fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 Volume 1 COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE THE PROFESSION OF SOCIAL WORK Volume Editor Barbara W. White Editors-in-Chief Karen M. Sowers Catherine N. Dulmus John Wiley & Sons, Inc. fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 Volume 1 COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE THE PROFESSION OF SOCIAL WORK Volume Editor Barbara W. White Editors-in-Chief Karen M. Sowers Catherine N. Dulmus John Wiley & Sons, Inc. fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 This book is printed on acid-free paper. ∞ Copyright C 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Comprehensive handbook of social work and social welfare / editors-in-chief, Karen M. Sowers and Catherine N. Dulmus. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-471-76997-2 (cloth) Volume 1: The Profession of Social Work ISBN 978-0-471-76272-0 (cloth) Volume 2: Human Behavior in the Social Environment ISBN 978-0-471-76280-5 (cloth) Volume 3: Social Work Practice ISBN 978-0-471-76998-9 (cloth) Volume 4: Social Policy and Policy Practice ISBN 978-0-471-75222-6 (cloth) 4-Volume set 1. Social service. 2. Social service—Practice. 3. Public welfare. 4. Social policy. I. Sowers, Karen M. (Karen Marlaine) II. Dulmus, Catherine N. HV40.C66 2008 361—dc22 2007026315 Printed in the United States of America. 10987654321 fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 To Tonja, Phaedra and John. This book may help you better understand my work for these many years. You are my inspiration and my wish for your future is embedded in the mission of social work. fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 Contents Handbook Preface xi Karen M. Sowers and Catherine N. Dulmus Acknowledgments xiii Preface xv Barbara W. White Contributors xvii Chapter 1 The History of Social Work and Social Welfare 1 Leslie Leighninger Chapter 2 Educating for Social Work 25 Julia M. Watkins and Jessica Holmes Chapter 3 The Scope of Social Work Practice 37 June G. Hopps and Tony B. Lowe Chapter 4 Professional Credentials and Professional Regulations: Social Work Professional Development 65 Donna DeAngelis and Mary Jo Monahan Chapter 5 Social Work Organizations 75 Gary R. Lowe and Terry L. Singer Chapter 6 Values and Ethics for Professional Social Work Practice 101 Kimberly Strom-Gottfried vii fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 viii Contents Chapter 7 The Strengths Perspective: Putting Possibility and Hope to Work in Our Practice 123 Dennis Saleebey Chapter 8 Child Welfare: Historical Trends, Professionalization, and Workforce Issues 143 Robin E. Perry and Alberta J. Ellett Chapter 9 Family Centered Practice 185 Barbara Thomlison Chapter 10 School Social Work 205 Cynthia Franklin, Beth Gerlach and Amy Chanmugam Chapter 11 Substance Abuse 227 Lori K. Holleran Steiker and Samuel A. MacMaster Chapter 12 The Mental Health Field of Practice 253 King Davis Chapter 13 Healing the Disjuncture: Social Work Disability Practice 267 Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson Chapter 14 Gerontology: A Field of Practice 283 Roberta R. Greene and Namkee Choi Chapter 15 Forensic Social Work: Current and Emerging Developments 315 Katherine van Wormer, Albert Roberts, David W. Springer, and Patricia Brownell Chapter 16 International Social Work 343 Doreen Elliott and Uma A. Segal Chapter 17 Immigrant and Indigenous Populations: Special Populations in Social Work 377 Jon Matsuoka and Hamilton I. McCubbin Chapter 18 Diversity 395 Iris B. Carlton-LaNey fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 Contents ix Chapter 19 Social and Economic Justice 419 Tricia B. Bent-Goodley Chapter 20 Putting Evidence-Based Practice into Practice 441 James G. Barber Chapter 21 Making Social Work Practice More Scientific 451 Allen Rubin Chapter 22 Issues in Social Work 467 Stanley L. Witkin and Roberta Rehner Iversen Author Index 497 Subject Index 513 fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 fm JWPR080-Sowers January 4, 2008 16:21 Char Count= 0 Handbook Preface The profession of social work spans more than 100 years. Over this period, the profession has changed in scope and depth. Despite the varied functions and methods of our profession, it has always been committed to social justice and the promotion of well-being for all. The profession has made great strides and is experiencing a resurgence of energy, commitment, and advancement as we face new global realities and challenges and embrace new and innovative technologies. In considering how the field of social work has evolved over the past century with the resulting explosion of new knowledge and technologies, it seemed imperative to create a resource (Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare) that provides a manageable format of information for researchers, clinicians, educators, and students. Our editors at John Wiley & Sons, the volume editors (Ira Colby, William Rowe, Lisa Rapp-Pagglici, Bruce Thyer, and Barbara W. White) and we as editors-in-chief, developed this four-volume handbook to serve as a resource to the profession. The Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare includes four volumes (The Profession of Social Work, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Social Work Practice, and Social Policy and Policy Practice). Each volume editor did an outstanding job of assembling the top social work scholars from around the globe to contribute chapters in their respective areas of expertise. We are enormously grateful to the chapter authors who have contributed their expert knowledge to this work. Each volume includes a Preface written by the respective volume editor(s) that provides a general overview to the volume. In developing the Comprehensive Handbook, we attempted to focus on evidence supporting our theoretical underpinnings and our practice interventions across multiple systems. Con- tent was designed to explore areas critically and to present the best available knowledge impacting the well-being of social systems, organizations, individuals, families, groups, and communities. The content is contemporaneous and is reflective of demographic, social, political, and economic current and emerging trends. Authors have paid close attention to contextual factors that shape the profession and will have a future impact on practice. Our profession strives to understand the dimensions of human difference that we value and engage to ensure excellence in practice. These dimensions of diversity are multiple and include factors such as disability, religion, race, culture, sexual orientation, social class, and gender. Each of the volumes addresses how difference characterizes and shapes our profession and our daily practice. New knowledge, technology, and ideas that may have a bearing on contemporary and future social work practice are infused throughout each of the volumes.