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The Integration of Solution-Focused and Behavioral Marital Therapies
Authors: BECKER CARRIE , CORCORAN JACQUELINE , GARELL KRISTIN A. 
Published: January 2009

Abstract
This chapter applies the strengths- and skills-building model in a couples modality. In solution-focused therapy, clients are asked questions that will focus on the positive aspects of their partner's behavior and the small improvements that will signal a positive change. An emphasis on exceptions is believed to result in both changed perceptions of the partner's behavior and an expansion of desired behaviors. Motivational interviewing can be used in a couples format when partners are ambivalent about staying in the relationship, attending counseling, or following through with skills taught in couples therapy. Both behavioral and solution-focused approaches center on specific behaviors rather than interpretations partners make of each other, which are often negative attributions of the partner's intent. Such negative attributions can be reframed to reflect a more positive intent. Conversations about the past, which is seen as impossible to change, are transformed into descriptions of desired actions by the partner. These principles are translated into a case example involving a couple in which the husband suffers from a long-standing anxiety disorder.
Violence in the Home
Authors: Kurst-Swanger Karel , Petcosky Jacqueline L. 
Published: January 2009

Abstract
Violence in the home is one of the most damaging and widespread of social problems. It is an issue that cuts across all socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, gender, and age boundaries. Abuse and neglect can be found in all types of families and interpersonal relationships, and can take many forms including emotional, physical, financial, and sexual abuse. This book brings together the scholarly research and professional experience of numerous disciplines and reviews theoretical explanations. Taking a unique approach to defining family, it examines the complex, multidimensional phenomena of family violence. To further broaden an understanding of interpersonal violence, the book addresses violence against pseudo families, animals, siblings, and parents. It investigates the evolution of systems and institutions that interact with families and are mandated to provide protection and services, and explores the current debates surrounding public policy. In addition, the book explores the role of power in abusive relationships and considers the short- and long-term consequences of abuse. Also discussed are potential solutions for violence prevention.
Pseudo Families: Caregiver/Institutional Maltreatment
Authors: Kurst-Swanger Karel , Petcosky Jacqueline L. 
Published: January 2009

Abstract
This chapter focuses on the maltreatment of children and adults in out-of-home care settings in which they are being cared for by pseudo families. These environments are much like traditional families in that they serve many of the same functions such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and social interaction. To distinguish this population from other types of families they are referred to as “pseudo” families. The chapter provides an argument that abuse within institutional settings is an appropriate issue to discuss within the context of family violence. The evolution of institutional care settings is discussed and the central role abuse has played in such facilities is also examined. It explores research related to the impact of institutional life on its residents and the process of institutionalization. It discusses the forms of maltreatment found within various settings, its consequences, and the systems that operate to intervene in such circumstances.
Jewish Music and Modernity
Authors: Bohlman Philip 
Published: January 2009

AbstractIs there really such a thing as Jewish music? And does it survive as an expressive practice of worship and identity against modernity? This book poses such questions in new and critical ways by surveying a vast diasporic landscape, taking into consideration the many ways music historically witnessed the confrontation between modern Jews and the world around them, from the waning of the Middle Ages until the Holocaust. The book examines the confluence of many styles and repertories as Jewish music: the sacred and the secular; folk and popular music; songs in which Jewish languages — Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew — survived in isolation and songs that transformed the nations in which they lived. When Jewish music entered modernity, authenticity became an ideal supplanted by composite traditions. Klezmer music emerged in communities cohabited by Jews and Roma; Jewish cabaret resulted from the collaborations of migrant Jews and non-Jews in nineteenth-century Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna; cantors and composers experimented with new sounds. Modern Jewish music was and is varied, and this book is notable for the ways in which the borders between repertories are crossed and modernity is enriched by the shift of Jewish music from cultural peripheries to the center. Understanding the crisis of modernity — the Holocaust and its aftermath — is crucial to the challenge this book poses for understanding music in our own day.
EPILOGUE: AFTER JEWISH MUSIC
Authors: Bohlman Philip V. 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis epilogue draws the reader into the ethnographic present: the performance of Jewish music in a postmodern world. Starting with a concert performance of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, for which the author is the Artistic Director, the chapter asks questions about the possibility of revival after the end of Jewish music history. Jewish music, in popular and art genres, may thrive in revival in the twenty-first century, but as phenomena such as the popularity of klezmer in the nations that perpetrated the Holocaust signal a return to history or a release from history. The processes of cultural negotiation and historicism provide contexts for Jewish music in a postmodern world no less than in modernity.
World of Faith and Freedom
Authors: Farr Thomas F. 
Published: January 2009

