Social Work Practice with Children, Fourth Edition

Contents

• Foreword, Luis H. Zayas
• I. An Ecological-Developmental Framework for Helping Children
• 1. The Challenge of Meeting Children's Needs in the Context of Difficult Family and Community Environments
• 2. Challenges for Practitioners in Helping Children
• II. The Process of Helping Children: A Running Case Illustration of a Child in a Single-Parent Homeless Family
• 3. Building Relationships with All Relevant Systems
• 4. The Biopsychosocial Assessment of the Child
• 5. Contracting, Planning Interventions, and Tracking Progress
• III. Different Methods of Helping Children
• 6. Helping the Family Help Their Child
• 7. Individual Play Therapy with the Child
• 8. Group Work with Children
• 9. School-Based Interventions
• IV. Helping Children in Special Circumstances
• 10. Children Living in Kinship and Foster Home Placements
• 11. Children in Single-Parent, Divorcing, and Blended Families
• 12. Children in Families Affected by Illness and Death
• 13. Children in Substance-Using Families
• 14. Child Victims and Witnesses of Family and Community Violence
• 15. The Interpersonal Violence of Bullying: Its Impact on Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders/Witnesses
• 16. Immigrant and Refugee Children
• 17. The Impact of a Changing World on Practice with and for Children
• Appendices
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index