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It is hard to think of a more timely and topical major contribution
than Drs. Naparstek, Biegel, Spiro, and collaborators have provided
in this volume. Their penetrating, comprehensive study and field
tests give us mapping toward the goal of reifying the concept of
"community" as applied to human services. The book will prove
invaluable to those at the policy level-legislators, planners, and
administrators. It will serve as an essential reference for
community workers-professional provid ers, natural helpers, and
citizens as a whole. A salient ideal of New Federalism-placing
governance as close to the people as practicable-seems a prophetic
match with the model of Neighborhood Empowerment. As the authors
point out, conventional wisdom has seemed to offer government
regulation, control, and pro gram evaluation as a panacea package
for improving human services. This work suggests a radically
different approach; specifically, a shift to greater instrumental
involvement of the richly variegated mosaic of American
neighborhoods, combined with a system of excellent, high technology
service agencies. Certainly, genuine efforts have been made before
toward a true linkage of the community with human services. The
Great Society pro grams, with their emphasis on citizen involvement
and "maximum fea sible participation" established the foundation
for legitimate citizen/ consumer linkage with the program process.
Yet, in so many instances, the results fell far short of
expectations.
Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery Across the Lifespan is the first book in Oxford's new social work series Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery with Vulnerable Populations. This book will introduce practitioners and students to new strategies and innovations to effectively deal with a range of problems across the lifespan such as homelessness, alcohol and drug abuse, teen violence, and mental illness. The book is divided into four parts: a conceptual overview, children and adolescents, adults and the elderly. It offers an interdisciplinary approach to practice and service delivery with these populations and the contributors are leading scholars in social work and mental health services. It is an ideal text for students in clinical practice courses or for practitioners interestd in the latest practice and service delivery innovations.
Published in cooperation with the Center for Practice Innovations,
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve
University Increased life expectancy, the deinstitutionalization of
persons with mental illness, the rise of home health care, and
advances in medical technology have resulted in greater numbers of
dependent people requiring care by family members. The frail
elderly, the chronically mentally ill, and the physically disabled
are examples of such groups who now receive their daily care in the
community. How do families accept the burden of this care? What are
the physical and emotional demands of such caregiving? Are the
families prepared to assume this role? Family Caregiving Across the
Lifespan considers the broad spectrum of chronic illnesses that
necessitate family caregiving throughout the lifespan and expands
the caregiving paradigm by including in its focus both members of
the caregiving dyad and significant non-family caregivers. It also
explores the social context in which care is provided--an entire
section of the volume is devoted to discussions of the interface
between informal and formal caregivers and society at large. Among
the other subjects this volume addresses are the negative
consequences of family caregiving, the value of providing support
to caregivers, and caregivers of persons living with AIDS. Family
Caregiving Across the Lifespan is important reading for those in
social work, nursing, family medicine, and clinical psychology.
"Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan represents a significant
milestone in the continuing maturation of this vital area of
long-term care. The title is an understatement of the authors'
accomplishments. . . .Rather than offering narrow boxes or labels,
the book invites the reader to join in a broadened perspective on
caregiving so that it can more fully reflect the richness of the
lives of all involved. . . .For those who encounter Family
Caregiving Across the Lifespan as part of their continuing study of
caregiving, the book provides the integrating milestone of
caregiving literature." --Journal of Case Management "This volume
is a useful compendium of articles on family caregiving. The
fourteen chapters in this volume address many important topics in
family caregiving. One of the book's major contributions is its
clarification that family caregiving to frail or chronically ill
people has no age limitation, although there are unique issues at
different points in the development of individuals and families.
The book has exceptional merit. It expands our understanding of
family caregiving, provides important ideas for future research,
offers research findings that enhance our understanding of family
care, and presents a very useful review of the literature. This
book would be a beneficial addition to the library of all
researchers in the area of caregiving. They will discover
worthwhile conceptualizations and gain new insights that can inform
their research. Practitioners should also benefit from this
collection. The chapters addressing interaction between forma land
informal caregivers should give practitioners a deeper
understanding of how to be more effective in dealing with informal
caregivers and care recipients." -Ageing & Society "One paper
[in this volume] deserves particular notice because it attempts to
do what many of the authors feel is most critical in caregiving
research but also most difficult, namely, to analyze the
effectiveness of caregiving, the effect of provision of care on
elder health outcomes. This is an important and original
conceptualization of the problem..." -Steven M. Albert,
Contemporary Gerontology "This book is both unique and valuable
because it embraces Brody's observation that family caregiving is
not limited to a specific segment of the life span. Moreover, the
book is not limited to filial caregiving, but entertains an
impressive variety of contexts of family caregiving. . . . This
book will be a valuable text in graduate-level courses." --Journal
of Marriage and the Family
Among the significant trends in human services during the 1980s has
been the emergence of emphasis on social networks and social
supports in research, prevention, and treatment efforts. Today's
human service professionals and planners routinely incorporate
information about social networks and social supports into
assessments and interventions for a wide range of individual and
community problems. Social Support Networks is the most
comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography yet published on the theory,
research, and practical application of social support networks.
Containing approximately 2,700 references, it offers detailed
listings for journal articles, books, book chapters, and published
reports which appeared from 1983 to 1987. In recent years, social
support networks have become a focus for research and scholarship
in anthropology, epidemiology, nursing, psychiatry, psychology,
public health, social work, and sociology. The literature
represented in this bibliography includes a focus on theory,
research, practice, and policy drawn from these as well as other
disciplines. As such, the volume lends itself to the transfer of
ideas and practice across various branches of the social support
intervention field, particularly addressing the requirements of
practitioners who may feel they have become limited in their
response to social problems by relying on their agencies'
traditional ways of meeting client needs. The bibliography is
divided into five major headings: Overview and Theory,
Research-Physical Health, Research-Mental Health, Intervention, and
Professional Roles and Policy, and all entries are consecutively
numbered to aid cross-referencing by the Author and Subject
Indexes. To further facilitate cross-referencing, many Subject
Index terms also have sub-indices. This important reference tool
will be welcomed by service providers and planners in gerontology,
nursing, psychiatry, psychology, public health, social work,
sociology, anthropology, and urban affairs.
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