Psychodynamic Social Work
Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780231126366
Subjects: Social Work; Social Science; Sociology; Mental Illness; Social Science / Social Work; Psychiatric social work; Psychoanalysis
First sentence: PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY IS NOT a unified body of knowledge; rather, it is composed of multiple theories, models, and schemata pertaining to development, psychopathology, and clinical method and technique.
Description: "A comprehensive guide to psychodynamics clinical practice within a contemporary social work treatment context, this book incorporates a number of different theoretical models in tandem with more than thirty-five diverse case illustrations. Case studies are derived from an assortment of venues, including inpatient and outpatient mental health, family service, residential treatment, corrections, and private practice."--BOOK JACKET.