New Approaches to Family Practice: Confronting Economic Stress

By Nancy R. Vosler and Anne "Nancy" R. Vosler

To what extent do economic stresses - such as dual-earner parents, unemployment//underemployment and poverty in the family - affect a social worker's assessment of the families in their care?

Families, Work, and Poverty applies a wealth of current research driven by the family systems theoretical framework to social work practice with families in three specific areas: employed-work and family- work; unemployment; and poverty. The book presents chapters on the theory and research in these three target areas, each followed by a chapter on applications and tools for direct practice in that area. Each applications chapter includes a case study, assessment tools, multilevel interventions and evaluations, and strategies for social

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761900322
• ISBN13: 9780761900320
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"