Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice: Anti-Oppressive Social Work Skills and Techniques

The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: A Social Work Multisystemic Practice Approach (Springer, 2022) is a companion piece to the RESM and expands social workers' practice skill sets with additional concepts from the anti-oppressive practice (AOP) and coaching literature. It is organized around life transitions and illustrates skills, techniques, and interviews important to the enhancement of resilience. The book's 12 chapters cover topics such as the RESM, exploring the role of cultural diversity in resilient social functioning, countering human rights violations during life transitions, facilitating community development following disruption, resilience enhancement in social work practice, and anti-oppressive social work skills and techniques. It is written for a student social work audience at the generalist or advanced generalist level for practice across a range of populations and settings and contains traditional and contemporary human behavior content that supports a social work narrative methodology and a life course perspective.

Format: Hardback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

The difficulties social workers face in their practice are becoming increasingly complex as people around the globe experience more civil unrest and environmental disruption. This textbook deepens and expands the resilience-enhancing stress model (RESM) skill set and techniques so that social workers can more effectively serve clients and constituencies who are trying to overcome the stress of difficult life transitions and challenging environmental demands. It is designed as a companion piece to A Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: A Social Work Multisystemic Practice Approach (Springer, 2022). The intent of the RESM is to further expand social workers' practice skill sets with additional concepts from the anti-oppressive practice (AOP) and coaching literature that aligns with the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

The book's 12 chapters are organized around life transitions and illustrate skills, techniques, and interviews important to the enhancement of resilience. Among the topics covered:

The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: Articulating Anti-Oppressive Practice

Exploring the Role of Cultural Diversity in Resilient Social Functioning: Theory and Skills

Countering Human Rights Violations During Life Transitions

Facilitating Community Development Following Disruption

Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice: Anti-Oppressive Social Work Skills and Techniques

Uniquely, the book offers practitioners a knowledge base to exponentiate their efficacy in identifying and fortifying resilience in a time in history when it appears to be imperative. It is written for a student social work audience at the generalist or advanced generalist level for practice across a range of populations and settings.

Weight: 524g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031385179
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023