Social Work with Families: Content and Process - Softcover

Constable and Lee do a masterful job of clearly presenting traditoinal family therapy theories and intervention techniques.... Based on a transcultural approach to understanding behavior in family constellations, this book successfully makes a case for assessment and intervention adopting family therapy approaches. --Social Development Issues ...Social Work with Families, by Robert Constable and Daniel B. Lee, advances family-centered social work practice for the 21st century. In this updated version of their earlier volume, they deconstruct, integrate, and synthesize core approaches and present evidence-based practices in soical wokr practice with families. But unlike a traditional text that provides analytic and integrative frames based solely on the work of other theorists and disciplines, Constable and Lee advance practice by drawing on their own key frameworks such as building family solidarity and relationship justice. --Journal of Teaching in Social Work "Constable and Lee do a masterful job of clearly presenting traditional family therapy theories and intervention techniques... Using this book as a tool to supplement lectures and practice exercises in the classroom would improve the understanding of advanced students interested in social work practice with families." --Social Development Issues

Social Work with Families illustrates how social work practice can identify, utilize, build upon, and reinforce the unique strengths of families to help family systems become more effective in the face of certain challenges. Constable and Lee integrate the most recent developments in theory, technique, and research into the century-old tradition of social work practice with families and couples. They have developed a clear, flexible, strengths-based approach that accommodates family and individual intervention and multiple methodologies, as well as the social institutional contexts in which social workers practice. This new edition focuses on the current trends in family therapy and explores the possibilities of broadening the scope of services that social workers can provide to families and couples in all settings.