Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice or The Federal Reserve System

Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice

Author: Bradford W Sheafor

This one-of-a-kind resource for students and practitioners is designed to emphasize the different techniques needed for successful practice.

Carefully updated to provide easy access to the most current information on social work techniques and guidelines and organized to support a generalist practice perspective, Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice, 7/e illustrates multiple ways in which both direct and indirect intervention activities are a part of the social worker's repertoire. Touching upon everything from cultural competence to macro practice, the content of this text is so widely applicable it is an invaluable aid in making the transition to a professional career in social work. It is ideal for use in advanced practice, capstone, and field work courses.

Highlights of the New Edition

• Following the lessons of 9/11, new content is included to prepare social workers to cope with client or community emergency.
• New information on family group conferencing, a new approach based on the principles of restorative justice about which social workers should be knowledgeable.
• New guidelines for using mentoring relationships, in which senior practitioners without direct administrative responsibilities support and nurture developing social workers.
• New guidelines for assessing small group functioning as a means of strengthening subsequent intervention activities with groups.
• Chapter 14 now includes a straightforward description of techniques for conducting empirical direct practice evaluation with current illustrations based on students’ applications of the most commonly usedevaluation tools.
• New techniques include guidelines for assessing small group functioning, family group conferencing, and building mentoring relationships, as well as addressing client concerns related to spirituality and religion and serving the client or community experiencing an emergency or disaster.

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New edition of a text about what social workers actually do when helping their clients solve problems and/or enhance functioning. Emphasizing techniques and specific guidelines rather than practice theories and conceptual frameworks, 15 chapters discuss social work and the social worker, the building blocks of social work practice, common techniques, and techniques and guidelines for phases of the planned change process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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The Federal Reserve System: A History

Author: Donald R Wells

The Federal Reserve banking system was created, in 1913, to bring coherence to banking practices and prevent crises like the financial panic of 1907. The Federal Reserve has since played a crucial role in American financial policy and practice. It is largely and entity unto itself, operating independently, rarely subject to the machinations of Congress of the presidency.

This history begins with an overview of American banking practices before 1914. The events leading to the Reserve's creation and its early tribulations are then documented. Subsequent chapters track the Federal Reserve's role during times of financial and military crisis, its relationship to each presidential administration, and its changes in leadership over the years. The Alan Greenspan era is covered in detail, as are major changes in the Fed's operating procedures since the 1980s. An appendix lists all members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, from its formation until 2003.

Table of Contents:

1	U.S. banking before the Federal Reserve	7
2	The Aldrich-Vreeland act prevents a panic in 1914	21
3	Original uncertainty regarding exercise of Fed authority	25
4	The Federal Reserve's role in World War I	29
5	The discovery of a new tool for the Federal Reserve	35
6	The Fed in the 1920s	41
7	The Fed in the 1929-1933 contraction	47
8	Policy changes in the Roosevelt administration	61
9	The Fed's role in World War II	77
10	The Fed between World War II and the Korean War	85
11	The Korean War and the accord with the treasury	91
12	"Bills only" as an act of independence	97
13	Operation Twist and President Kennedy's tax cut	107
14	Chairman Martin's battle with President Johnson over inflation	111
15	Nixon replaces Martin with burns and inflicts price controls on the economy	119
16	Supply shocks in the 1970s make unemployment and inflation worse	125
17	Carter replaces Burns with Miller and inflation worsens	131
18	The Volcker era begins and the Fed gets control over all banks	137
19	Volcker's Fed slows inflation at a cost	145
20	Volcker is reappointed but there are changes on the board	153
21	The Greenspan era begins	161
22	The Fed's response to the thrift crisis	167
23	Economics dominate the board under Greenspan	173
24	Changes in the Fed's operating procedure after the 1980s	185
App. A	Membership of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system, 1913-2003	199
App. B	Persons serving as chairman of the board of governors	202

Russia and Its Crisis or Public Policy

Russia and Its Crisis (The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series)

Author: Paul Miliukov

Paul Miliukov's Russia and Its Crisis was one of the most extraordinary and prescient books ever to have emerged from pre-revolutionary Russia. Based upon a series of lectures presented at the University of Chicago and Boston's Lowell Institute in 1903 and 1904, Russia and Its Crisis laid out the case for the development of a politically liberal Russia at precisely the moment that the old autocratic order was beginning to crumble.

Paul Miliukov (1859-1943) graduated from both Moscow and St. Petersburg universities and began his professional life as a scholar. His political development, not dissimilar to that of many other Russian intellectuals of the time, led him to fight against all the terrors of Tsarist repression, then cherish the potential in Russia for European-style liberal democracy, and then fight, during the height of the October Revolution, to preserve the Tsar's power in the face of Lenin and the Bolshevik marauders. Indeed, one lasting picture in To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson's masterful study of the history of Soviet communism, has Miliukov, as the Provisional Government's nattily dressed, bespectacled Minister of Foreign Affairs, frantically cabling his consuls in 1917 to prevent Lenin's train from entering into Russia.

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Public Policy: The Essential Readings

Author: Matthew A Cahn

This collection of 46 key classic and contemporary readings explores the environment within which public policy is made and the actual policy-making process. KEY TOPICS: This book includes readings that are among the most frequently cited or that highlight the link between theory and practice particularly well. It groups readings into four major sections which parallel both the majority of policy texts and the way many courses are designed: the nature of public policy — including theories and models of public policy making, the making of policy — the sequential stages that policies pass through, the players — both institutional and non-institutional, policy making as a game — the rules, strategies, and culture of the policy game. Each section begins with an overview essay.