Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Sandra J. Weiss and Mary St. John Seed: Precursors of mental health problems for low birth weight children: the salience of family environment during the first year of life
2: Darla L. Henry: Resilient children: What they tell us about coping with maltreatment
3: Lauree C. Tilton-Weaver, Erin T. Vitunski and Nancy L. Galambos: Five images of maturity in adolescence: What does "grown up" mean?
4: James G. Barber, Floyd Bolitho and Lorne Bertrand: Parent-child synchrony and adolescent adjustment
5: Greer Litton Fox, Carol Bruce and Terri Combs-Orme: Parenting expectations and concerns of fathers and mothers of newborn infants
6: J. Morgan, D. Robinson and J. Aldridge: Parenting stress and externalizing child behavior
7: Shmuel Shulman, Miri Scharf, Daniel Lumer, and Offer Maurer: Parental divorce and young adult children's romantic relationships: Resolutions of the divorce experience
8: William Marsiglio, Sally Hutchinson and Mark Cohen: Envisioning fatherhood: A social psychological perspective on young men without kids
9: Kathleen A. Kost: The function of fathers: What poor men say about fatherhood
10: Deborah Rutman, Susan Strega, Marilyn Callahan and Lena Dominelli: 'Undeserving' mothers? Practitioners' experiences working with young mothers in/from care
11: Ruth Anne Van Loon: Redifining motherhood; adaptation to role change for women with AIDS
12: David Howe and Julia Feast: The long-term outcome of reunions between adult adopted people and their birth mothers
13: Karen March and Charlen Miall: Adoption as a family form
14: Kate Wilson, Ian Sinclair and Ian Gibbs: The trouble with foster care: The impact of stressful 'events' on foster carers
15: Michael C. LaSala: The importance of partners to lesbian intergenerational relationships
16: Frank Muscarella: The evolution of homoerotic behavior in humans
17: Peter S. Theodore and Susan A. Basow: Heterosexual males: A group forgotten by the profession of social work
18: Deborah P. Waldorp and Joseph A. Weber: From grandparents to care giver: The stress and satisfaction of raising grandchilren
19: Joseph A. Weber and Deborah P. Waldorp: Grandparents raising grandchildren: Families in transition
20: Cheryl D. Lee and Louanne Bakk: Later-life transitions into widowhood
21: Elizabeth MacKinlay: Understanding the ageing process: A developmental perspective of the psychosocial and spiritual dimensions
22: Ronit D. Leichtentritt: Values underlying end-of-life decisions: A qualitative approach
Part II: Problem as a Component of Diagnosis:
A: Problems with a Mental Illness Basis
23: Natalie J. Yeschin: A new understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Alternate concepts and interventions
24: Dana Becker: When she was bad: Borderline personality disorder in a posttraumatic age
25: Caron Zlotnick, Jill Mattia and Mark Zimmerman: Clinical features of survivors of sexual abuse with major depression
26: Donna M. Mahoney: Panic disorder and self states: clinical and research illustrations
27: Dianne W. Trumbull: Obsessive-compulsive symptomatology: A goal-directed response to anticipated traumatization?
28: Catherine N. Dulmus and Nancy J. Smyth: Early-onset schizophrenia: A literature review of empirically-based interventions
B: Problems of a Psychosocial Nature
29: Bonnie Brandl and Deborah L. Horan: Domestic violence in later life: An overview for health care providers
30: Deborah Fisk, Michael Rowe, Dori Laub, Lisa Calvocoressi and Kathleen DeMino: Homeless persons with mental illness and their families: Emerging issues from clinical work
31: Joseph Walsh: Shyness and social phobia: A social work perspective on a problem in living
32: Sophia F. Dziegielewski and Jamie A. Eater: Smoking cessation: Increasing practice understanding and time-limited intervention strategy
33: Shari A. Sinwelski and Linda Vinton: Stalking: The constant threat of violence
34: Faye Mishna, Beverly J. Antle and Cheryl Regehr: Social work with clients comteplating suicide: Complexity and ambiguity in the clinical, ethical, and legal considerations
35: Bruce Greyson: Posttraumatic stress symptoms following near-death experiences
36: James Garbarino: Lost boys: Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them
C: Problems with a Physical Basis
37: Charles A. Emlet and Kathleen J. Farkas: A descriptive analysis of older adults with HIV/AIDS in California
38: Hasida Ben-Zur, Batya Rappaport, Ronny Ammar and Gideon Uretzky: Coping strategies, life style changes, and pessimsm after open-heart surgery
39: Miguel O. Aguayo and Nick F. Coady: The experience of deafened adults: Implications for rehabilitation services
40: Vaughn A. DeCoster: Challenges of Type 2 diabetes and role of health care social work: A neglected area of practice
41: Judith Dobrof, Arlene Dolinko, Elena Lichtiger, Jaime Uribarri and Irwin Epstein:
42: Dorothea Marie Epple: Senile dimentia of the Alzheimer type
Part III: Elements of Diversity to be Addressed in Our Diagnosis
43: Femi Ojo-Ade: Africans and racisms in the New Millennium
44: Anna Y. Nobles and Daniel T. Sciarra: Cultural determinants in the treatment of Arab Americans: A primer for mainstream therapists
45: Cecilia Chan, Petula Sik Ying Ho and Esther Chow: A body-mind-spirit model in health: An Eastern approach
46: David R. Hodge: Does social work oppress Evangelical Christians? A "new class" of society and social work
47: Anne K. Carruth and Cynthia A. Logan: Depressive symptoms in farm women: Effects of health status and farming life style characteristics, behaviors and beliefs
48: Kathleen Valtonen: Social work with immigrants and refugees: Developing a participation-based framework for anti-oppressive practice
49: Donna E. Hurdle: Native Hawaiian traditional healing: Culturally based interventions for social work practice
50: Robert G. Malgady and Luis H. Zayas: Cultural and linguistic considerations in psychodiagnosis with Hispanics: The need for an empirically informed process model
51: Joanne Levine: Working with victims of persecution: Lessons from Holocaust survivors
52: Cora Vellekoop Baldock: Migrants and their parents: Care giving from a distance
53: Ronald E. Hall: Biracial sensitive practice: Expanding social services to an invisible population
54: Kevin Avruch: Constructing ethnicity: Culture and ethnic conflict in the New World Disorder
55: S. Sudha and Elizabeth J. Mutran: Race and ethnicity, nativity and issues of health care
56: James E. Dobbins and Judith H. Skillings: Racism as a clinical syndrome
57: Terry B. Northcut: Constructing a place for religion and spirituality in psychodynamic practice
58: Michael Sheppard: Mental health and social justice: Gender, race and psychological consequences of unfairness
59: Nancy A. Ryan-Wenger: Impact of the threat of war on children in military families
60: Andrew I. Batavia and Richard L. Beaulaurier:
Part IV: What Does Our Diagnosis Lead Us to Do?
