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Handbook of Community-Based Clinical Practice
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Handbook of Community-Based Clinical Practice

Anita Lightburn and Phebe Sessions

Abstract

This volume builds the bridge between books on community practice and on clinical practice, including 33 chapters written by social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists, for clinicians making the transition to community-based work. This is the first handbook to address this gap and provide guidance for today's community practitioners. Its overarching goal is to support the ongoing development of community-based mental health care, drawing on practical examples. This collection outlines the history and philosophy of community practice, and also illustrates the state of the art, with exampl ... More

Keywords: community-based clinical practice, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, clinicians, community practitioners, mental health care, school-based practice, mental health services, community practice

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9780195159226
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159226.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Anita Lightburn, Editor
Fordham University

Phebe Sessions, Editor
Smith College

Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

Contributors

I Introduction and Model of Practice

1 What Is Community-Based Clinical Practice?

2 Community-Based Clinical Practice

II Paradigm Shift and Essentials in Community Practice

3 In the Care of Strangers

4 A Paradigm Shift in Developmental Perspectives?

5 Ideas of Self and Community

6 A Communal Perspective for the Relational Therapies

7 Toward Critical Social Practices

8 Culturally Competent Community-Based Clinical Practice

9 Similarity and Difference in Cross-Cultural Practice

10 The Road to Becoming an Antiracism Organization

11 Family and Network Therapy Training for a System of Care

12 Evaluating Community-Based Clinical Practice

III The Leadership Journey in Community-Based Clinical Practice: Practice, Theory, and Policy

13 The Network Context of Network Therapy

14 Unitas: Therapy for Youth in a Street Society

15 Pathways to Reforming Children’s Mental Health Service Systems

16 The Development of a Community-Based System of Care

IV Practice Examples

A Early Intervention and Family Support

17 Family of Friends

18 Developing a Community-Based Model for Integrated Family Center Practice

19 Children and HIV

B School-Based Practice

20 Partners for Success

21 School-Based Clinical Practice and School Reform

22 Social Work and the “Community of Concern” in an Urban American Public Elementary School

23 School-Based Psychoeducational Groups on Trauma Designed to Decrease Reenactment

C Community-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Families

24 Working With High-Risk Children and Families in Their Own Homes

25 The Ecology of Intensive Community-Based Intervention

26 Creating a Community of Care for Seriously Emotionally Distressed Youth

27 Police–Mental Health Collaboration on Behalf of Children Exposed to Violence

28 It Takes a Community to Help an Adolescent

29 The Neighborhood Place

D Community Mental Health for Adults

30 Recovery Guides

31 Open Dialogue Integrates Individual and Systemic Approaches in Serious Psychiatric Crises

32 Gjakova

33 Critical Incident Debriefings and Community-Based Clinical Care

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Index