As people around the globe experience more civil unrest and environmental disruption, the difficulties social workers face in their practice are becoming increasingly complex. This textbook deepens and expands the resilience-enhancing stress model (RESM) skill set and techniques so that social workers can more effectively serve clients and constituencies who are trying to overcome the stress of difficult life transitions and challenging environmental demands. It is designed as a companion piece to A Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: A Social Work Multisystemic Practice Approach (Springer, 2022). The intent of the RESM is to further expand social workers' practice skill sets with additional concepts from the anti-oppressive practice (AOP) and coaching literature that aligns with the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
The book's 12 chapters are organized around life transitions and illustrate skills, techniques, and interviews important to the enhancement of resilience. Among the topics covered:
- The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: Articulating Anti-Oppressive Practice
- Exploring the Role of Cultural Diversity in Resilient Social Functioning: Theory and Skills
- Countering Human Rights Violations During Life Transitions
- Facilitating Community Development Following Disruption
Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice: Anti-Oppressive Social Work Skills and Techniques uniquely offers practitioners a knowledge base to exponentiate their efficacy in identifying and fortifying resilience in a time in history when it appears to be imperative. It is written for a student social work audience at the generalist or advanced generalist level for practice across a range of populations and settings. It contains traditional and contemporary human behavior content that supports a social work narrative methodology and a life course perspective. It could be taught with its predecessor across one or two semesters. Practitioners in the field who are new to this content could also find the text a valuable resource.
Roberta Greene, PhD, MSW, professor emerita, was the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology and Social Welfare at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, she was dean of social work at Indiana University. Dr. Greene has a wide range of practice experience, including clinical practice, clinical supervision, policy, administrative, and research expertise. She is an NASW Pioneer, known for her advocacy work on nursing home reform. She was the 2015 recipient of the Knee/Whitman Outstanding Achievement Award, which recognizes significant impacts on national health, public policy, and/or professional standards. Dr. Greene has served on the Council on Social Work Education’s Educational Policy Commission. A Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America, she has conducted significant research on resilience among Holocaust survivors. A prolific author, she has authored 21 books, six of which are on resilience. Others include A Handbook of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (Aldine Transaction Press, 2017), Caregiving and Care Sharing: A Life Course Perspective (NASW Press, 2014), and Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice With Marginalized Oppressed Populations (Routledge, 2019).
Nancy Greene, DSW, MSW, MA has a master of social work from The University of Texas at Austin and a master of arts from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her doctorate is from the University of Southern California. She is a licensed clinical social worker who has practiced in home health care and hospice. She has taught for Tulane University, Grand Canyon University, and Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina. Dr. Greene is currently an assistant professor in the Norfolk State University School of Social Work, where she teaches human behavior in the social environment and practice methods.
Connie Corley, PhD, MSW, MA has a long history in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics as a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She cocreated the doctoral concentration in creative longevity and wisdom in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University and is professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. A Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America and the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, she has engaged in multiple programs as a mentor and leader in curriculum development and cofounded and directed a lifelong learning program in Los Angeles for more than 10 years. The author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and coeditor of Resilience: Navigating Challenges of Modern Life (with Marie Sonnet, PhD; Fielding University Press, 2019), her recent work focuses on creativity in later life (emerging from a national study of resilience in Holocaust survivors led by Roberta Greene, PhD) and intergenerational/intercultural mutual mentoring. She created the podcast LOVE GOES VIRAL to offer support during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (www.lovegoesviral.org) and was cohost and producer of EXPERIENCE TALKS on Pacifica station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles for more than a decade.
