The Structural Approach to Direct Practice in Social Work: A Social Constructionist Perspective

by Ruth R. Middleman, Gale Goldberg Wood, Gale Goldberg Wood MSW EdD, et al.

Structural social work assumes that clients are adequate people in untenable situations. The social worker must display active appreciation for the client's competence in telling about what does matter rather than what the practitioner thinks should matter.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231055064
• ISBN13: 9780231055062
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher