Table of Contents

1. Attachment Theory and Social Work Treatment
Timothy Page

2. Brain Plasticity: An Emerging Therapeutic Technique for Social Work
Dan Andreae

3. Chaos Theory and Social Work Treatment
Sandra Loucks Campbell

4. Client-Centered Theory and the Person-Centered Approach: Values-Based Evidence-Supported
William S. Rowe

5. Cognitive Behavior Theory and Social Work Treatment
Ray J. Thomlison and Barbara Thomlison

6. Cognitive Theory and Social Work Treatment
Pranab Chatterjee and Suzanne Brown

7. Constructivism: A Conceptual Framework for Social Work Treatment
Donald E. Carpenter and Keith Brownlee

8. Crisis Theory and Social Work Practice
Diane Mirabito

9. Ecopsychology: Adding "Eco" to the Biopsychosocialspiritual perpespctive
David Derezotes

10. Empowerment Approach to Social Work Treatment
Judith A.B. Lee and Dr. Rhonda E. Hudson

11. Existential Social Work
Donald Krill

12. Feminist Theory and Social Work Practice
Eveline Milliken

13. The Four Forces: An Inclusive Model
Au-Deane Shepherd Cowley

14. Functional Theory and Social Work Practice
Katherine M. Dunlap

15. General Systems Theory: Evolution and Application
Nancy Riedel Bowers and Anna Bowers

16. Gestalt Theory and Social Work Treatment
Elaine P. Congress

17. Hope Theory and Social Work Treatment
Alexander T. Polgar

18. Hypnosis and Clinical Social Work Practice
Elayne Tanner

19. Life Model of Social Work Practice: An overview
Alex Gitterman

20. Meditation and Social Work Practice
Thomas Keefe

21. Mindfulness and Social Work
Kirstin Bindseil and Kate Kitchen

22. Narrative Theory and Social Work Treatment
Patricia Kelley and Mark Smith

23. Neurolinguistic Programming Theory and Social Work Treatment
Brent Angell

24. Oppression Theory and Social Work Treatment
Susan P. Robbins

25 Problem-Solving and Social Work
Michael L. Shier

26. Psychoanalytic System of Ideas
Elizabeth Ann Danto

27. The Psychosocial Framework of Social Work Practice
Emilia E. Martinez-Brawley and Paz M B Zorita

28. Relational Social Work: A Contemporary Psychosocial Perspective on Practice
Carol Tosone and Caroline Rosenthal Gelman

29. Relational Theory and Social Work Treatment
Dennis Miehls

30. Resilience Theory
Robbie Gilligan

31. Role Theory and Concepts Applied to Personal and Social Change in Social Work Treatment
Dennis Kimberley and Louise Osmond

32. Social Learning Theory and Social Work Treatment
Bruce A. Thyer

33. Social Networks and Social Work Practice
Elizabeth M. Tracy and Suzanne Brown

34. Social Work Practice in the Time of Neuroscience
Robert J. MacFadden

35. Socially Costructing Social Work
Dan Wulff

36. Solution-Focused Theory
Mo Yee Lee

37. Task-Centered Social Work
Anne E. Fortune and William J. Reid

38. Trauma Informed Social Work Treatment and Complex Trauma
Dennis Kimberley and Ruth Parsons

39. Emerging Theories
Emilia E. Martinez-Brawley

Epilogue: SOCIAL WORK TREATMENT VI:SOME FINAL COMMENTS
Index

About the Author

Francis J. Turner, DSW, MSW, LDD, is Professor Emeritus, School of Social work, Wilfrid Laurier University and Senior Scholar, York University.