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Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice

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These fifteen cases take place in child welfare, mental health, hospital, hospice, domestic violence, refugee resettlement, veterans' administration, and school settings and reflect individual, fam...
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  • 19 November 2013
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These fifteen cases take place in child welfare, mental health, hospital, hospice, domestic violence, refugee resettlement, veterans' administration, and school settings and reflect individual, family, group, and supervised social work practice. They confront common ethical and treatment issues and raise issues regarding practice interventions, programs, policies, and laws. Cases represent open-ended situations, encouraging students to apply knowledge from across the social work curriculum to develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

An instructor's manual with teaching notes is available by emailing: coursematerials@columbiauniversitypress.com.

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Price: $150.00
Pages: 224
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 19 November 2013
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780231159845
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services
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One of the great challenges in teaching social work practice is helping students move beyond tidy, textbook formulations to wrestle with the messiness of true practice. This book provides a range of honest, nuanced decision cases that can be used in classes to help students identify, articulate, and sort through the ethical, practice, and personal issues they will face in their careers. Each case focuses on a thematic area (e.g. client autonomy, supervisory conflict) with a depth and complexity that precludes easy answers. An immensely helpful tool for any educator seeking to sharpen students' critical thinking and ability to 'think like a social worker.'
Terry Wolfer is professor of social work at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Decision Cases for Generalist Social Work Practice (Cengage, 2005), Death, Dying, and Bereavement in Social Work Practice (CUP, 2008), and Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice (CUP, 2013).

Preface and Acknowledgments
To Instructors, by Terry A. Wolfer
To Students, by Terry A. Wolfer, Lori D. Franklin, and Karen A. Gray
Introduction to the Cases, by Terry A. Wolfer and Vicki M. Runnion
1. No Place Like Home, by Lori D. Franklin
2. Gay-for-Pay, by Lori D. Franklin
3. But Someone Could Die!, by Karen A. Gray and Anna Woodham
4. Believing Women, by Gecole Harley and Terry A. Wolfer
5. I Knew This Internship Thing Would Blow Up!, by Gecole Harley and Terry A. Wolfer
6. Child Collectors?, by Lori D. Franklin
7. I'm a Social Worker!, by Karen A. Gray and Julie Sprinkle
8. Flying Flags in Alabama, by Noël Busch-Armendariz, Dawnovise N. Fowler, and Terry A. Wolfer
9. Private, Dismissed, by Michelle Hovis and Lori D. Franklin
10. Wandering, by Lori D. Franklin and Danielle R. Snyder
11. A Matter of Life and Death?, by Susy Villegas, Mónica M. Alzate, and Karen A. Gray
12. Exposed, by David Pooler and Terry A. Wolfer
13. Nowhere to Skate, by Laura B. Poindexter and Terry A. Wolfer
14. Driven to Drink, by Terry A. Wolfer
15. "Don't Tell Her," by Sean Siberio and Terry A. Wolfer
Index