Feminist Social Work Practice in Clinical Settings

by Mary Bricker-Jenkins; Nancy R. Hooyman; Naomi Gottlieb

• ISBN13: 9780803936263
• ISBN10: 0803936265
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-06-28
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

Written by practitioners for practitioners, this volume examines feminist practice in conventional settings, where social workers who are feminist struggle to integrate their commitments and analyses into their day-to-day work. Contributors explore issues of concern to feminist social workers, including family violence, social security and child abuse. They include case studies from a variety of clinical settings, such as health centres, hospitals and community health and counselling centres.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - Mary Bricker-Jenkins

Introduction

Beginning Together

PART TWO: FEMINIST PRACTICE IN CLINICAL SETTINGS: CASE STUDIES

A

Feminist Practice in Hospital Settings - Lisa Tieszen Gary

Feminist Practice and Family Violence - Eloise Rathbone-McCuan, Susan Tebb and Terry Harbert

A Program Application of Feminist Social Work with Older Women Caregivers

B

Feminist Practice in Mental Health Settings - Nancie Palmer

Feminist Practice with Survivors of Sexual Trauma and Incest - Armando Smith

Feminist Practice with Teenage Parents - Clevonne Turner

Feminist Practice with Women of Color

A Developmental Perspective

C

Feminist Practice in a Day Care Setting - Bernice Liddie

Relearning Feminism on the Job

D

Feminist Practice in Rural Communities - Joanne Mermelstein

Feminist Practice in Rural Social Work

PART THREE: CORE CONCEPTS

A

Private Troubles and Public Issues - Marilyn Wedenoja

Mothers are not to Blame

Confronting Cultural Bias in the Area of Serious Mental Illness

B

Empowerment - Lorraine Gutierrez

Empowering Women of Color

A Feminist Model

C

Common Ground - Wawa Baczynskj

Refugees as Feminists

PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ISSUES - Diane Kravetz and Linda E Jones

Supporting Practice in Feminist Service Agencies - Nancy R Hooyman

Supporting Practice in Large-Scale Bureaucracies

PART FIVE: CONCLUSION