Family Health Social Work Practice (eBook, PDF)

A Macro Level Approach
Redaktion: Pardeck, John T.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Pardeck and his contributors approach the topic of family health from a macro perspective. Family health is a holistic approach to treatment embracing aspects of family functioning not typically considered in other more traditional approaches to assessment and treatment. They place particular emphasis on the ecological context in which the family functions, including the neighborhood, community, and other larger social systems.

Family health is defined as the development of, and continuous interaction among, the physical, mental, emotional, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of the family, that result in the holistic well-being of the family and its members. The chapters in the book are guided by a number of key premises, including (a) Family health social work practice is grounded in a biopsychosocial approach to assessment and treatment; (b) Family health is based in a systems-ecological approach to assessment and intervention because of the role that various systems play in the well-being of the family; (c) Family health views the family system as the most important system for promoting the growth and development of the person; (d) Family health social work practice requires close collaboration between social work practitioners and other professionals. Based on these basic premises, Pardeck focuses on the macro level issues of family health practice that include community intervention, policy and program development, and program administration. The book is an important resource for social work professionals, scholars, students, and other researchers involved with social work practice and human services.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313013041
• Artikelnr.: 68528101

Autorenporträt

JOHN T. PARDECK is Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Work at Southwest Missouri State University. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Professor Pardeck is the author or editor of booklength studies, including Social Work After the Americans with Disabilities Act (Auburn House, 1998), Social Work Practice (Auburn House, 1996), and Children in Foster Care and Adoption (Greenwood Press, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by John T. Pardeck An Introduction to Macro Level Family Health
Social Work Practice by John T. Pardeck An Exploration of Family Health in
the Social Work Literature by John T. Pardeck Clinical Instruments for
Assessing Family Health by John T. Pardeck Treating Family Stress through
the Family Health Approach by John T. Pardeck Analysis of Factors
Preventing the Development of a National Policy for Supporting Family
Health by John T. Pardeck A Family Health Organizational Model: Policy and
Practice by Diane Elliott Family Health and Social and Economic Justice by
John Gunther and Alan Kirk Adapting Family Health Principles to a Hispanic
Migrant Health Care Model by Susan C. Dollar Administration and Family
Health by Francis K. O. Yuen Suggested Selected Readings