Handbook Preface

By Karen M. Sowers and Catherine N. Dulmus

Volume Prolusion

By Barbara W. White

Table of Contents

1. The History of Social Work and Social Welfare

By Leslie Leighninger

2. Educating for Social Work

By Julia M. Watkins and Jessica Holmes

3. The Scope of Social Work Practice

By June G. Hopps and Tony B. Lowe

4. Professional Credentials and Professional Regulations: Social Work Professional Development

By Donna DeAngelis and Mary Jo Monahan

5. Social Work Organizations

By Gary Lowe and Terry Singer

6. Values and Ethics for Professional Social Work Practice

By Kimberly Strom-Gottfried

7. The Strengths Perspective: Putting Possibility and Hope to Work in Our Practice

By Dennis Saleebey

8. Child Welfare: Historical Trends, Professionalization and Workforce Issues

By Robin E. Perry and Alberta J. Ellett

9. Family-Based Practice

By Barbara Thomlison

10. School Social Work

By Cynthia Franklin, Beth Gerlach, and Amy Chanmugam

11. Substance Abuse

By Lori K. Holleran Steiker and Samuel A. MacMaster

12. The Mental Health Field of Practice

By King Davis

13. Healing the Disjuncture: Social Work Disability Practice

By Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson

14. Gerontology: A Field of Practice

By Roberta R. Greene and Namkee Choi

15. Forensic Social Work: Current and Emerging Developments

By Katherine van Wormer, Albert Roberts, David W. Springer, and Patricia Brownell

16. International Social Work

By Doreen Elliott and Uma A. Segal

17. Immigrant and Indigenous Populations: Special Populations in Social Work

By Jon Matsuoka and Hamilton I. McCubbin

18. Diversity

By Iris Carlton-LaNey

19. Social and Economic Justice

By Tricia B. Bent-Goodley

20. Putting Evidence-Based Practice into Practice

By James G. Barber

21. Making Social Work Practice More Scientific

By Allen Rubin

22. Issues in Social Work

By Stanley I. Witkin and Roberta Rehner Iversen