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Neuroscience and Social Work Practice
The Missing Link
- Rosemary L. Farmer - Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
February 2009 | 200 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The Missing Link: Contributions of the Neurosciences to Social Work Practice is a supplementary textbook that provides critical missing knowledge about neuroscience and biology that social workers (and other non-medical psychosocial practitioners) need to provide effective services to the individuals, families, groups, and communities that they encounter professionally. It reviews the up-to-date findings from selected areas of neuroscience and present these in a way that persons without a medical background can understand. It shows how and why this new knowledge is needed, and to provide specific examples of how it can be utilized in social work practice.
1. Linking to the Neuroscientific Revolution
2. Tour of the Brain
3. Neuroscience as Link: Transactional Model
4. Linking to Social Work: Attaching and Bonding
5. Linking to Social Work: Trauma
6. Linking to Social Work: Psychotherapy
7. Linking to Social Work: Psychotropic Medications and Drugs of Abuse
Appendix: Teaching Suggestions
References
Index
About the Author
To add about Neuroscience to this course in SW theory.
Social Work Dept, California State University - Bakersfield
September 4, 2012
IF I teach the child development course again soon, this text will be adopted - I think it is an excellent resource - I just am not teaching child development this semester. I think it makes the concepts understandable for Master's level social workers, and I think it is important that they have that understanding.
Applied Soc Sci, Case Western Reserve University
April 24, 2010
This book is very well written & timely but I am looking for similar information for a nursing audience.
F Payne Bolton Sch Of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
January 11, 2010
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1 - Linking to the Neuroscientific Revolution
Chapter 3 - Neuroscience as Link