Diagnosis in Social Work: New Imperatives

by Turner; Francis J

• ISBN13: 9780789008718
• ISBN10: 0789008718
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Assessment and diagnostic skills are essential professional tools for the social worker, but all too often they are neglected or downplayed. Diagnosis in Social Work calls for the reinstatement of social diagnosis to its former place as an essential concept in social work and demonstrates the detrimental impact of the loss of diagnostic skills on the quality of social work intervention today. Combining meticulous history with insightful analysis, Diagnosis in Social Work includes everything social work practitioners, educators, and students need to know about the process and meaning of this sorely neglected part of the field! Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
The History of Diagnosis in Social Work	7	(20)
What Led Us Astray?	27	(8)
Diagnosis: What It Is Not	35	(16)
Diagnosis: What It Is	51	(10)
Our Ethical Responsibility to Diagnose	61	(6)
Our Ethical Responsibility to Label	67	(6)
A Spectrum of Critical Judgments	73	(12)
Diagnosis As a Process and a Record	85	(10)
Diagnosis and Gut Reaction	95	(6)
Diagnosis and Assessment	101	(10)
Diagnosis and Theory	111	(6)
Diagnosis and the Computer	117	(6)
The Risks of Diagnosing	123	(6)
Diagnosis and Research: A Contemporary Challenge	129	(6)
Enhancing Diagnostic Skills	135	(4)
Final Comments	139	(6)
Appendix: Some Examples of Social Work diagnoses	145	(6)
Bibliography	151	(20)
Index	171