Empowerment practice with families in distress

Empowerment practice with families in distress /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wise, Judith Bula (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Series:Empowering the powerless.
Subjects:
Family social work.
Social work with people with social disabilities.
Dysfunctional families > Services for.
Power (Social sciences)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
Dysfunctional families > Services for
Family social work
Social work with people with social disabilities
Service social familial.
Famille dysfonctionnelle.
Handicapé social.
Responsabilisation.
Pouvoir.
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Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • A family-centered empowerment framework
  • Empowerment then and now
  • Seeing families through an empowerment lens
  • Three family profiles: the journey from oppression to empowerment
  • The Laurencio-Smith family: our differences saved us
  • The Williams family: new lives beyond incest
  • The Brown-Wiley family: homeless no more
  • Helping families
  • The phases and actions of empowering practice
  • A closer look at families with their communities
  • Empowering families with community resources
  • Supporting theories that empower social worker-family transactions.

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