Delivering Home-Based Services : A Social Work Perspective

by Allen, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780231141475
• ISBN10: 0231141475
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. From monitoring the health of older populations to managing paroled offenders, preventing child abuse, and reunifying families, home-based services require models that ensure positive outcomes and address the ethical dilemmas that might arise in such sensitive contexts.The contributors to this volume are national experts in diverse fields of social work practice, policy, and research. Treating the home as an ecological setting that guides human development and family interaction, they present rationales for and overviews of evidence-based models across an array of populations and fields of practice. Part 1 provides historical background and contemporary applications for home-based services, highlighting ethical, administrative, and supervision issues unique to agencies that provide home-based services and summarizing the social policies that shape service delivery. Part 2 addresses home-based practice in such fields as child and adult mental health, school social work, and hospice care, detailing the particular population being treated, the policy and agency context, theories and empirical data, and practice guidelines. Part 3, the editors present a unifying framework and suggest future directions for home-based social work.

Author Biography

Susan F. Allen is assistant professor of social work at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and has over twenty years of clinical experience working with children, families, and adults in both home-based and center-based settings. Elizabeth M. Tracy is a Grace Longwell Coye Professor of Social Work at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, and chair of the Ph.D. program. Her books include Person-Environment Practice: The Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping and Social Work Practice with Children and Families.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction
Historical and Current Context	p. 3
Ethical Issues and Guidelines	p. 14
Administrative Supports and Practices	p. 34
Social Policy Context	p. 55
Home-Based Services in Social Work Fields of Practice
Early Childhood Programs	p. 81
School-Based Services	p. 111
Child Welfare	p. 134
Child Mental Health	p. 160
Criminal Justice	p. 189
Adult Mental Health	p. 215
Older Adult Services	p. 240
Hospice and End-of-Life Care	p. 263
Conclusion
Conclusions and Considerations for the Future	p. 287
Appendix: Organizations Associated with Home-Based Programs, Research, or Policies	p. 297
List of Contributors	p. 307
Index	p. 313
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