61: Guylaine Racine and Odile Sevigny: Changing the rules: A board game lets homeless women tell their stories
62: Verba Fanolis: The use of crisis teams in response to violent or critical incidents in schools
63: Ann Goelitz: Nurturing life with dreams: Therapeutic dream work with cancer patients
64: Howard Protinsky, Jennifer Sparks and Kimberly Flemke: Using eye movement desensitization to enhance treatment of couples
65: Jim Lantz: Depression, existential family therapy, and Victor Frankl's dimensional ontology
66: Faye Mishna, Barbara Muskat, and Gerald Schamess: Food for thought: The use of food in group therapy with children and adolescents
67: Donna Hurdle: "Less is best"-- a group-based treatment program for persons with personality disorders
68: Ming-sum Tsui: The harm reduction approach revisited: An international perspective
69: Christina E. Newhill and Edward W. Sites: Identifying human remains following an air disaster: The role of social work
70: Leah Lipton: Long distance psychoanalysis
71: F. Diane Barth: Money as a tool for negotiating separateness and connectedness in the therapeutic relationship
72: Cigal Knei-Paz and David S. Ribner: A narrative perspective on "doing" for multiproblem families
73: Helen Ebenstein and Jennifer Wortham: The value of pets in geriatric practice: A program example
74: Scott E. Rutledge, Roger A. Roffman, Christine Mahoney, Joseph F. Picciana, James P. Berghuis, and Seth C. Kalichman: Motivational enhancement counseling strategies in delivering a telephone-based brief HIV prevention intervention
75: Herbert S. Stream: Resolving therapeutic impasses by using the supervisor's countertransference
76: Donald A. Gordon: Parent training via CD-ROM: Using technology to dessiminate effective prevention practices
77: Donald N. Noble, Kathleen Perkins and Marian Fatout: On being a strength coach: Child welfare and the strengths model
78: David Derezotes: Evaluation of yoga and meditation with adolescent sex offenders

Reviews

"This volume can be useful to novice and experienced clinicians alike to quickly refresh their memories...easily accessible and is an important reference for any clinician."--Social Work Today
"This excellent contribution will be sure to enhance our understanding of diagnosis."-Florence Vigilante, Hunter College School of Social Work and Senior Editor, Journal of Teaching in Social Work
"An extraordinary achievement and the author has my congratulations and gratitude for producing what will prove to be the essential guidebook for social work practitioners." --Barbara Thomlison, Florida International University
"A resource that honors the profession."-Gerald Schamess, Smith College
"This reference of 782 narrative pages extends over a breadth of diverse topics relevant to social work diagnosis and hence practice...a significant addition to any social worker's professional library."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
"This volume can be useful to novice and experienced clinicians alike to quickly refresh their memories...easily accessible and is an important reference for any clinician."--Social Work Today
"A must have and a must read for every social work educator, student, and practitioner."-G. Brent Angell, University of Windsor
"This volume continues Dr. Turner's work to encourage excellence in clinical social work and to guide professionals and students in understanding the importance of diagnosis."-Kathleen J. Farkas, Case Western Reserve University
"These essays offer important guidelines for today's social workers. Taken together they present diagnosis not as an intellectual conclusion but as a relationship-based process." -Eric Sainsbury, University of Sheffield
"A rich and impressive collection."-John R. Graham, University of Calgary
"An extraordinary achievement and the author has my congratulations and gratitude for producing what will prove to be the essential guidebook for social work practitioners."-Barbara Thomlison, Florida International University
"This excellent contribution will be sure to enhance our understanding of diagnosis."-Florence Vigilante, Hunter College School of Social Work and Senior Editor, Journal of Teaching in Social Work
"A resource that honors the profession." -Gerald Schamess, Smith College
"This reference of 782 narrative pages extends over a breadth of diverse topics relevant to social work diagnosis and hence practice...a significant addition to any social worker's professional library."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare