Social Work Practice with Children, Third Edition (eBook)

Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, BCD, RPT-S, a board-certified diplomate in clinical social work and a registered play therapy supervisor, is a leading authority on play therapy with children who have experienced loss and traumatic bereavement. Dr. Webb was Professor at the Fordham University School of Social Service from 1979 until 2008, where she held the endowed James R. Dumpson Chair in Child Welfare Studies, was named University Distinguished Professor of Social Work, and founded Fordham’s Post-Master’s Certificate Program in Child and Adolescent Therapy. Author or editor of numerous books, Dr. Webb is a consulting editor for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma. She is a past board member of the New York Association for Play Therapy and is on the editorial advisory board for the journal Trauma and Loss: Research Interventions. Dr. Webb is an active supervisor, consultant, and trainer who presents frequently at play therapy, social work, trauma, and bereavement conferences in the United States and internationally. She is a recipient of the prestigious Day–Garrett Award from the Smith College School for Social Work.

I. An Ecological–Developmental Framework for Helping Children1. The Challenge of Meeting Children’s Needs2. Necessary Background for Helping ChildrenII. The Process of Helping Children: A Running Case Illustration of a Child in a Single-Parent Homeless Family3. Building Relationships with All Relevant Systems4. The Biopsychosocial Assessment of the Child5. Contracting, Planning Interventions, and Tracking ProgressIII. Different Methods of Helping Children6. Working with the Family7. Individual Play Therapy8. Group Work with Children9. School-Based InterventionsIV. Helping Children in Special Circumstances10. Children Living in Kinship and Foster Home Placements11. Children in Single-Parent, Divorcing, and Blended Families12. Children in Families Affected by Illness and Death13. Children in Substance-Abusing Families14. Child Victims and Witnesses of Family and Community Violence15. The Interpersonal Violence of Bullying16. The Impact of a Changing World on Practice with and for ChildrenAppendices:Child-Related Professional OrganizationsChild-Related Professional JournalsTraining Programs and CertificationsSuppliers of Play MaterialsBereavement ResourcesForms for Assessment of the Bereaved ChildForms for Assessment of the Child in Crisis