Clinical Social Work with Individuals, Families, and Groups: The Healing Power of Relationships

This textbook provides 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. It offers practical, field-tested interventions and core understandings and techniques from models of psychotherapy, along with essential clinical skills. It also addresses how to heal relationships across different contexts and during the age of Covid, and is congruent with diversity, equity, and social justice.

Format: Hardback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This textbook is a vital resource for Masters of Social Work (MSW) students and aspiring social workers, equipping them with the essential personal and professional tools to excel in their work with individuals, families, and groups, all while upholding the social justice values of the profession. Authored by a highly experienced practitioner with extensive national and international teaching, training, and supervision experience, the book offers a wealth of practical, field-tested, and ready-to-apply interventions.

Through the use of case illustrations drawn from composites of actual practice, the author demonstrates how to apply various models and identify, avoid, and rectify clinical errors. Additionally, the book provides core understandings and techniques from models of psychotherapy alongside essential clinical skills such as engagement, establishing therapeutic relationships, managing 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 diverse and oppressed groups, as well as the challenges of clinical social work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to its practical value, the textbook aligns with diversity, equity, and social justice principles, making it an excellent resource for MSW students and instructors. It will prove indispensable to beginning practitioners seeking to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to provide effective and compassionate care to their clients.

Weight: 660g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367820589