Table of Contents:
  • 1. Precursors of mental health problems for low birth weight children: the salience of family environment during the first year of life
  • 2. Resilient children: What they tell us about coping with maltreatment
  • 3. Five images of maturity in adolescence: What does "grown up" mean
  • 4. Parent-child synchrony and adolescent adjustment
  • 5. Parenting expectations and concerns of fathers and mothers of newborn infants
  • 6. Parenting stress and externalizing child behavior
  • 7. Parental divorce and young adult children's romantic relationships: Resolutions of the divorce experience
  • 8. Envisioning fatherhood: A social psychological perspective on young men without kids
  • 9. The function of fathers: What poor men say about fatherhood
  • 10. 'Undeserving' mothers? Practitioners' experiences working with young mothers in/from care
  • 11. Redifining motherhood; adaptation to role change for women with AIDS
  • 12. The long-term outcome of reunions between adult adopted people and their birth mothers
  • 13. Adoption as a family form
  • 14. The trouble with foster care: The impact of stressful 'events' on foster carers
  • 15. The importance of partners to lesbian intergenerational relationships
  • 16. The evolution of homoerotic behavior in humans
  • 17. Heterosexual masculinity and homophobia
  • 18. From grandparent to care giver: The stress and satisfaction of raising grandchildren
  • 19. Grandparents raising grandchildren: Families in transition
  • 20. Later-life transitions into widowhood
  • 21. Understanding the ageing process: A developmental perspective of the psychosocial and spiritual dimensions
  • 22. Values underlying end-of-life decisions: A qualitative approach
  • Part II: Problem as a Component of Diagnosis.
  • A. Problems with a Mental Illness Basis
  • 23. A new understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Alternate concepts and interventions
  • 24. When she was bad: Borderline personality disorder in a posttraumatic age
  • 25. Clinical features of survivors of sexual abuse with major depression
  • 26. Panic disorder and self states: clinical and research illustrations
  • 27. Obsessive-compulsive symptomatology: A goal-directed response to anticipated traumatization
  • 28. Early-onset schizophrenia: A literature review of empirically-based interventions
  • B. Problems of a Psychosocial Nature
  • 29. Domestic violence in later life: An overview for health care providers
  • 30. Homeless persons with mental illness and their families: Emerging issues from clinical work
  • 31. Shyness and social phobia: A social work perspective on a problem in living
  • 32. Smoking cessation: Increasing practice understanding and time-limited intervention strategy
  • 33. Stalking: The constant threat of violence
  • 34. Social work with clients contemplating suicide: Complexity and ambiguity in the clinical, ethical, and legal considerations
  • 35. Posttraumatic stress symptoms following near-death experiences
  • 36. Lost boys: Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them
  • C. Problems with a Physical Basis
  • 37. A descriptive analysis of older adults with HIV/AIDS in California
  • 38. Coping strategies, life style changes, and pessimism after open-heart surgery
  • 39. The experience of deafened adults: Implications for rehabilitation services
  • 40. Challenges of Type 2 diabetes and role of health care social work: A neglected area of practice
  • 41. Dialysis patient characteristics and outcomes
  • 42. Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type
  • Part III. What Elements of Diversity Need to be Addressed in Our Diagnosis?
  • 43. Africans and racism in the New Millennium
  • 44. Cultural determinants in the treatment of Arab Americans: A primer for mainstream therapists
  • 45. A body-mind-spirit model in health: An Eastern approach
  • 46. Does social work oppress Evangelical Christians? A "new class" of society and social work
  • 47. Depressive symptoms in farm women: Effects of health status and farming life style characteristics, behaviors and beliefs
  • 48. Social work with immigrants and refugees: Developing a participation-based framework for anti-oppressive practice
  • 49. Native Hawaiian traditional healing: Culturally based interventions for social work practice.
  • 50. Cultural and linguistic considerations in psychodiagnosis with Hispanics: The need for an empirically informed process model
  • 51. Working with victims of persecution: Lessons from Holocaust survivors
  • 52. Migrants and their parents: Care giving from a distance
  • 53. Biracial sensitive practice: Expanding social services to an invisible population
  • 54. Constructing ethnicity: Culture and ethnic conflict in the New World Disorder
  • 55. Race and ethnicity, nativity and issues of health care
  • 56. Racism as a clinical syndrome
  • 57. Constructing a place for religion and spirituality in psychodynamic practice
  • 58. Mental health and social justice: Gender, race and psychological consequences of unfairness
  • 59. Impact of the threat of war on children in military families
  • 60. The financial vulnerability of people with disabilities
  • 61. Changing the rules: a board game lets homeless women tell their stories
  • 62. The use of crisis teams in response to violent or critical incidents in schools
  • 63. Nurturing life with dreams: Theraputic dream work with cancer patients
  • 64. Using eye movement desensitization to enhance treatment of couples
  • 65. Depression, existential family therapy, and Victor Frankl's dimensional ontology
  • 66. Food for thought: The use of food in group therapy with children and adolescents
  • 67. "Less is best"
  • a group-based treatment program for persons with personality disorders
  • 68. The harm reduction approach revisited: An international perspective
  • 69. Identifying human remains following an air disaster: The role of social work
  • 70. Long distance psychoanalysis
  • 71. Money as a tool for negotiating separateness and connectedness in the therapeutic relationship
  • 72. A narrative perspective on "doing" for multiproblem families
  • 73. The value of pets in geriatric practice: A program example
  • 74. Motivational enhancement counseling strategies in delivering a telephone-based brief HIV prevention intervention
  • 75. Resolving therapeutic impasses by using the supervisor's countertransference
  • 76. Parent training via CD-ROM: Using technology to disseminate effective prevention practices
  • 77. On being a strength coach: Child welfare and the strengths model
  • 78. Evaluation of yoga and meditation with adolescent sex offenders.