
Family Health
A Holistic Approach to Social Work Practice
- 206 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Family Health
A Holistic Approach to Social Work Practice
About this book
The profession of social work has, since its inception, stressed the importance of the family system in practice and policy development. Even though the family has always been central to effective social work practice, the framing of the family system from a holistic health perspective is new to the field. This collection develops a family health perspective that will facilitate effective social work practice and policy development. Family health is an emerging practice orientation within the field of social work. A family health orientation practice utilizes a holistic approach that examines family strength and stress inside and outside the family system. How families perceive these conditions and their ability to adapt and change will greatly determine how concerns are managed by the family system. A critical role of the social work practitioner is to help families deal with these pressures at both the micro and macro levels. The family health perspective examined in this collection deals with assessment and intervention through a family health approach; research and evaluation on family health; family health and cultural diversity; family health and social policy; and social service delivery through a family health approach.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Family Health Approach to Social Work Practice
- 2. The Properties of the Family Health Approach
- 3. Family Health Social Work Practice: From Theory to Intervention
- 4. Treating Families Through a Family Health Perspective
- 5. A Statistical Analysis of Family Health
- 6. Clinical Instruments for Assessing Family Health
- 7. Family Health and Cultural Diversity
- 8. Family Health and Family Violence
- 9. An Analysis of Family Health and Family Policy
- 10. Postmodernism, Family Health, and Reflexivity in Social Work Practice
- 11. Family Health-centered Community Practice
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors