Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice: Confronting Complexity (Paperback)

Terry Wolfer; Clinical Assistant Professor Lori Franklin; Assistant Professor Karen Gray
Columbia University Press
9780231159852
0-231-15985-4

These fifteen cases take place in child welfare, mental health, hospital, hospice, domestic violence, refugee resettlement, veterans' administration, and school settings and reflect individual, family,.

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group, and supervised social work practice. They confront common ethical and treatment issues and raise issues regarding practice interventions, programs, policies, and laws. Cases represent open-ended situations, encouraging students to apply knowledge from across the social work curriculum to develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. An instructor's manual with teaching notes is available by emailing: coursematerials@columbiauniversitypress.com.