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Shared Trauma, Shared Resilience During a Pandemic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Shared Trauma, Shared Resilience During a Pandemic

This contributed volume reflects on the collective wisdom and ongoing efforts of the social work profession that has been in the forefront of the global pandemic of COVID-19. The contributors are seasoned social work academics, practitioners, administrators, and researchers. Working on the frontlines with patients and families, these social workers have garnered experiences and insights, and also have developed innovative ways to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on the psychosocial well-being of their clients and themselves. The 36 reflections, experiences, and insights in this curated collection address the behavioral, mental health, socioeconomic, and other repercussions of the coron...

The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640

The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women

Providing essential theoretical and practical guidelines for clinicians, educators, policymakers, and public health professionals, The Handbook of Addiction Treatment for Women is a comprehensive resource of the most current research and knowledge from recognized experts in the field of addiction and treatment. This much needed guide offers an historical context on the issue of women and addiction, examines the myriad challenges of the female addict, and includes recommendations for choosing a course of treatment that will meet the specific needs of an individual woman addict.

Comparative Approaches in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Comparative Approaches in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy

Introduces contemporary models of brief dynamic psychotherapy and describes fundamental tasks and methods of time-limited intervention, focusing on developmental contexts of treatment and on the needs of client populations whose options are often limited to brief treatment. Explores flexible approaches in treatment of conditions including borderline personality, reaction to trauma, and physical disability. The editor teaches contemporary psychoanalytic thought and personality theory at the University of Chicago. Co-published simultaneously as Psychoanalytic Social Work, vol. 6, nos. 3/4, 1999. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Depression and Narrative
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Depression and Narrative

Depression and Narrative examines stories of depression in the context of recent scholarship on illness and narrative, which up to this point has largely focused on physical illness and disability. Contributors from a number of disciplinary perspectives address these narrative accounts of depression, by both sufferers and those who treat them, as they appear in memoirs, diaries, novels, poems, oral interviews, fact sheets, blogs, films, and television shows. Together, they explore the stories we tell about depression: its contested causes; its gendering; the transformations in identity that it entails; and the problems it presents for communication, associated as it is with stigma and shame....

Contemporary Clinical Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Contemporary Clinical Practice

Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact on the clinical process. State-of-the-art psychodynamic theories will be applied to the understanding of how war, terrorism, politics, government regulations, and other environmental problems influence interactions between clinicians and their patients.

Doing More With Less
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 471

Doing More With Less

Confronting the challenge to provide sound clinical treatment in brief therapy, this timely book will enrich the practices of all psychotherapists. Designed and arranged according to the DSM-IV diagnostic categories, each chapter addresses the short-term treatment of a specific condition or patient population. Starting from the premise that psychodynamically trained clinicians already possess the requisite skills to conduct short-term treatment, the editors demonstrate how to adapt these skills to a time-limited approach.

Shared Mass Trauma in Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Shared Mass Trauma in Social Work

This edited volume looks at the phenomenon of shared trauma and how it affects social workers and their clients alike. Bringing together established voices from the field of social work, Shared Mass Trauma in Social Work presents ideas of how to provide resilient care and practice while social workers and their clients are both experiencing the same mass trauma. Social workers are often on the front line when community trauma occurs, and the boundary between their experiences and those of clients can become blurred. In this timely resource, Ann Goelitz and the contributors aim to share both their findings and evidence-based tools to help professionals look after themselves and their clients ...

The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

The Legacy of Fairbairn and Sutherland

In this book international contributors re-examine Fairbairn and Sutherlands' concepts in the light of current clinical experience, illuminate their concepts with contemporary psychoanalytic theories, and apply them in psychotherapy.

Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)

Abolish Social Work (As We Know It) responds to the timely and important call for police abolition by analyzing professional social work as one alternative commonly proposed as a ready-made solution to ending police brutality. Drawing on both historical analysis and lessons learned from decades of organizing abolitionist and decolonizing practices within the field and practice of social work (including social service, community organizing, and other helping fields), this book is an important contribution in the discussion of what abolitionist social work could look like. This edited volume brings together predominantly BIPOC and queer/trans* social work survivors, community-based activists, ...

Love and Attachment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Love and Attachment

It will help therapists hone their clinical skills to promote their clients' growth, love, and attachment."--BOOK JACKET.