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| Preface | |
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| Perspectives On Social Work Practice | |
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| Social Work as a Response to Concern/Need | |
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| From Concern to Need | |
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| Need | |
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| Cause-Function Debate | |
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| Common Human Needs | |
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| Social Functioning | |
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| Social Work as a Developing Profession | |
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| Social Work as a Profession | |
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| Development of Social Work Knowledge | |
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| Social Work as a Creative Blending of Knowledge, Values and Skills | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| Values | |
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| Skills | |
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| Creative Blending of Knowledge, Values, and Skills | |
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| Social Work as a Process of Facilitating Growth and Change | |
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| Blending an Ecosystems Strengths Approach with the Problem-Solving Process | |
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| The Natural Process of Growth and Change | |
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| The Stages of the Change Process | |
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| Social Work Practice and the Change Process | |
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| Social Work as an Intervention into Human Transactions | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Transactions as the Focus for Change | |
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| Influence | |
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| Changes Sought by the Social Worker | |
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| The Interactional Process | |
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| The Worker | |
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| Knowledge of Self | |
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| The Helping Person | |
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| The Multiperson Helping System | |
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| The Client | |
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| Becoming a Client | |
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| Understanding the Individual Client | |
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| Understanding the Multiclient System: The Family | |
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| Environment | |
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| Person in Environment as an Ecosystem | |
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| The Community as a Social System | |
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| Understanding the Agency | |
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| Transactions between Person and Ecosystem | |
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| Working in a Bureaucracy | |
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| Interaction with Individuals | |
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| Formation of a One-to-One Action System | |
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| Relationship | |
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| Communication | |
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| The Interview: An Interactional Tool | |
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| Multiperson Interaction | |
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| The Family as the Fundamental Experience with Multiperson Interaction | |
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| The Family as a Multiperson Client System | |
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| The Small Group as a Social System | |
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| The Social Worker as a Group Member | |
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| The Worker and the Multiperson Client | |
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| The Family Group as a Social System | |
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| The Social Work Process | |
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| Assessment | |
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| The Content of the Assessment Phase | |
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| The Use of the Change Process in Assessment | |
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| Transactional Assessment | |
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| Needs Assessment | |
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| Planning | |
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| Components of a Plan | |
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| Planning with Multiperson Client Systems | |
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| Factors Affecting a Plan of Action | |
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| Agreement between Worker and Client | |
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| Direct Practice Actions | |
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| Action to Enable Clients to Use Available Resources | |
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| Action in Response to Crisis | |
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| Action That Is Supportive | |
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| Use of Activity as an Interventive Strategy | |
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| Action as Mediation | |
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| Indirect Practice Actions | |
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| Environmental Change | |
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| Involvement of Influentials | |
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| Coordination of Services | |
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| Program Planning and Resource Development | |
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| Changing Organizations from Within | |
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| Cause Advocacy | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Accountability | |
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| Kinds of Evaluation | |
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| Techniques for Use in Evaluating | |
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| Issues Related to Evaluation | |
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| Termination | |
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| Kinds of Termination | |
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| Planned Termination | |
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| Components of Termination | |
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| Appendix: Models of Social Work Practice | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |