose Parents Die of AIDS
8 When Children Arrive Later: Helping the Separated and Reunited Immigrant Child
9 Immigration and Mental Health: Principles for Successful Social Work Practice
10 Palliative Care: Facilitating Decision Making About Death and Dying
Part III: Call to Action: Strengthening Communities
Introduction
Special Preface to Part III-Getting It Together: Interagency Collaboration in an Era of Rationing in the Human Services
11 Bottom-Up Planning in a Top-Down World
12 The Professional Mandate for the Use of Strategic Collaborations by Lawyers and Social Workers in Child Maltreatment/Intimate Partner Violence Cases
13 The Impact of a Changing Funding Environment on Agencies
14 Sustaining Strong Communities in a World of Devolution: Empowerment-Based Social Services in Housing Settings
15 The Role of Social Work Ethics in Empowering Clients and Communities
16 Religious Congregations as Mediators of Devolution: A Study of Parish-Based Services
17 Spirituality as Empowerment in Social Work Practice
18 Social Work (International): Economics in the Service of Social Issues-Human Development and Solution-Focused Programs
Index
Contributing Authors