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 |