Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice: Confronting Complexity

These fifteen cases take place in child welfare, mental health, hospital, hospice, domestic violence, refugee resettlement, veterans' administration, and school settings and reflect individual, family, group, and supervised social work practice. They confront common ethical and treatment issues and raise issues regarding practice interventions, programs, policies, and laws. Cases represent open-ended situations, encouraging students to apply knowledge from across the social work curriculum to develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

An instructor's manual with teaching notes is available by emailing: coursematerials@columbiauniversitypress.com.

Terry Wolfer is professor of social work at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Decision Cases for Generalist Social Work Practice (Cengage, 2005), Death, Dying, and Bereavement in Social Work Practice (CUP, 2008), and Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice (CUP, 2013).