Abstract
The global resurgence of public religion has major implications for America's vital interests abroad and its security at home. The 1979 Shiite revolution in Iran, the Catholic contribution to the “third wave” of democratization, the 9/11 attacks — all demonstrate just how important a force religion has become. And yet, despite being the most religious nation in the West, the United States has not adjusted well to religious actors in international affairs. Its policy makers and diplomats seem either ignorant or baffled about religious ideas, communities or movements. American security has suffered as a result. In the broader Middle East, Russia, India, and elsewhere, U.S. reluctance to engage religious actors and political theologies has handicapped the development of stable democracy. In China, U.S. religious freedom policy has amounted to little more than occasional demands for prisoner releases. In fact, U.S. policy worldwide has been characterized more by an anemic opposition to religious persecution than to the actual advancement of religious freedom. This book examines the origins and nature of U.S. diplomacy's “religion avoidance syndrome,” and offers remedies. Focusing on the importance of religion to human nature, it develops a broad-based concept of religious freedom as necessary to human flourishing and stable democracy. It explores why scholars and policy makers have, in the nation's democracy promotion and religious freedom policies, ignored the salience of religion in human affairs. Three chapters chronicle the author's adventures in the Department of State under two administrations, and in his travels to advance religious liberty. The book ends with extensive examinations of two of the most vexing challenges for U.S. foreign policy — Islam and China. Along the way it provides concrete proposals for correcting the deficiencies of American policy and engaging more effectively a world of faith.
Youth-Led Community Organizing
Authors: Delgado Melvin , Staples Lee 
Published: January 2009

AbstractYouth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. This book studies this dynamic field. It takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area. The book’s social justice-rooted perspective on the field’s conceptual and practical foundations is an effective basis for analyzing youth-led community organizing, but it also offers glimpses of successful groups in action and helpful insight into how fledgling organizations can become stronger. These groups and their young participants represent the politics and activism of the future, and the book guides to their key aspects and recent developments.
Overview of Community Organizing, Youth-Led Field, and Youth-Led Organizing
Authors: Delgado Melvin , Staples Lee 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter discusses the growth of youth-led organizing since the mid-1990s. Topics covered include historical overviews of community organization and youth-led community organizing, hip-hop activism, the scope and range of the organizational settings in which youth-led organizing is carried out, and models of youth-led community organizing.
Guiding Principles and Analytical Framework
Authors: Delgado Melvin , Staples Lee 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter discusses the principles and an analytical framework for youth-led community organizing. Specifically, it presents nine principles and ten elements of the analytical framework aimed at helping both practitioners and academics better appreciate the dynamic nature of social interventions such as youth-led community organizing. The nine principles capture a broad arena for readers, while the ten elements constitute the analytical framework used to examine youth-led organizing in the United States.
Leadership Development
Authors: Delgado Melvin , Staples Lee 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter explores youth leadership within the context of youth-led community organizing. It discusses the manifestations of leadership in youth development and tensions in youth leadership. It then outlines the characteristics of effective youth community leaders including open-mindedness, critical thinking, commitment to a cause, anger at social injustice, belief in social justice, and eagerness to learn.
Youth First in Jackson Square! (¡Jovenes Primero!)
Authors: Delgado Melvin , Staples Lee 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter presents a case study to illustrate how youth-led community organizing can be done and how local circumstances help shape these efforts. Hyde/Jackson Square is an area that has been described by the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay as one of the most densely populated minority-youth concentrations in the city of Boston. The chapter describes the formation of the Hyde Square Task Force and its participation in planning for the Jackson Square Development Area. It is shown that the campaign to establish a youth and family center emerged from the context of a traditional turf-based organizing effort by the Hyde Square Task Force that initially focused on gang and drug violence. As neighborhood residents joined together to gain greater control over the redevelopment of the area, the need for a youth center surfaced through a true “bottom-up” community-driven strategic planning process initiated by the task force’s executive director. Once it became clear that youth programming was an essential priority, and large numbers of young people became directly involved in the action group, strong elements of identity organizing based on age also emerged.
A Brief History of Interdependence
Authors: McMahan David L. 
Published: January 2009

