Task-Centered System

Politics & Social Sciences

Reid, William J.

Social Sciences

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Research in Social Work

History

Fortune, Anne

Smith, Audrey

Americas

Columbia University Press

Family problem solving

Family Problem Solving

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Sets forth a scientific framework for practicing and examining applications of research concepts and techniques for social workers

Establishes a methodology for a generalist medical practice by applying a structured, short-term, problem-solving approach that can be used with many different theoretical orientations to deal with individual, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Intended for practice classes for undergraduate and entry-level graduate students. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Generalist Practice

Garvin, Charles D.

Tolson, Eleanor Reardon

Generalist Practice: A Task-Centered Approach

Garvi N, Charles D.

In Task Strategies: An Empirical Approach to Clinical Social Work William Reid focuses on task-centered intervention strategies to attain a variety of goals that regularly arise in short-term clinical work with both individuals and families. These strategies involve problem-solving actions or tasks carried out by clients in the treatment session, at home, or in the community. A task consists of acting in a planned way to solve a problem, rather than talking about the problem as a means to develop insight or promote personal growth. Reid emphasizes a collaborative effort in which practitioners help clients design, plan, practice, and implement tasks and learn to resolve difficulties through their own problem-solving actions, especially outside the treatment session.Task Strategies presents an in-depth examination of intervention strategies suitable for common problems encountered by clinical social workers: difficulties experienced by families and children, anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, inadequate resources, and psychosocial problems associated with mental and physical illness. Reid presents specific strategies that all practitioners, regardless of their theoretical persuasion, can use to treat these problems. The book also provides a synthesis of recent developments in behavioral, cognitive, and family therapies within the framework of the task-centered approach.Based on the task-centered practice model empirically tested and refined over the last two decades, Task Strategies will prove to be essential for students and practitioners of clinical social work.

Task Strategies: An Empirical Approach to Clinical Social Work

A basic textbook for social work practice courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level that provides a generalist and problem-solving orientation. The book seeks to establish a "task-centered" methodology -- a structured, short-term, problem-solving approach -- applicable across systems at five levels of practice: the individual, the family, the group, organizations, and communities. Each section discusses pretreatment considerations right through to termination. A numbering system helps the reader follow particular topics and checklists, questions for consideration, and practice exercises help students monitor their understanding and skill development.

Gavin, Charles

Sex Among Allies

This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.

A comprehensive, A-to-Z set of task planners for more than one hundred psychosocial problems from alcoholism and anxiety to domestic violence and sexual abuse. Each entry includes a menu of actions the client can undertake to affect resolution, a guide to the practitioner's role in facilitating these actions, and a reference list. An accompanying disk allows social workers to update the task planners they are working with and enables keyword searches for specific topics.

The Task Planner

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