New Approaches to Family Practice

To what extent do economic stresses - such as dual-earner parents unemployment//underemployment and poverty in the family - affect a social worker''s assessment of the families in their care? Families Work and Poverty applies a wealth of current research driven by the family systems theoretical framework to social work practice with families in three specific areas: employed-work and family- work; unemployment; and poverty. The book presents chapters on the theory and research in these three target areas each followed by a chapter on applications and tools for direct practice in that area. Each applications chapter includes a case study assessment tools multilevel interventions and evaluations and strategies for social