In-Service Casework Training / / Elizabeth Nicholds.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Nicholds, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1966]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 1966
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

A guide written to help new social workers withstand the burden of dealing with other people's troubles, to face up to hostile uncooperative clients, and to get a sufficient grasp of human motivations so that they can have confidence in their ability to help and avoid blunders that might result in damage to some already damaged clients.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Why a New Caseworker Needs to Study -- II. The Intake Process -- III. Recording the Intake Process -- IV. Communication -- V. Concise Recording -- VI. Recording the Interview in Depth -- VII. Termination of a Case -- VIII. Measurement of Case Movement -- IX. Measuring Movement in the Wilcox Case -- X. Methods of Coping -- XI. The Infant -- XII. The Toddler -- XIII. The Preschooler -- XIV. The Gradester -- XV. The Adolescent -- XVI. Helping the Unwed Mother -- XVII. Evaluation of Family Strengths -- XVIII. Outline for the Evaluation of the Family -- XIX. Evaluation of Two Families -- XX. Family Interviews -- XXI. The Use and Misuse of Authority -- XXII. When a Child Must Be Taken from His Own Home -- XXIII. Helping Resistive Parents -- XXIV. Clients with Character Disorders -- XXV. Management of Money -- XXVI. Counseling the Family of a Mentally Retarded Person -- XXVII. New Supervisors -- Bibliography -- Index