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Preface | |
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About the Editors | |
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Contributors | |
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Assessment of Groups | |
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Historical Background | |
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Summary of Current Evidence and Application to Group Assessment | |
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Identified Needs for New Research | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Group Work: A Critical Addition to the Social Work Repertoire | |
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Group Work: A New Method of Intervention with Deep Historical Roots | |
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Group Work Models for Practice | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Assessment of Communities | |
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Historical Background and Theory | |
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Assessment in Practice: Discovering and Documenting the Life of a Community | |
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Limitations of the Evidence | |
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Implications for Social Work on Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels | |
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Future Directions | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Intervention with Communities | |
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Focus of Community Intervention: What Does Community Mean? | |
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Historical Background | |
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Current Evidence-Based Intervention with Communities | |
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Limitations to the Evidence | |
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Implications for Social Work | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Assessment of Organizations | |
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Worker's Perspective | |
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Management's Perspective | |
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Funder's Perspective | |
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Client's Perspective | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Intervention with Organizations | |
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Social, Strategic, and Technical Dimensions of Organizational Context | |
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Work Environments of Social Services Organizations | |
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Using Planned Intervention to Change Organizational Contexts | |
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Historical Background | |
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From Organizational Development to Change Management | |
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The ARC Model as a Framework for Implementing Organizational Interventions | |
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Limitations of the Evidence | |
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Implications for Social Work Practice | |
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Conclusion | |
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Note | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Assessment of Institutions | |
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Historical Background | |
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Assessment and Early Institutions | |
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Emerging Federal Role in Institutional Reforms and Assessment | |
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Characteristics of Asylums | |
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The Anti-Institutionalization Movement | |
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Normalization, the Least Restrictive Environment, and Recovery | |
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Current Frameworks for Assessing Institutions | |
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Organizational Effectiveness | |
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Quality | |
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Evidence-Based Assessment of Institutions | |
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Implications at the Macro, Mezzo, and Micro Levels | |
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Conclusion | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Intervention with Institutions | |
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Historical Background | |
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Summary of Contemporary Evidence-Based Intervention with Institutions | |
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Limitations of the Evidence | |
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Implications for Social Work Practice | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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Key Terms | |
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Review Questions for Critical Thinking | |
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Online Resources | |
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References | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |