Covering a range of theoretical and practical orientations, Social Work Essentials provides timely updates on the fundamental knowledge needed for contemporary social work practice, written by the fields leading scholars and practitioners. This extensive collection features rigorous analysis of nearly 70 topics that are central to the field today, from child welfare and community organization to human trafficking, military social work, the DSM-5, cognitive behavioraltherapies, and motivational interviewing. All articles are written in a clear, straightforward style that will be accessible to readers throughout the profession, and each entry includes a bibliography that provides readers with further directions for research and in-depth study. Drawn from the constantly-updated, field-defining Encyclopedia of Social Work, Social Work Essentials brings together a vital compilation of cutting-edge articles in a compact reference guide that will prove valuable in a diverse range of settings.Individual practitioners, school social workers, and social work students will all benefit from keeping Social Work Essentials close at hand.
Action Research; Adolescents: Overview; Advocacy; Aging: Overview; Alcohol & Drug Problems: An Overview; Child & Adolescent Mental Health Disorders; Child Abuse and Neglect; Children: Overview; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Collaborative Practice; Common Factors in Psychotherapy; Community: Practice Interventions; Criminal Justice: Overview; Cultural Competence; Disproportionality and Disparities; Ecological Framework; Ethics and Values; Ethics in Research; Evidence-Based Practice; Family Therapy; Family: Overview; Financial Social Work; Generalist and Advanced Generalist Practice; Groupwork; Health Care: Practice Interventions; Housing; Human Trafficking: Overview; Immigration Policy; International Social Work: Overview; Intervention Research; Interviewing; Intimate Partner Violence; Juvenile Justice: Overview; Leadership, Foundations of; Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (LGBT) Families and Parenting; Macro Social Work Practice; Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Mood Disorders; Military Social Work; Motivational Interviewing; Multiculturalism; Multiethnic and Multiracialism; Oppression; Organizational Change in Human Service Organizations; Outcome Measures; Person-in-Environment; Poverty; Practice Intervention and Research; Primary Health Care; Psychosocial Framework; Qualitative Research; Rights-Based Framework and Social Work; School Social Work; Social Justice; Social Policy: Overview; Social Work Malpractice, Liability, and Risk Management; Social Work Practice: History and Evolution; Social Work Profession: History; Solution-Focused Brief Therapy; Spirituality in Social Work; Strengths Perspective; Survivors of Suicide, Those Left Behind When Someone Dies by Suicide; Systematic Reviews; Task-Centered Practice; Teams; Technology: Technology in Macro Practice; The NASW Code of Ethics; Transdisciplinary and Translational Research; Trauma-Informed Care; Women: Practice Interventions;
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