Main description:

Covering a range of theoretical and practical orientations, Social Work Essentials provides timely updates on the fundamental knowledge needed for contemporary social work practice, written by the fields leading scholars and practitioners. This extensive collection features rigorous analysis of nearly 70 topics that are central to the field today, from child welfare and community organization to human trafficking, military social work, the DSM-5, cognitive
behavioral therapies, and motivational interviewing.

All articles are written in a clear, straightforward style that will be accessible to readers throughout the profession, and each entry includes a bibliography that provides readers with further directions for research and in-depth study. Drawn from the constantly-updated, field-defining Encyclopedia of Social Work, Social Work Essentials brings together a vital compilation of cutting-edge articles in a compact reference guide that will prove valuable in a diverse range of settings.
Individual practitioners, school social workers, and social work students will all benefit from keeping Social Work Essentials close at hand.

Contents:

Action Research
Adolescents: Overview
Advocacy
Aging: Overview
Alcohol & Drug Problems: An Overview
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
Child Abuse and Neglect
Children: Overview
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Collaborative Practice
Common Factors in Psychotherapy
Community: Practice Interventions
Criminal Justice: Overview
Cultural Competence
Disproportionality and Disparities
Ecological Framework
Ethics and Values
Ethics in Research
Evidence-Based Practice
Family Therapy
Family: Overview
Financial Social Work
Generalist and Advanced Generalist Practice
Groupwork
Health Care: Practice Interventions
Housing
Human Trafficking: Overview
Immigration Policy
International Social Work: Overview
Intervention Research
Interviewing
Intimate Partner Violence
Juvenile Justice: Overview
Leadership, Foundations of
Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (LGBT) Families and Parenting
Macro Social Work Practice
Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Mood Disorders
Military Social Work
Motivational Interviewing
Multiculturalism
Multiethnic and Multiracialism
Oppression
Organizational Change in Human Service Organizations
Outcome Measures
Person-in-Environment
Poverty
Practice Intervention and Research
Primary Health Care
Psychosocial Framework
Qualitative Research
Rights-Based Framework and Social Work
School Social Work
Social Justice
Social Policy: Overview
Social Work Malpractice, Liability, and Risk Management
Social Work Practice: History and Evolution
Social Work Profession: History
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Spirituality in Social Work
Strengths Perspective
Survivors of Suicide, Those Left Behind When Someone Dies by Suicide
Systematic Reviews
Task-Centered Practice
Teams
Technology: Technology in Macro Practice
The NASW Code of Ethics
Transdisciplinary and Translational Research
Trauma-Informed Care
Women: Practice Interventions