Handbook of Community-Based Clinical Practice

by Anita Lightburn (Editor), Phebe Sessions (Editor)

Overview

This sweeping volume builds the much-needed bridge between books on community practice and on clinical practice, including 33 chapters written by expert social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists specifically for clinicians making the transition to community-based work. This is the first handbook to specifically address this gap and provide meaningful guidance for today's community practitioners. Its overarching goal is to support the ongoing development of community-based mental health care, drawing on a wealth of practical examples. This groundbreaking collection not only outlines the history and philosophy of community practice but richly illustrates the state of the art with examples from early intervention and development programs, school-based practice, and community mental health services for children, families, and adults. Community-based clinicians of every stripe will find this handbook indispensable for understanding, improving, and evaluating their practice while enriching the health and well-being of their clients and their communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190289362
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Fordham University

Smith College

Table of Contents

I. Introduction and Model of Practice1. What Is Community-Based Clinical Practice?: Traditions and Transformations, Phebe Sessions and Anita Lightburn2. Community-Based Clinical Practice: Recreating the Culture of Care, Anita Lightburn and Phebe SessionsII. Paradigm Shift and System Essentials3. In the Care of Strangers, Ann Weick4. A Paradigm Shift in Developmental Perspectives?: The Self in Context, Dennis Saleebey5. Ideas of Self and Community: Expanding Possibilities for Practice, Carol R. Swenson6. A Communal Perspective for Relational Therapies, Lynn Hoffman7. Toward Critical Social Practices: Hermeneutics, Poetics, and Micropolitics in Community Mental Health, Marcelo Pakman8. Culturally Competent Community-Based Practice: A Critical Review, Maria D. Corwin9. Similarity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Practice: An Anthropological Perspective, Catherine Nye10. The Road to Becoming an Anti-Racism Organization, Susan E. Donner and Joshua Miller11. Family and Network Training for A System Of Care: "A Pedagogy Of Hope," Mary E. Olson12. Evaluating Community-Based Clinical Practice, Martha Morrison Dore and Anita LightburnIII. The Leadership Journey in Community-Based Clinical Practice: Practice, Theory and Policy13. The Network Context of Network Therapy: A Story from the European Nordic North, Tom Andersen14. Unitas: Therapy for Youth in a Street Society, Edward P. Eismann15. Pathways to Reforming Children's Mental Health Service Systems: Public and Personal, Judith C. Meyers16. The Development of a Community-Based System of Care, Susan C. Ayers and D. Russell LymanIV. Practice ExamplesbA. Early Intervention and Family Support/b17. Family of Friends: Creating a Supportive Day Care Community to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect, Martha Morrison Dore, Nancy Feldman, Amy Winnick Gelles18. Developing a Community-Based Model for Integrated Family Center Practice, Chris Warren-Adamson and Anita Lightburn19. Children and HIV: A Model of Home-Based Mental Health Treatment, Sandra Gossart-Walker and Robert A. MurphybB. School-Based Practice/b20. Partners for Success: Ten Years of Collaboration Between a School for Social Work and an Urban Public School System, Phebe Sessions and Verba Fanolis21. School-Based Clinical Practice and School Reform: Application of Clinical Social Work to the School Development Program, Joanne Corbin22. Social Work and the "Community of Concern" in an Urban American Public Elementary School: An Interim Report, E. Martin Schotz, Ruth Grossman Dean, and Jane Crosby23. School-Based Psychoeducational Groups on Trauma Designed to Decrease Reenactment, Ann Marie Glodich, Jon G. Allen, Jim Fultz, George Thompson, Cindy Arnold-Whitney, Cheri Varvil, and Chris MoodybC. Community-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Families/b24. Working With High-Risk Children and Families in Their Own Homes: An Integrative Approach to the Treatment of Vulnerable Children, Jean Adnopoz25. The Ecology of Intensive Community-Based Intervention, D. Russell Lyman, and Borja Alvarez de Toledo26. Creating a Community of Care for Seriously Emotionally Distressed Youth: The Mott Haven Initiative, a System of Care Experience, Katherine Gordy Levine27. Police-Mental Health Collaboration on Behalf of Children Exposed to Violence: The Child Development-Community Policing Program Model, Stephen Marans and Miriam Berkman28. It Takes a Community to Help an Adolescent: Community-Based Clinical Services for Immigrant Adolescents, Roni Berger29. The Neighborhood Place: An Alternative Mental Health Program, Paula Armbruster, Laura Ewing, Virginia DeVarennes, Abigail Prestin, Lisa Lochner, Ursula Chock, and Saglar BougdaevabB. Community Mental Health for Adults/b30. Recovery Guides: An Emerging Model of Community-Based Care for Adults With Psychiatric Disabilities, Larry Davidson, Janis Tondora, Martha Staeheli, Maria O'Connell, Jennifer Frey, Matthew J. Chinman31. Open Dialogue Integrates Individual and Systemic Approaches in Serious Psychiatric Crises, Jaakko Seikkula32. Gjakova: The First Community Mental Health Center in Kosovo, Ellen Pulleyblank-Coffey, James Griffith, and Jusuf Ulaj33. Critical Incident Debriefings and Community-Based Clinical Care, Joshua Miller

Editorial Reviews

"This is the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference on community-based mental health and family practices published in this decade. The 33 chapters by esteemed scholar-practitioners leave no stone unturned in their original and up-to-date chapters. The first five overview and foundation chapters alone make this book a must-read volume. The breadth and depth of knowledge conveyed by this international author team, state-of-the-art information, and practice guidelines make this book an authoritative, original, informative, and practical book for all human service clinicians and administrators." —Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D. Professor of Social Work and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, and Editor-in-Chief, Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

"Lightburn and Sessions have gathered for us a rich, extensive, and even revolutionary compendium of materials on community-based practice. Including theoretical discussions by some of the most creative thinkers in mental health and fascinating and highly instructive examples of this work in practice, this volume is a fulfillment of Bertha Reynolds's wish that helping be located on the highways of life where ordinary traffic passes by." —Ann Hartman, DSW, Professor and Dean Emerita, Smith College School for Social Work

"This handbook is timely, comprehensive, and informative. It is indeed a valuable resource to support the ongoing development of community-based mental health care." —Joseph L. Woolston, M.D., Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine Child Study Center

"Just when it looked like there was nothing to do for the community mental health movement except put flowers on the grave, Lightburn and Sessions produce a book that breathes new life back into community-based practice. There is something here for anyone who has a stake in the mental health of the nation, from historians, researchers, and academicians to clinicians, administrators, and in-the-trenches community workers. Kudos to the editors of this volume for offering a new generation of social service and mental health professionals an enlightening perspective on their past, a sobering assessment of the present, and a vision of hope for the future." —Sandra L. Bloom, M.D., psychiatrist and author of Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies and Bearing Witness: Violence

"Community-based clinical practice is increasingly regarded as THE approach to social work in such settings as schools, family services, and mental health. In this handbook, Anita Lightburn and Phebe Sessions have brought together a range of comprehensive and inspiring contributions from leading scholars. Practitioners, administrators, and students will appreciate it as a remarkable reference text!" —Anthony N. Maluccio, DSW, Professor of Social Work, Boston College

"Consistent with a public health model and recommendations from the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health 2003, Lightburn and Sessions have edited and contributed to a handbook designed to promote transformation of the delivery of public mental health services. The book emphasizes programs designed for prevention and early intervention.[it] identifies the issues associated with the delivery of public mental health services and offers some innovative alternatives to existing approaches. With a diminishing workforce, community-based mental health practice is at a crossroad. This book breathes life and hope back into community based mental health practice. "—Elizabeth Pilonis, rief Treatments and Crisis Intervention

"The book is comprehensive and well-organized... Ground-breaking in the field of community-based clinical practice. It extends, critiques, and contributes to the social work knowledge base in a way that will be appreciated by a wide range of practitioners."—Clinical Social Work Journal

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