Social Work Practice with Children, Third Edition: (Clinical Practice with Children, Adolescents, and Families)

About the Book

Widely adopted, this bestselling text provides the knowledge that social workers need for effective, culturally competent practice with children, adolescents, and their caregivers. The author presents a framework for developmentally informed assessment and intervention and describes a variety of powerful helping methods, illustrated with vivid case examples. Demonstrated are research-based strategies for working with victims of abuse and trauma as well as children affected by poverty, divorce, parental substance abuse, and other adverse circumstances. Special features include instructive discussion questions and role-play exercises. Reproducible assessment forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size (www.guilford.com/p/webb). New to this edition updated to incorporate current research on child development, attachment, and trauma chapter on bullying new discussions of autism, childhood obesity, and blended families school social work chapter has been extensively revised expanded examples of group work, including groups for children with ADHD and crisis groups following disasters.

Table of Contents:

I. An Ecological–Developmental Framework for Helping Children
1. The Challenge of Meeting Children’s Needs
2. Necessary Background for Helping Children

II. The Process of Helping Children: A Running Case Illustration of a Child in a Single-ParentHomeless 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. Working with the Family
7. Individual Play Therapy
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-Abusing Families
14. Child Victims and Witnesses of Family and Community Violence
15. The Interpersonal Violence of Bullying
16. The Impact of a Changing World on Practice with and for Children
Appendices:
Child-Related Professional Organizations
Child-Related Professional Journals
Training Programs and Certifications
Suppliers of Play Materials
Bereavement Resources
Forms for Assessment of the Bereaved Child Forms for Assessment of the Child in Crisis

About the Author :
Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, BCD, RPT-S, University Distinguished Professor Emerita of Social Work, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, USA. Foreword by James W. Drisko, PhD, LICSW, Smith College School for Social Work, USA

Review :
"This book is a comprehensive compendium of good practice. It differs from many other social work texts in the attention it pays to using play therapy techniques, including drawings, puppets, and clay, to help children. In addition to being a social work expert, the author is a trained play therapist, and provides advice on the safe use of simple play therapy techniques as an indispensable aid to communication with children. She weaves the use of art and play into the whole book at appropriate points. Now in its third edition, this is a useful and creative book for all professionals (and those studying to be professionals) working with children." - Marian Liebmann, University of Bristol, UK "This third edition continues to make a valuable contribution to enhancing our understanding of how children's lives are affected by the systems around them. Webb uses specific examples and works outward from them in intuitive ways. Readers are invited to build on their own understandings and clinical experiences, regardless of the foundational knowledge they bring to the book." - Todd Franke, University of California, Los Angeles, USA