Clinical Social Work with Individuals, Families, and Groups

This textbook equips students and beginning social workers with the personal and professional tools needed to work successfully with individuals, families, and groups, guided by the social justice values of the profession.

This textbook equips Masters of Social Work (MSW) students and beginning social workers with the personal and professional tools needed to work successfully with individuals, families, and groups, guided by the social justice values of the profession.

This book is a comprehensive description of practical, field-tested, ready-to-apply interventions based on the author's 40 years of practice, as well as his national and international teaching, training, and supervision. By drawing case illustrations from composites of actual practice, he demonstrates how to apply various models, as well as how to identify, avoid, and rectify clinical errors. This book also provides core understandings and techniques from models of psychotherapy alongside essential clinical skills that cut across these approaches, such as engagement, establishing therapeutic relationships, managing one's anxiety, reaching for pain, and the clinician's use of self. Filled with reflective questions and ideas for class discussion, the book addresses how to heal relationships across all contexts, such as with clients in diverse and oppressed groups and doing clinical social work during the age of Covid.

Providing a description of clinical social work that is congruent with diversity, equity, and social justice, this excellent textbook is for students and instructors of MSW courses and will prove indispensable to beginning practitioners.

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Michael C. LaSala, Ph.D., LCSW, is Professor of Social Work at Rutgers University and a master clinician with over 40 years of practice experience. As a teacher and trainer of international renown, he has won several teaching awards, and is the recipient of the American Family Therapy Academy's 2017 Distinguished Contribution to Social Justice Award.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1: Social Workers' Relationship to Themselves

Chapter 2: Clinical Social Work Defined: Psychotherapy Plus

Chapter 3: Tips for Getting Started

Chapter 4: Clinical Social Work with Individuals: It's About the Relationship

Chapter 5: Healing Relationships with Each Other-Part I: Couples

Chapter 6: Healing Relationships with Each Other-Part II: Families

Chapter 7: Healing Relationship with Each Other-Part III: Groups

Chapter 8: Healing Relationships with Clients from Diverse and Oppressed Groups

Chapter 9: Ethics: Protecting the Healing Relationship

Chapter 10: Healing Relationships in the Age of CovidEpilogue: Some Closing Thoughts

Appendix: Questions for Individual Self-Reflection and

Class Discussion

Appendix: Questions for Individual Self-Reflection and Class Discussion