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      Social Treatment: An Approach to Interpersonal Helping

      James K. Whittaker

      The book has two principal purposes: To provide an introduction to interpersonal helping in the context of social work practice, and to develop a conceptual framework for interpersonal helping that…

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      Social Treatment: Approach to Interpersonal Helping

      James K. Whittaker

      Provides an introduction to interpersonal helping in the context of social work practice, and develops a conceptual framework for interpersonal helping - called social treatment. This book offers a systematic…

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      Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare

      Scott Briar,James Whittaker

      Offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. This title details a systematic format for both problem intervention and evaluation which produces a more empirically based…

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      Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare

      Offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. This title details a systematic format for both problem intervention and evaluation which produces a more empirically based…

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      The Other 23 Hours: Child Care Work with Emotionally Disturbed Children in a Therapeutic Milieu

      Albert E. Trieschman,James K. Whittaker,Larry K. Brendtro

      Among other revolutionary developments of today’s world is tie so-called knowledge explosion

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      The Other 23 Hours: Child Care Work with Emotionally Disturbed Children in a Therapeutic Milieu

      Albert E. Trieschman,James Whittaker,Larry K. Brendtro

      The reader will find that what the authors describe in The Other 23 Hours as the everyday requirement diet, as far as child handling is concerned for their disturbed children…

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      Revitalizing Residential Care for Children and Youth

      James K. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes, Jorge Carlos Fernandez del Valle, Sigrid James

      This volume addresses the question of how societies with developed welfare and social service systems are assessing current needs and future directions in their residential child and youth care sectors…

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      Reaching High-Risk Families: Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services - Modern Applications of Social Work

      James K. Whittaker,Jill Kinney,Elizabeth M. Tracy,Charlotte Booth

      Focusing on a program ( Homebuilders ) that has attracted national attention, this book develops implications for family-centered curricula in such areas as social policy, direct practice, program design/management, practice…

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      The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research

      Peter J. Pecora,James K. Whittaker,Richard P. Barth,Sharon Borja,William Vesneski

      Examines major policy practice and research issues that jointly shape child welfare practice. This book emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child…

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      The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research

      Peter J. Pecora,James K. Whittaker,Richard P. Barth,Sharon Borja,William Vesneski

      Examines major policy practice and research issues that jointly shape child welfare practice. This book emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child…

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      How Does Foster Care Work?: International Evidence on Outcomes

      How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in…

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      Person-Environment Practice: Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping

      Susan P. Kemp,etc.,James K. Whittaker (Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, USA),Elizabeth M. Tracy (Associate Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Science, Case Reserve University, USA)

      Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention

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