Zastrow covers topics such as social work values; confidentiality; principles of interviewing; contemporary theories of counseling; sexual therapy; assessment; evaluation; general systems theory; multicultural social work; working within a bureaucratic system; burnout; and the frustrations and satisfactions of being a social worker.
This edition of the text bridges the gap between undergraduate and graduate course levels by offering both user-friendly cases and lively writing and by including more advanced techniques -- set off in separate section -- for optional use or for la