In recent years, advocates for civil rights for minorities,
women, and gays and lesbians have become more informed consumers of
mental health services. As a result, social work practitioners need
to prepare themselves to serve diverse constituencies for who
previously held behavioral and cultural assumptions have proven not
to be universally applicable. The purpose of Greene's book is to
help students and practitioners better understand how social
workers have used human behavior theories to more competently
address variations in group and community membership within the
social worker-client encounter.
The book's approach is largely thematic. Most of the chapters
explore how particular assumptions of a human behavior
theory--psychoanalytic theory, psychodynamic/ego psychology theory,
systems theory, behavioral theory, symbolic interaction theory,
feminist theory, constructionist theory, small group theory, and an
ecological perspective --have been used to answer issues related to
cultural diversity. The challenges and limitations of each theory's
applications across varying client constituencies are discussed
throughout. What sorts of new conceptual issues for the
practitioner of family services are raised in work with minority
families, for example, or with lesbian families? How does a
specific theory help, or not help, in group-specific interventions
and evaluations?
Intended as a companion volume to the widely adopted human
behavior text by Greene and Ephross, Greene's new book fills the
need for a wide, synthetic reading of the recent literature on
divergent client populations.
"Roberta R. Greene" is the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair
in Gerontology and Social Welfare at the University of Texas at
Austin. She has authored numerous books and journal articles
dealing with the application of conceptual frameworks to social
work practice. She is a member of the editorial board of the
"Journal of Social Work Education."
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