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This text focuses on the skills social workers use in the helping process. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The book also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. A range of helping situations are addressed so that social workers can find useful models to incorporate into their own work. The core processes and skills are identified in the chapters on work with individuals and reappear in the discussions of group, family, and community work.
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Intended to be used in introductory courses on social work practice, this text contains 20 chapters, organized into five sections: a model of the helping process and social work in relation to individuals, families, groups, and the system. Throughout, clear examples of interactions are used to illustrate methods, theoretical material, and ethical issues. Examples and illustrations are updated from the third edition, published in 1992. A glossary of terms appears at the end of each chapter and the volume includes an index of case examples. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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