State of the Unions or Social Work Treatment

State of the Unions: How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence

Author: Philip M Din

From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers, actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for more than one third of the American workforce. At a mere 12 percent, union membership today is a shadow of what it once was. What happened to organized labor in America and what can be done to restore it to its role of the defender of middle-class values and economic well-being?

Award-winning investigative reporter Philip M. Dine takes us on a riveting journey through America's cities and back roads, its factories and union halls, to answer those questions. From the health care crisis to massive job flight overseas, from rampant home foreclosures to illegal immigration, he clearly shows how virtually every major economic, political, and social trend impacting our way of life is tied to the state of America's unions.

Combining a compelling narrative with expert analysis, Dine offers firsthand accounts of the union members striving to make their voices heard in a political landscape increasingly shaped by corporate interests, including how:

• The women of Delta Pride-a major player in the multi-billion dollar catfish industry-went up against generations of racial and economic prejudice
• Iowa's firefighters union flexed its collective muscle to score a major political victory in the 2004 caucus
• The American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO played a key role in bringing down the Iron Curtain
• The Teamsters enlisted community support to temporarily stop a move by Mr. Coffee to relocate to Mexico and saved nearly 400 manufacturing jobs in the Cleveland area

A reporter who has covered labor for two decades, Dine not onlydetails where labor has gone wrong, but he also offers sage advice on how it can adapt to a global economy to recover the ground it lost over the last quarter century.

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Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches

Author: Francis Joseph Turner

Written by leading practitioners and educators in the field, Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches, Fourth Edition is the standard text on theories of social work and a trusted reference book for social work practitioners. In this updated edition, Francis Turner introduces exciting new theoretical systems that have gained importance since the 1980s, including Aboriginal theory, Narrative, Hypnosis, Constructivism, and Empowerment theory. Twenty chapters from the previous edition have been completely revised and expanded, to reflect the influence of new ideas and clinical experience in social work practice. An exceptionally strong group of distinguished contributors to past editions and writers new to this volume together examine the full range of therapeutic approaches - including psychoanalysis, ego psychology, cognitive, crisis intervention, client-centered theory, feminist theory, meditation, transactional analysis, systems theory, task-centered social work, and neurolinguistics. Social Work Treatment makes the range of theories upon which current practice is built fully available, providing professionals with ready access to the theoretical diversity and richness that is the mark of contemporary social work practice. It enables social work students at all levels - bachelor, masters and doctoral - to learn and integrate ongoing theoretical developments in the field, which ultimately ensures a client's optimum service.

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<:st> The third edition (1986) is cited in "BCL3". Introduces theoretical systems<-->Aboriginal theory, narrative, hypnosis, constructivism, and empowerment theory<-->and examines the full range of therapeutic approaches, including psychoanalysis, ego psychology, cognitive, crisis intervention, client-centered theory, feminist theory and meditation. The style and content of the chapters are practice-oriented, concentrate on the use of systems in a practical context, and, together with detailed descriptions of each theoretical system, explore their real-world implementation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword to the First Edition
	Preface
	About the Contributors
1	Theory and Social Work Treatment	1
2	Aboriginal Theory: A Cree Medicine Wheel Guide for Healing First Nations	18
3	Behavior Theory and Social Work Treatment	39
4	Client-Centered Theory: A Person-Centered Approach	69
5	Cognitive Theory and Social Work Treatment	94
6	Communication Theory and Social Work Treatment	116
7	Constructivism and Social Work Treatment	146
8	Crisis Theory and Social Work Practice	168
9	Ego Psychology Theory	191
10	The Empowerment Approach to Social Work Practice	218
11	Existential Social Work	250
12	Feminist Theory and Social Work Practice	282
13	Functional Theory and Social Work Practice	319
14	Gestalt Theory and Social Work Treatment	341
15	The Use of Hypnosis in Social Work Practice	362
16	Life Model Theory and Social Work Treatment	389
17	A Materialist Framework for Social Work Theory and Practice	409
18	Meditation and Social Work Treatment	434
19	Narrative Theory and Social Work Treatment	461
20	Neurolinguistic Programming Theory and Social Work Treatment	480
21	Problem-Solving Theory and Social Work Treatment	503
22	Psychoanalytic Theory and Social Work Treatment	523
23	Psychosocial Theory and Social Work Treatment	555
24	Role Theory and Social Work Treatment	581
25	Systems Theory and Social Work Treatment	601
26	Task-Centered Social Work	617
27	Transactional Analysis Theory and Social Work Treatment	641
28	Transpersonal Social Work	663
29	An Interlocking Perspective for Treatment	699
	Index	712