Explores the questions of what the social worker needs to know and to be able to do to provide resourceful programmatic and individualized clinical services req

Role in forming balanced assessments.

Every day, social workers deal with individuals, families, and groups struggling with problems that are often chronic, persistent, acute, and/or unexpected. Whe

When community and family support systems are weak or unavailable, and when internal resources fail, populations that struggle with chronic, persistent, acute,

Originally published in 1980, The Life Model of Social Work Practice was the first textbook to introduce the ecological perspective into social work practice. T