Social Work with Families: Content and Process - Softcover

Constable, Robert T

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0925065773 ISBN 13: 9780925065773

Publisher: Lyceum Books Inc.,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

Social workers have worked with families for over 100 years. Drawing on this rich history, the authors develop a clear, flexible approach to couples and family therapy, which accommodates family and individual intervention, multiple methodologies, and the institutions where social workers practice. To create this approach, Robert Constable and Daniel B. Lee draw upon the contributions of family therapy, symbolic interactionist social psychology, as well as a century's tradition of social work with families. Using social work as an overall framework, the authors show how to use, draw on, and integrate a variety of schools of thought into therapy.

A teaching goal of this book is to elaborate the process and content of social work with families. Content and process are used to integrate various theory bases. Process is an interaction sequence, taking place between family members at different stages of family development, and with the social worker. Content reflects the purposes of the intervention, helping families reconstruct relationships. The many case studies and examples reflect the content and process of situations that social workers encounter every day in family work.

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Review

Constable and Lee do a masterful job of clearly presenting traditoinal family therapy theories and intervention techniques.... Based on a transcultural approach to understanding behavior in family constellations, this book successfully makes a case for assessment and intervention adopting family therapy approaches.
--Social Development Issues

...Social Work with Families, by Robert Constable and Daniel B. Lee, advances family-centered social work practice for the 21st century. In this updated version of their earlier volume, they deconstruct, integrate, and synthesize core approaches and present evidence-based practices in soical wokr practice with families. But unlike a traditional text that provides analytic and integrative frames based solely on the work of other theorists and disciplines, Constable and Lee advance practice by drawing on their own key frameworks such as building family solidarity and relationship justice.
--Journal of Teaching in Social Work

"Constable and Lee do a masterful job of clearly presenting traditional family therapy theories and intervention techniques... Using this book as a tool to supplement lectures and practice exercises in the classroom would improve the understanding of advanced students interested in social work practice with families."
--Social Development Issues

Constable and Lee do a masterful job of clearly presenting traditoinal family therapy theories and intervention techniques.... Based on a transcultural approach to understanding behavior in family constellations, this book successfully makes a case for assessment and intervention adopting family therapy approaches.
--Social Development Issues

...Social Work with Families, by Robert Constable and Daniel B. Lee, advances family-centered social work practice for the 21st century. In this updated version of their earlier volume, they deconstruct, integrate, and synthesize core approaches and present evidence-based practices in soical wokr practice with families. But unlike a traditional text that provides analytic and integrative frames based solely on the work of other theorists and disciplines, Constable and Lee advance practice by drawing on their own key frameworks such as building family solidarity and relationship justice.
--Journal of Teaching in Social Work

"Constable and Lee do a masterful job of clearly presenting traditional family therapy theories and intervention techniques... Using this book as a tool to supplement lectures and practice exercises in the classroom would improve the understanding of advanced students interested in social work practice with families."
--Social Development Issues

About the Author

Robert Constable (MSW, Loyola University Chicago; DSW, University of Pennsylvania) is professor emeritus in the School of Social Work at Loyola University in Chicago. In addition to his work in academia, he has practiced with families in various settings and in private practice for more than forty years. Professor Constable has published extensively in social work with families, school social work, and in values and ethics in social work.

Daniel B. Lee (MSW, Florida State University; DSW, University of Utah) is professor emeritus in the School of Social Work at Loyola University in Chicago. He has been a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy since 1972. Professor Lee is the founder of the Transcultural Family Institute and co-founder and former president of the Global Awareness Society International and is currently a member of the journal editorial board of NACSW.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyceum Books Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0925065773
• ISBN 13: 9780925065773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270