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Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services-Fall 2007 E-Alert
 
5/30/08
 

PRACTICE & POLICY FOCUS
Issue 2, 2008

 
Psychiatric and Clinical Social Work
 
New issue explores successful strategies for mental health teams
 
The new edition of Practice & Policy Focus looks at current research and best practices in psychiatric and clinical social work. The online newsletter, a supplement to Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, is provided to the practice community as part of the Alliance for Children and Families’ knowledge-building efforts for the field.
 
  


 

Browse the
Practice & Policy Focus
archive:

• Opportunities in Organizational Change
(2008, Issue 1)

• Art of Social Work Practice
(2007, Issue 4)

• Working But Poor: Next Steps for Social Work
(2007, Issue 3)

• Fathering and Fatherhood
(2007, Issue 2)

• Social Work With At-Risk Youth
(2007, Issue 1)

• Best Practices in Foster Care and Adoption
(2006, Issue 2)

• Ethics and Risk-Management in Social Work
(2006, Issue 1)
 

  
 
What's New?
 
Included are suggestions on:
 
• defining and measuring program effectiveness of mental health services;
• motivating persons with dual disorders—those who have coexisting psychiatric and substance-use disorders;
• incorporating recovery-focused precepts into practice with individuals having severe mental illness; and
• working with children who have biologically-based mental disorders.

In the e-version of Practice & Policy Focus, readers can click on the article titles within the document to access additional information. Links to over 30 related articles from the journal’s extensive archive are also included in the newsletter.

To access the full text of the archive articles online, subscribers should log in to their subscription account.
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