• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
New Approaches to Family Practice: Confronting Economic Stress

New Approaches to Family Practice: Confronting Economic Stress

Hardcover

Series: Sage Sourcebooks for the Human Services, Book 31

General ParentingPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0761900322
ISBN13: 9780761900320
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Oct 11 1996
Pages: 279
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
To what extent do economic stresses - such as dual-earner parents, unemployment//underemployment and poverty in the family - affect a social worker's assessment of the families in their care?

Families, Work, and Poverty applies a wealth of current research driven by the family systems theoretical framework to social work practice with families in three specific areas: employed-work and family- work; unemployment; and poverty. The book presents chapters on the theory and research in these three target areas, each followed by a chapter on applications and tools for direct practice in that area. Each applications chapter includes a case study, assessment tools, multilevel interventions and evaluations, and strategies for social

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Vosler, Nancy R.

Also in

Poverty & Social Work