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Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare - Helping Children, Adults, and Families in Community Settings (Hardcover)
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Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare - Helping Children, Adults, and Families in Community Settings (Hardcover)
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"Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare" offers positive proof that
behaviorism has come of age in social work. Steven Paul Schinke and
the contributors to this volume are social work practitioners who
document their attempts to extend the basic tenets of behavioral
psychology from the laboratory, clinic, and classroom to the full
range of client groups and social problems that make up the
practice of social work. In social work education, traditionally to
the extent it appeared in the curriculum at all, behavioral content
appeared in electives or in courses not focused on practice. It is
a true measure of progress that behavioral methods are now visible,
integral component of social work education and practice.The
authors of each piece in this collection indicate progress in
developing an empirically based approach to social work practice.
Despite the impressive documentation contained in the present
volume, no conclusive evidence as to the effectiveness of
behavioral methods exists. What behavioral methods do offer,
however, is a systematic format for both problem intervention and
evaluation that, over time, should produce a more empirically based
practice. A promising sign, well documented in the present effort,
is the facility with which this book has subjected practice
procedures to the rigor of research and evaluation.This blending of
clinical practice and research develops the sense of competence
that student-practitioners acquire in understanding and controlling
both the art and science of their clinical practice. Steven Schinke
and his colleagues offer a series of "snapshots" of important work
in process. Their collective portrait provides a fresh perspective
and new stimulus for all social work practice, as well as an
affirmation that disciplined, responsive, and sensitive social work
intervention can make a difference in the lives of people.
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