Abstract
The idea of interdependence has assumed a central role in contemporary Buddhism, especially in the West. This chapter traces the way by which dependent origination (pratitya-samutpada) in early Buddhism was transmuted from a causal chain binding beings to samsara—something to get free from—into contemporary interpretations of interdependence as a web of interconnected beings and events to celebrate, embrace, and become one with. The early conception of dependent origination is first reframed in the Mahayana, through ideas such as interpenetration in the Avatamsaka Sutra and the reverence for the natural world in East Asia. The concept then picks up western influences from Romanticism, Transcendentalism, systems theory, deep ecology, and popular accounts of quantum physics. The recent synthesis of these elements is a hybrid concept of interdependence unique to contemporary Buddhism that combines cosmology and world-affirming wonder with ethical, political, and ecological imperatives.
Mindfulness, Literature, and the Affirmation of Ordinary Life
Authors: McMahan David L. 
Published: January 2009

Abstract
This chapter examines the conditions under which Buddhist practices of mindfulness have come to take on a new significance within the context of modernity’s broad affirmation of the ordinary world. More specifically, modern articulations of mindfulness are informed by modern literature’s valorization of the details of everyday life, its finely tuned descriptions of the flow of consciousness, and its new reverence for ordinary objects and their capacity to reflect the universal. These are reflected in the work of authors like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Herman Hesse, who have been hidden resources for a modern re-interpretation of mindfulness. Further, this understanding provides a distinctively modern way of re-sacralizing and re-enchanting the world without resort to the supernatural, as in the work of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Formulate an Answerable Practice Question
Authors: Macgowan Mark J. 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter describes the first stage of evidence-based group work (EBGW), formulating an answerable practice question. Questions may arise in five areas in group work: the group change theory, the individual group member, group structural factors, group processes, and group leadership. EBGW begins with a real clinical concern in these areas, developed into a well-constructed question. These questions must be relevant to members' issues, must be answerable, and be practical. They should be constructed a certain way, including three specific components: specific member or group challenge, intervention or technique, and an outcome. Questions should also be parsimonious, but include enough information to produce a manageable amount of evidence in the first search. Two case examples illustrate how answerable practice questions are formulated.
Apply the Evidence and Evaluate the Achievement of Desired Outcomes
Authors: Macgowan Mark J. 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter describes the fourth and final stage of evidence-based group work (EBGW), applying the evidence into practice and evaluating its effects. Application and evaluation are not separate endeavors but intertwined in a circular and iterative process. Group workers apply the best available evidence into practice, remaining as faithful to the original intervention/technique as possible adapting only where necessary, monitoring its effects using measures and a research design that structures the evaluation process, recording results, and determining how to improve both the evaluation and the practice. Thus, the process does not just end with knowing if the evidence “worked,” but continues with a systematic, critical process of improving practice based on the ongoing results of the application in practice and evaluation. Three case examples illustrate the two main steps of the chapter: application and evaluation to ensure desired results.
Advancing Evidence-Based Group Work in Research, Clinical Practice, and Education
Authors: Macgowan Mark J. 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis final chapter discusses how evidence-based group work (EBGW) can be advanced in clinical settings, research, and education. There is a need for more research evidence about group work and articles about the application of EBGW in practice, including studies on the effectiveness of EBGW. The chapter includes strategies for building support for EBGW in organizations. It also describes how to advance EBGW in higher and continuing education and it highlights the validity of problem-based learning in teaching about EBGW. The Translational Research approach is offered as a model to advance EBGW research, practice, and education. In that model, there would be a planned and systemic collaboration between researchers, educators, and practitioners. Organizational structures would be supportive of EBGW, research would be practice-relevant and readily available to group workers, and education and consultation would be ongoing.
Access Challenges to Service Delivery
Authors: Delgado Melvin 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter discusses how service access has been conceptualized over an extended period of time, and offers a variety of frameworks from which to develop a better understanding of different ways of viewing culture as an important construct in the development of services. It also provides a framework for a multifaceted perspective on access to services. These two frameworks in combination serve as theoretical and practical guides for understanding the barriers Latinos face in receiving social services, and must be utilized simultaneously to achieve their intended goals. Finally, two critical social systems with particular relevance to the issue of access are discussed (correctional and child welfare).
A Cultural Assets Paradigm: A Conceptual Foundation
Authors: Delgado Melvin 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter discusses a Latino cultural assets paradigm. The paradigm is based on scholarship originating in the 1980s and 1990s, and integrates empirically-based evidence with practice wisdom achieved during a career developed in urban practice with marginalized communities of color, particularly Latinos. It argues that federal, state, and local government, and other sectors must work with community assets in any formation of social policies and programs. Failure to do so will essentially result in wasted resources and further alienating communities in the process.
Epilogue
Authors: Delgado Melvin 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis epilogue focuses on the lessons learned in planning and implementing a cultural assets paradigm with Latinos. It identifies overarching themes related to the use of this paradigm, drawing from the case studies presented in Chapter 8, along with theoretical matters covered in the literature. The chapter presents key factors, issues, and considerations that emerged through the writing of this book, with implications for future social work practice.
Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment
Authors: Trocmé Nico 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter presents a summary of current research on the epidemiology of child maltreatment in the United States and Canada to provide a better understanding of the scope and distribution of child maltreatment. It presents definitions of terms such as child maltreatment, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. It then discusses Child Protection Services (CPS)-investigated maltreatment, severity of cases of reported maltreatment, and implications for research, policy, and practice.
How Do We Know What Works? The Quality of Published Reviews of Evidence-Based Practices
Authors: Littell Julia H. 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter discusses the development and dissemination of information on the efficacy and effectiveness of one of the most prominent evidence-based practices for youth and families — multisystemic therapy (MST). MST has been widely implemented with families of juvenile delinquents and has been proposed as a solution to the perceived “failure” of family preservation services (FPS) in child welfare. The chapter presents a critique of the evidence supporting MST, articulates how evidence can be misused, and offers rigorous procedures for establishing the quality of studies.
New Permanency Strategies for Children in Foster Care
Authors: Testa Mark 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter examines the use of subsidized guardianship as a permanency alternative. It outlines an analytical framework for charting the broad cycle of public child welfare change in the United States. It traces the origins of the permanency planning movement, and considers the latest round of debate being generated by the expanded public reliance on kinfolk and foster families for the permanent care and guardianship of abused and neglected children. It outlines the theoretical foundations of the use of kinship care as a placement resource of choice, drawing on an emerging body of evidence to support this position.
Moving Restorative Justice Interventions into Domestic Violence Treatment
Authors: Friend Colleen 
Published: January 2009

