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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 | |