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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Interpersonal Practice in Social Work: Nature and Scope | |
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| Definition of Social Work | |
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| Interpersonal Practice | |
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| Use of Ecological Concepts | |
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| The Scope of Practice | |
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| The Bases of Interpersonal Practice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Basic Assumptions and Concepts | |
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| Rationale | |
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| Underlying Assumptions | |
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| Metaphors | |
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| Basic Concepts: Client, Worker; Target, and Action Systems | |
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| Summary | |
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| Values, Ideology, and Ethics of Professional Social Work | |
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| The Ideology of the Social Work Profession | |
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| The Social Work Code of Ethics | |
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| Value Conflicts in Practice | |
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| Practice Cases With Ethical Issues | |
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| Summary | |
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| Interpersonal Practice Beyond Diversity and Toward Social Justice: The Importance of Critical Consciousness | |
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| What is Critical Consciousness? | |
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| Mayor Dimensions of Multiculturalism and Some Terminology | |
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| Key Social Group Categories and Related Terminology | |
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| How Do Multiple Identities Work? | |
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| Routes to Critical Consciousness and Multicultural Competence | |
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| The Application of Critical Consciousness to Practice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Violence and Trauma | |
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| Recognition of Violence and Trauma | |
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| Types of Trauma | |
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| Assessment of Trauma | |
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| Consequences of Trauma: Symptoms of Psychological and Emotional Injury | |
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| Treatment Options | |
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| Risk Screening Protocols | |
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| Summary | |
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| Engagement and Relationship | |
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| Definition of the Social Work Relationship | |
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| Power Dimensions in Professional Relationships | |
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| Stages of the Professional Relationship | |
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| Transactional Nature of the Professional Relationship | |
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| Why Is Relationship So Important? | |
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| Conscious Use of Self | |
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| Importance of Hope | |
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| The Initiation of Relationships | |
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| Relationships in Group Situations | |
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| Relationships in Family Situations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Becoming a Client | |
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| Definition of a Client | |
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| Overview of the Clienthood Process | |
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| Pathways to Clienthood | |
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| The Entry Process | |
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| The Worker's Tasks With Applicants | |
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| Tasks With Nonclients | |
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| "Significant Others" in the Client's Life | |
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| Defining the Client in a Multiperson Client System | |
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| Agency Conditions and Definitions of Client | |
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| Continuance and Discontinuance | |
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| Orientation to the Client Role | |
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| The Initiation of Problem Solving | |
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| The Preliminary Contract | |
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| Summary | |
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| Contracting | |
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| Components of a Social Work Contract | |
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| Characteristics of a Social Work Contract | |
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| Value of the Contract Approach | |
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| Limits of Contracting | |
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| Contracting With Families and Groups | |
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| Summary | |
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| Monitoring and Evaluating Change | |
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| Monitoring | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Side Effects | |
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| Summary | |
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| Assessing Individuals | |
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| Purposes of Assessments | |
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| Issues in Use of Sources | |
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| Individual Assessment Framework | |
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| Stress Assessment | |
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| Crisis Assessment | |
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| Assessment as a "Label" | |
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| PIE - The Person-in-Environment System | |
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| Summary | |
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| Individual Change | |
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| The Context of Interpersonal Change | |
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| Interventive Roles | |
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| Overcoming Barriers | |
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| Crisis Intervention | |
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| Role Solutions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Assessing Families | |
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| What Is a Family? | |
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| Measurement of System Variables | |
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| Family Assessment | |
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| The Process of Family Assessment | |
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| Obtaining Family Assessment Data | |
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| Categorizing Family Circumstances | |
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| Ways of Portraying Family Conditions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Family Change | |
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| Occasions for Family Interventions | |
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| Prior to the First Family Session | |
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| The Initial Sessions | |
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| The Family Change Stage | |
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| Phase of the Family Life Cycle | |
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| Endings | |
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| Summary | |
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| Assessing Groups | |
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| Types of Groups | |
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| Therapeutic/Effectiveness Variables | |
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| Group Development | |
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| Assessing Group Dynamics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Group Change | |
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| Working With Elders in a Support Group | |
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| First Group Session | |
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| Second Group Session | |
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| The First Session of a Closed Group | |
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| Leadership Interventions | |
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| Interpersonal Conflict in Groups | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Assessing Organizations and Communities | |
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| Organizational Assessment | |
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| Community Assessment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Change in Organizations and Communities | |
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| Ethics of Organizational and Community Change | |
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| Theories of Organizational Change | |
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| Community Change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Termination | |
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| The Tasks of Termination | |
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| Termination Issues in Group Work | |
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| Termination Issues With Families | |
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| Worker Termination | |
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| Problematic Terminations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |