Books written by LCSW

Management and Leadership in Social Work: A Competency-Based Approach

Once a course of action has been determined to deal with the cutbacks, ... Who will provide the service(s) that is being cut and how will it impact other ...
The Behavioral Health Specialist in Primary Care: Skills for Integrated Practice

Paulson, S., Davidson, R., Jha, A., & Kabat-Zinn, J. (2013). Becoming conscious: The science of mindfulness. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1303, 87–104. Remely, M., Lovrecic, L., de la Garza, A. L., Migliore, L., Peterlin, ...
Social Work and Family Violence, Second Edition: Theories, Assessment, and Intervention

Fleury-Steiner, R. E., Bybee, D., Sullivan, C.M., Belknap, J., & Melton, H. C. (2006). Contextual factors impacting battered women's intentions to reuse the criminal legal system. Journal of Community Psychology, 34(3), 327–342.
Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice: A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, Second Edition

One study ( Fonagy , Steele , & Steele , 1991 ) has shown that the attachment pattern of a child at 12 months can be predicted from the assessment of the mother's attachment pattern prior to the child's birth .
Psychology of Aging 101

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Fleischman, D. A., Wilson, R. S., Gabrieli, J. D. E., Bienias, J. L., & Bennett, D. A. (2004). A longitudinal study of implicit and explicit memory in old persons. Psychology and Aging, 19, 617–625.
Direct Practice Skills for Evidence-Based Social Work: A Strengths-Based Text and Workbook

experience, while also maintaining awareness of what the self is experiencing (Gerdes & Segal, 2011). Emotion regulation refers to the ability to manage one's emotional responses. For example, when a client describes discriminatory ...
The Social Work Field Placement: A Competency-Based Approach

Finally, egalitarian theoretical frameworks argue that everyone should be guaranteed the same rights, opportunities, and access to goods and resources (Rawls, Field Reflection Questions In your current field placement, ...
Strengthening the DSM: Incorporating Intersectionality, Resilience, and Cultural Competence

... in the process of diagnosing and treating both mental disorders and related relationship problems ( Bandura, 1997 ; Goleman, 2005 ; Gottman et al., 2002 ; Gottman et al., 2006 ; Peterson, 2006 ; Schwartz & Sweezy, 2020 ; Seligman, ...
Intimate Partner and Family Abuse: A Casebook of Gender Inclusive Therapy

Batterers with antisocial tendencies, for example—what Jacobsen and Gottman (1998) called cobras (in contrast to the equally dangerous pit bulls)—do not experience tension release upon assaulting their partner or contrition.
Family Interventions in Domestic Violence: A Handbook of Gender-Inclusive Theory and Treatment

In this exciting new book John Hamel, author of the ground-breaking Gender-Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse, and Tonia Nicholls go beyond the traditional intervention theories of domestic violence practiced today.
Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan, Second Edition: A Biopsychosocial Perspective

American Journal of Public Health, 104(5),904–910. doi:10.2105/ AJPH.2013.301707 Hahn-Holbrook, J., Holbrook, C., & Haselton, M. G. (2012). Parental precaution: Neurobiological means and adaptive ends.
Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective

As prolactin is secreted along with oxytocin at the time of birth, the reward system of the brain is stimulated, fear is buffered, and women have increased affiliative motivations (Hahn-Holbrook et al., 2012), meaning they generally ...
Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan: A Biopsychosocial Perspective

Kroll notes that there is “the lack of a body” (2002, p.113) and yet the child has experienced a loss (certainly the loss of the parent who leaves the home and the loss of the former family constellation). The need to understand the ...
Treating Young Veterans: Promoting Resilience Through Practice and Advocacy

This book represents a thoughtful, sensitive, and sensible approach to working with military personnel and veterans who have been deployed to wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Devastating Losses: How Parents Cope With the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs

In M. S. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, H. Schut, & W. Stroebe (Eds.), Handbook of bereavement research and practice: Advances in theory and intervention (pp. 375–396). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Murphy, S.A., Johnson ...
Defenders of the Heart

Linn, D. Complete Relaxation. Audio CD. Carlsbad: Hay House, 2006. — Mitchell, S.A., and Black, M. J. Freud and Beyond. New York: Basic Books, 1995. — Murphy, T., and Oberlin, L. H. Overcoming PassiveAggression: How to Stop Hidden Anger ...
Partner Stalking: How Women Respond, Cope, and Survive

Experts working on this project developed a model state stalking law defining a person who is guilty of stalking as ... who regularly resides in the household or who within the prior six months regularly resided in the household (p.
Human Behavior and the Social Environment: Integrating Theory and Evidence-Based Practice

This comprehensive text offers a solid foundation for asssessment of human behavior in micro, mezzo, and macro settings.
Solution-Focused Case Management

Karen is a 21-year-old, African American, single mother of a 5- and a 7-year-old living in public housing. She was referred because a neighbor had contacted child protective services, concerned that Karen had left the children ...
Strengthening the DSM: Incorporating Resilience and Cultural Competence

Goodman, L. A., Litwin, A., Bohlig, A., Weintraub, S., Green, A., Walker, J.,... Ryan, N. (2007). Applying feminist theory to community practice: A multilevel empowerment intervention for low-income women and depression.