Family Health Social Work Practice

Community intervention, policy and program development, and program administration are among the macro level issues relating to family health practice addressed by social work researchers at a number of US universities. Their topics include family health in the social work literature, clinical instruments for assessing family health, an organizational model, social and economic justice, and adapting family health principles to a Hispanic migrant health care model. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

JOHN T. PARDECK is Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Work at Southwest Missouri State University. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Professor Pardeck is the author or editor of booklength studies, including Social Work After the Americans with Disabilities Act (Auburn House, 1998), Social Work Practice (Auburn House, 1996), and Children in Foster Care and Adoption (Greenwood Press, 1998).