Main description:

Describes common approaches used in clinical practice and provides case illustrations to demonstrate the proper application of these techniques.
Illustrates basic clinical skills that cut across models and paradigms, such as establishing therapeutic relationships.
Addresses the issue of beginner anxiety and its role in clinical errors, providing advice on how to take on and cope with the responsibility of working with those who are suffering.
Offers key guidance on how clinical social workers can incorporate a social justice perspective into their practice.
Integrates research with the author's own practice wisdom, garnered from over 30 years of clinical social work practice, teaching, research, and supervision.
Includes questions for discussion, further reading, and essay questions relating to each chapter.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Social Workers' Relationship to Themselves

Chapter 2: Clinical Social Work Defined: Psychotherapy Plus

Chapter 3: Tips for Getting Started

Chapter 4: Clinical Social Work with Individuals: It's About the Relationship

Chapter 5: Healing Relationships with Each Other-Part I: Couples

Chapter 6: Healing Relationships with Each Other-Part II: Families

Chapter 7: Healing Relationship with Each Other-Part III: Groups

Chapter 8: Healing Relationships with Clients from Diverse and Oppressed Groups

Chapter 9: Ethics: Protecting the Healing Relationship

Chapter 10: Healing Relationships in the Age of CovidEpilogue: Some Closing Thoughts

Appendix: Questions for Individual Self-Reflection and

Class Discussion

Appendix: Questions for Individual Self-Reflection and Class Discussion