Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches

First published in 1974, Social Work Treatment remains the most popular and trusted compendium of theories available to social work students and practitioners. It explores the full range of theoretical approaches that drive social work treatment and knowledge development, from psychoanalysis to crisis intervention.

This treasure trove of practice knowledge equips professionals with a broad array of theoretical approaches, each of which shine a spotlight on a different aspect of the human condition. Emphasizing the importance of a broad-based theoretical approach to practice, it helps the reader avoid the pitfalls of becoming overly identified with a narrow focus that limits their understanding of clients and their contexts.

This sweeping overview of the field untangles the increasingly complex problems, ideologies, and value sets that define contemporary social work practice. The result is an essential A-to-Z reference that charts the full range of theoretical approaches available to social workers regardless of their setting or specialty.

Dan Andreae, teaches at the University of Waterloo where he has received a prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award and at the University of Guelph Humber. He is the longest serving President of the Ontario Association of Social Workers ( OASW) and has received an honourary doctorate of laws degree from Assumption University for his contributions to health care and is a member of Harvard University's Medical School Postgraduate Continuing Education Association. Dan has also been awarded the Canadian Association of Social Workers( CASW) National Service Award and CASW's award for Ontario. He also been honoured with an inaugural June Callwood Award for outstanding and inspirational service to the voluntary sector. Dr. Andreae has authored chapters in textbooks and has been a keynote speaker on numerous occasions. Brent Angell, PhD, RLCSW, RSW, is a Professor and the Director of the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor. Considered a leading scholar on the clinical use of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Dr. Angell is committed to advancing a paradigm shift away from normative practice traditions to more generative ways of understanding and doing social work. He has made significant contributions to narrative knowing related to the worldview of North American Indian First Nations and has dedicated his career to university civic engagement and public service. Dr. Angell is the Editor and co-founder of the premiere on-line journal, Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice and has served as the President of the Canadian Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work. Suzanne Brown, LICSW is a doctoral candidate and adjunct faculty member at the Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. She has worked in clinical practice with children, adults, families, and groups. She has also practiced as a clinical supervisor, administrator, and faculty field advisor. For her doctoral dissertation Ms. Brown is currently researching the role of children in substance abuse treatment retention for women with substance use disorders. Sandy Loucks Campbell, PhD, an independent professor for over 20 years, has taught undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of gerontology, direct social work practice and organizational theory at several Canadian universities. Her PhD study completed in 2003 focused on dynamics of decision making power in long term care organizations and the impact of that power on clients served. She uses her extensive knowledge of chaos theory as the guiding theory both in her research and in her independent practice [commonpoint.ca]. She is the 2009 Recipient of the Canadian Association of Social Workers Distinguished Service award for Ontario given in recognition of her contribution to the social work profession and to the promotion of social justice and/or human rights. Donald Carpenter, PhD is social work professor emeritus at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario where he was also a former chairman of the Department. He previously taught in the schools of social work at Florida State University and Loyola University-Chicago. He most recently taught at the University of Minnesota-Duluth in the departments of social work and psychology and was a member of the teaching faculty of the Rural Health Program in the School of Medicine. His extensive clinical practice experience was in both public and private settings. Pranab Chatterjee, PhD is the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University at Cleveland, OH, 44118. He obtained his master's drgree in social work from The University of Tennessee, and his PhD in sociology from The University of Chicago. He is the author of many professional papers and book chapters. Books authored by him include A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal (2009), Contemporary Human Behavior Theory (with Susan Robbins and Edward Canda, 2006), Repackaging the Welfare State (1999), and Approaches to the Welfare State (1996). He is also the author of several books of poetry. Elaine P. Congress, MA, MSSW, DSW is Professor and Associate Dean at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. Formerly she was the Director of the Doctoral Program. Dr. Congress has published extensively in the areas of cultural diversity, immigrants, social work ethics, social work education and practice. She is a past president of NASW NYC chapter and a member of the National Board of the National Association of Social Work. Currently she serves on the NGO team for the International Federation of Social Workers at the United Nations (IFSW), the NGO Executive Committee at the United Nations and is on the International Ethics Committee for IFSW. Before her career in academia she worked as a practitioner, supervisor and administrator in a community mental health clinic. Au-Deane Shepherd Cowley, is a professor emeritus and former associate dean of the College of Social Work, University of Utah. Areas of specialization include clinical practice, marriage and family therapy, human growth and behavior, and the spiritual or transpersonal dimension. Fr. Cowley was a recipient of a University of Utah's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993, and the Alumni Association's Merit of Honor Award in 2008. Elizabeth Ann Danto, PhD, is associate professor and chair of Human Behavior in the Social Environment at the Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York. Her book "Freud's Free Clinics - Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938," (Columbia University Press, 2005) received international acclaim including the Gradiva Book Award and the Goethe prize. Her textbook on historical research methods in social work was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Dr. Danto has lectured and written widely on the history of ideas in social work and psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on social justice and access to mental health treatment.