1st Edition

Reaching High-Risk Families Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services - Modern Applications of Social Work

By Elizabeth Tracy Copyright 1990
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    Focusing on a program ("Homebuilders") that has attracted national attention, this book develops implications for family-centered curricula in such areas as social policy, direct practice, program design/management, practice research, theory and prevention.

    1: Family Preservation Services and Education for Social Work Practice: Stimulus and Response; 2: Recognizing and Realizing the Potential of “Family Preservation”; 3: The Homebuilders Model; 4: Family-Based Services and Public Policy: Context and Implications; 5: Theories Guiding Home-Based Intensive Family Preservation Services; 6: Family Preservation Services and the Social Work Practice Sequence; 7: Designing and Managing Family Preservation Services: Implications for Human Services Administration Curricula; 8: Applying Practice Research Methods in Intensive Family Preservation Services; 9: Creating Social Change: “Mission”-Oriented Research and Entrepreneurship; 10: Intensive Family Preservation Services: Broadening the Vision for Prevention; Afterword

    Biography

    Elizabeth Tracy