Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress /

Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress / / Judith Bula Wise.

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For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work with families, but the techniques of today differ significantly from those of the pioneers or even from those of a few years ago. Today's practitioners recognize that empowering others is impossible; so...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Wise, Judith Bula,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 9 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editor's Note
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. A Family-Centered Empowerment Framework
  • 1. Empowerment Then and Now
  • 2. Seeing Families Through an Empowerment Lens
  • Part II. Three Family Profiles: The Journey from Oppression to Empowerment
  • 3. The Laurencio-Smith Family: Our Differences Saved Us
  • 4. The Williams Family: New Lives Beyond Incest
  • 5. The Brown-Wiley Family: Homeless No More
  • Part III. Helping Families
  • 6. The Phases and Actions of Empowering Practice
  • Part IV. A Closer Look at Families WITH Their Communities
  • 7. Empowering Families with Community Resources
  • 8. Supporting Theories that Empower Social Worker-Family Transactions
  • Appendix A. Cross-Cultural Counseling Competencies: A Conceptual Framework
  • Appendix B. The Family Power Analysis
  • References
  • Index

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