This sweeping volume builds the much-needed bridge between books on community practice and on clinical practice, including 33 chapters written by expert social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists specifically for clinicians making the transition to community-based work.
This is the first handbook to specifically address this gap and provide meaningful guidance for today's community practitioners. Its overarching goal is to support the ongoing development of community-based mental health care, drawing on a wealth of practical examples. This groundbreaking
collection not only outlines the history and philosophy of community practice but richly illustrates the state of the art with examples from early intervention and development programs, school-based practice, and community mental health services for children, families, and adults.
Community-based clinicians of every stripe will find this handbook indispensable for understanding, improving, and evaluating their practice while enriching the health and well-being of their clients and their communities.
This sweeping volume builds the much-needed bridge between books on community practice and on clinical practice, including 33 chapters written by expert social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists specifically for clinicians making the transition to community-based work.
This is the first handbook to specifically address this gap and provide meaningful guidance for today's community practitioners. Its overarching goal is to support the ongoing development of community-based mental health care, drawing on a wealth of practical examples. This groundbreaking
collection not only outlines the history and philosophy of community practice but richly illustrates the state of the art with examples from early intervention and development programs, school-based practice, and community mental health services for children, families, and adults.
Community-based clinicians of every stripe will find this handbook indispensable for understanding, improving, and evaluating their practice while enriching the health and well-being of their clients and their communities.
I: Introduction and Model of Practice
1: What Is Community-Based Clinical Practice?: Traditions and
Transformations, Phebe Sessions and Anita Lightburn
2: Community-Based Clinical Practice: Recreating the Culture of
Care, Anita Lightburn and Phebe Sessions
II: Paradigm Shift and System Essentials
3: In the Care of Strangers, Ann Weick
4: A Paradigm Shift in Developmental Perspectives?: The Self in
Context, Dennis Saleebey
5: Ideas of Self and Community: Expanding Possibilities for
Practice, Carol R. Swenson
6: A Communal Perspective for Relational Therapies, Lynn
Hoffman
7: Toward Critical Social Practices: Hermeneutics, Poetics, and
Micropolitics in Community Mental Health, Marcelo Pakman
8: Culturally Competent Community-Based Practice: A Critical
Review, Maria D. Corwin
9: Similarity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Practice: An
Anthropological Perspective, Catherine Nye
10: The Road to Becoming an Anti-Racism Organization, Susan E.
Donner and Joshua Miller
11: Family and Network Training for A System Of Care: "A Pedagogy
Of Hope," Mary E. Olson
12: Evaluating Community-Based Clinical Practice, Martha Morrison
Dore and Anita Lightburn
III: The Leadership Journey in Community-Based Clinical Practice:
Practice, Theory and Policy
13: The Network Context of Network Therapy: A Story from the
European Nordic North, Tom Andersen
14: Unitas: Therapy for Youth in a Street Society, Edward P.
Eismann
15: Pathways to Reforming Children's Mental Health Service Systems:
Public and Personal, Judith C. Meyers
16: The Development of a Community-Based System of Care, Susan C.
Ayers and D. Russell Lyman
IV: Practice Examples
A: Early Intervention and Family Support
17: Family of Friends: Creating a Supportive Day Care Community to
Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect, Martha Morrison Dore, Nancy
Feldman, Amy Winnick Gelles
18: Developing a Community-Based Model for Integrated Family Center
Practice, Chris Warren-Adamson and Anita Lightburn
19: Children and HIV: A Model of Home-Based Mental Health
Treatment, Sandra Gossart-Walker and Robert A. Murphy
B: School-Based Practice
20: Partners for Success: Ten Years of Collaboration Between a
School for Social Work and an Urban Public School System, Phebe
Sessions and Verba Fanolis
21: School-Based Clinical Practice and School Reform: Application
of Clinical Social Work to the School Development Program, Joanne
Corbin
22: Social Work and the "Community of Concern" in an Urban American
Public Elementary School: An Interim Report, E. Martin Schotz, Ruth
Grossman Dean, and Jane Crosby
23: School-Based Psychoeducational Groups on Trauma Designed to
Decrease Reenactment, Ann Marie Glodich, Jon G. Allen, Jim Fultz,
George Thompson, Cindy Arnold-Whitney, Cheri Varvil, and Chris
Moody
C: Community-Based Mental Health Services for Children and
Families
24: Working With High-Risk Children and Families in Their Own
Homes: An Integrative Approach to the Treatment of Vulnerable
Children, Jean Adnopoz
25: The Ecology of Intensive Community-Based Intervention, D.
Russell Lyman, and Borja Alvarez de Toledo
26: Creating a Community of Care for Seriously Emotionally
Distressed Youth: The Mott Haven Initiative, a System of Care
Experience, Katherine Gordy Levine
27: Police-Mental Health Collaboration on Behalf of Children
Exposed to Violence: The Child Development-Community Policing
Program Model, Stephen Marans and Miriam Berkman
28: It Takes a Community to Help an Adolescent: Community-Based
Clinical Services for Immigrant Adolescents, Roni Berger
29: The Neighborhood Place: An Alternative Mental Health Program,
Paula Armbruster, Laura Ewing, Virginia DeVarennes, Abigail
Prestin, Lisa Lochner, Ursula Chock, and Saglar Bougdaeva
B: Community Mental Health for Adults
30: Recovery Guides: An Emerging Model of Community-Based Care for
Adults With Psychiatric Disabilities, Larry Davidson, Janis
Tondora, Martha Staeheli, Maria O'Connell, Jennifer Frey, Matthew
J. Chinman
31: Open Dialogue Integrates Individual and Systemic Approaches in
Serious Psychiatric Crises, Jaakko Seikkula
32: Gjakova: The First Community Mental Health Center in Kosovo,
Ellen Pulleyblank-Coffey, James Griffith, and Jusuf Ulaj
33: Critical Incident Debriefings and Community-Based Clinical
Care, Joshua Miller
Clinicians from virtually any area of practice can find something in this book that could be useful for elucidating and developing their practice as clients come from and return to their communities. This book could be a textbook in a course on community-based clinical mental health practice. Clinical Social Work Journal Vol 35, No 1
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