AbstractThis chapter traces the traditional conceptualizations of domestic violence and the theories that are at the foundation of nationwide methods for addressing this issue. It examines some key literature about what is currently known about the effectiveness of batterers’ intervention programs (BIP). Principles of restorative justice practice as well as its critique are outlined. An innovative treatment approach — Constructing Circles of Peace (CCP) — is presented that draws on restorative justice principles. This experimental treatment model is currently in operation in Nogales, Arizona, and is being evaluated.
Decision Making in Child Welfare: Constraints and Potentials
Authors: Gambrill Eileen 
Published: January 2009

AbstractChild welfare practitioners make life-altering decisions on a daily basis. This chapter describes factors affecting decisions drawing on literature concerning decision making, problem solving and judgement in multiple areas. The importance of thinking critically about decisions, including related uncertainties, is highlighted. Topics discussed include structuring problems, identifying goals, the importance of situational awareness, cognitive biases that affect the quality of decisions and the use of simplifying strategies such as fast and fugal heuristics as well as analytical thinking. The importance of recognizing errors as inevitable and as providing learning opportunities is highlighted as is the limited information regarding these in child welfare. Barriers to sound decision making are discussed including self imposed barriers such as inflated views of one’s own competencies. The need for a systemic approach is emphasized including attention to professional education programs, as well as organizational factors, and the importance of using valid assessment frameworks and measures, and learning from our errors.
Self-Evaluation: Using Data to Guide Policy and Practice in Public Child Welfare Agencies
Authors: Webster Daniel , Usher Charles L. , Needell Barbara , Wildfire Judith 
Published: January 2009

Abstract
Self-evaluation provides a method for child welfare agencies to structure and implement programs and practice. Today, self-evaluation is not simply a reflective exercise but a practiced methodology for assessment, planning, and operation. This chapter discusses some of the challenges and successes encountered by university technical assistants, child welfare agency administrators, frontline workers, and community partners as they have worked together toward using data to improve their social work practices. It discusses the basic aspects of self-evaluation, including review of the organizational culture, attitude adjustment, intra-agency cooperation, and the recasting of personal opinions. It also discusses computer software that can assist in mapping and geographic study and some new possibilities for gathering and analyzing data. A team concept for agency organization and the consequent improvement of delivery of services by using neighborhood targeting and better assignment of case workers is presented.