Social Treatment: An Approach to Interpersonal Helping

by James Whittaker and James K. Whittaker

Book Overview

The book has two principal purposes: To provide an introduction to interpersonal helping in the context of social work practice, and to develop a conceptual framework for interpersonal helping --called social treatment--that will enable the social worker and members of other helping professions effectively to use all the various methods and strategies currently practiced. The book offers an orderly and systematic way of proceeding through a complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202360121
• ISBN13: 9780202360126
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"