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Pardeck and his contributors approach the topic of family health from a macro perspective. Family health is a holistic approach to treatment embracing aspects of family functioning not typically considered in other more traditional approaches to assessment and treatment. They place particular emphasis on the ecological context in which the family functions, including the neighborhood, community, and other larger social systems.
Family health is defined as the development of, and continuous interaction among, the physical, mental, emotional, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of the family, that result in the holistic well-being of the family and its members. The chapters in the book are guided by a number of key premises, including (a) Family health social work practice is grounded in a biopsychosocial approach to assessment and treatment; (b) Family health is based in a systems-ecological approach to assessment and intervention because of the role that various systems play in the well-being of the family; (c) Family health views the family system as the most important system for promoting the growth and development of the person; (d) Family health social work practice requires close collaboration between social work practitioners and other professionals. Based on these basic premises, Pardeck focuses on the macro level issues of family health practice that include community intervention, policy and program development, and program administration. The book is an important resource for social work professionals, scholars, students, and other researchers involved with social work practice and human services.
List of contents
Preface by John T. Pardeck
An Introduction to Macro Level Family Health Social Work Practice by John T. Pardeck
An Exploration of Family Health in the Social Work Literature by John T. Pardeck
Clinical Instruments for Assessing Family Health by John T. Pardeck
Treating Family Stress through the Family Health Approach by John T. Pardeck
Analysis of Factors Preventing the Development of a National Policy for Supporting Family Health by John T. Pardeck
A Family Health Organizational Model: Policy and Practice by Diane Elliott
Family Health and Social and Economic Justice by John Gunther and Alan Kirk
Adapting Family Health Principles to a Hispanic Migrant Health Care Model by Susan C. Dollar
Administration and Family Health by Francis K. O. Yuen
Suggested Selected Readings
About the author
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).
