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Rural social work : building and sustaining community capacity
Down-home social work : a strengths-based model for rural practice / Michael R. Daley and Freddie L. Avant -- Rural is real : history of the National Rural Social Work Caucus and the NASW professional policy statement on rural social work / Samuel A. Hickman -- Social welfare and rural people : from the colonial era to the present / Paul H. Stuart -- Out of sight, out of mind : rural social work and African American women at Efland home for girls, 1920-1938 / Tanya Smith Brice -- Accomplishing the four essential tasks for higher education access : the role of natural helping networks in rural Virginia / Nathan F. Alleman and L. Neal Holly -- African Americans living in rural community : builiding assets from an Afrocentric perspective / Freddie L. Avant -- Latino populations in rural America : using strengths to build capacity / Griselda Villalobos -- Building community among rural gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons : connecting community through families of choice / Amy C. Russell -- Rural children and adolescents : building capacities within public schools / Linda Openshaw -- Evidence based practice in the rural context / Danielle E. Parrish and Kathi R. Trawver -- Wraparound in rural child and youth mental health : coalescing family-community capacities / Tamara S. Davis -- Help-seeking pathways to care : culturally competent practice with rural Hispanics with high migratory traditions to the United States / Dennis L. Poole and Alex Espadas -- Social workers and rural congregations : partnering to build community capacity / T. Laine Scales and Jon E. Singletary -- Working together to improve services for people living with HIV/AIDS : an example of service delivery network development from rural northeast Texas / H. Stephen Cooper, Freddie L. Avant and Wilma Cordova -- Building capacity to overcome challenges in the delivery of hospice and palliative care in rural communities / Amy Z. Boelk and Jessica H. Retrum -- Capacity for conservation : rural communities address sustainability for global impact / Kathleen Belanger -- Living in limbo : homeless families in rural America / Jim Winship -- Location matters : using GIS mapping to address policy issues in rural areas / Donna M. Aguiniga and Amanda M. Davis -- Using an assessment framework for research in a rural context / Susan A. Murty -- Using concept mapping for assessment and planning in rural communities : identifying capacities through participation / Tamara S. Davis and H. Stephen Cooper -- Rural networks : using social network analysis to understand communities / Calvin L. Streeter and H. Stephen Cooper
Decision cases for advanced social work practice : confronting complexity
Risk management in social work : preventing professional malpractice, liability, and disciplinary action
Professional risk management : an overview -- Professional malpractice and liability -- Key concepts in risk management -- The elements of malpractice and liability -- Process versus outcome and the standard of care -- Damages in liability cases -- Confidentiality and privileged communication -- The concept of privacy -- Common confidentiality issues -- The concept of privileged communication -- Responding to subpoenas and court orders -- Unintentional disclosure of confidential information -- The delivery of services -- Clients' rights -- Informed consent -- Clinical assessment and intervention -- Negligent intervention -- Boundary issues and dual relationships -- Managing boundary risks -- Undue influence -- Suicide -- Involuntary civil commitment -- Protective services -- Defamation of character -- Digital technology and social media -- Impaired social workers -- The nature of impairment -- Extent of impairment -- Causes of impairment -- Sexual abuse of clients -- Practitioner substance abuse -- Response to impairment -- Risk management strategy -- The challenge for social work -- Supervision: clients and staff -- Client supervision -- Staff supervision -- Supervision case law -- Supervision of volunteers -- Liability and social work education -- Preventing supervisory liability -- Consultation, referral, documentation, and records -- Consultation in social work -- Referral in social work -- Social work documentation and records -- Evolution of social work standards -- Risk management standards and guidelines -- Deception and fraud -- Self-interested deception and fraud -- Deception and fraud motivated by altruism -- Termination of service -- The concept of abandonment -- Premature termination -- Prevention strategy -- Responding to lawsuits and ethics complaints: the role of prevention -- In the event of a lawsuit or licensing board complaint -- The role of the expert witness -- Preventing lawsuits and licensing board complaints: good practice -- Preventing lawsuits and licensing board complaints: good ethics -- Ethical dilemmas and decision making -- Conducting an ethics audit