Handbook of Social Work Direct Practice

The Handbook of Social Work Direct Practice provides an extraordinarily extensive coverage of all major topics relevant to Clinical Social Work. The Contributors to this volume, under the leadership of Paula Allen-Meares and Charles Garvin, guide the reader through discussions about the contexts of social work practice, multicultural and diversity issues, research, as well as assessment and measurement All in all, this is the perfect primary text for administration courses in MSW programs, BSW programs, and doctoral programs. Practitioners and professionals in the field will find here all the useful elements a key reference work can provide.

Charles Garvin holds his master′s and doctoral degrees from the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago. He was a practitioner in social work and group work for a dozen years after his master′s degree before he studied for his PhD. He graduated from a program of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis that trained child therapists. He has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Social work 1965-2002 and is now Professor Emeritus of Social Work, He is the author or co-author of many books such as Contemporary Group Work, Interpersonal Practice in Social Work, Social Work in Contemporary Society, Group Work Research, and Social Work and Social Justice. He was the first chair of the now called International Association of Social Work with Groups after it became a membership organization. He is a past chair of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work. He has written over 50 articles and book chapters on social work, research, and group work, He is the co-editor of two editions of the Handbook of Social Work with Groups.