Elizabeth D. Hutchison, Holly C. Matto, Marcia P. Harrigan

Broschiertes Buch

Challenges of Living

A Multidimensional Working Model for Social Workers

Beschreibung

The book provides a working model for social workers to integrate the most up-to-date evidence about challenges of living encountered in their daily practice. Using a multidimensional biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective, the book examines etiology, course and intervention strategies related to 8 challenges of living. The book presents a range of theories of causation and brings together the most recent interdisciplinary research on risk and protective factors in each chapter. Each chapter is organized according to the features of the working model and includes: " narrative story (or stories) " theories of causation " patterns of occurrence across gender, race/ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, disability " biological risk and protective factors " psychological risk and protective factors " social risk and protective factors " spiritual risk and protective factors " integration of biopsychosocial-spiritual dimensions " ways that people attempt to cope " social justice issues " implications for social work policy and practice.

Autor

Elizabeth D. Hutchison received her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She was on the faculty in the social work department at Elms College from 1980 to 1987 and was chair of the department from 1982 to 1987. She was on the faculty in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1987 to 2009, where she taught courses in human behavior and the social environment, social work and social justice, and child and family policy; she also served as field practicum liaison. She has been a social worker in health, mental health, aging, and child and family welfare settings and engaged in volunteer work with incarcerated women and environmental justice for farm workers in the Coachella Valley of California. She is committed to providing social workers with comprehensive, current, and useful frameworks for thinking about human behavior. Her other research interests focus on child and family welfare. She lives in Reno, Nevada, where she enjoys hiking around Lake Tahoe and being a hands-on grandmother to two humans and one dog. She collaborates with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada on local social, racial, economic, and environmental justice issues.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 811g
• ISBN-13: 9781412908993
• ISBN-10: 141290899X
• Artikelnr.: 21045451