Social Work Practice with Veterans
Page Count: 352
ISBN: 978-0-87101-453-5
Published: 2014
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In times of crisis, service members answer the call of duty, making the ultimate sacrifice for their country. When our military service members are called to defend our nation, the entire family system is affected. The families of deployed service members are also called on to serve and sacrifice for their country as they continually accept, adapt, and adjust to the changes that accompany the various stages of the deployment cycle. Social Work Practice with Veterans is a comprehensive, evidence-based social work book that addresses the multiple issues related to working with service members, veterans, and their families.
Service members who return from deployment often face a multitude of physical and mental health issues as they reintegrate back into family life. Social workers serving military service members and veterans need to be competent and knowledgeable about the military culture and informed about the best practices. Social Work Practice with Veterans incorporates all of the 10 Council on Social Work Education Core Competencies and is divided into three major sections.
The book integrates research, practice experience, case studies, theory, and social work values into a single text that covers the entire cycle of deployment and the complicated adjustments associated with posttraumatic stress disorder, suicide, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse, with special chapters devoted to military fathers, gays in the military, military children, and more.
Social Work Practice with Veterans is an excellent resource for social workers, counselors, and mental health professionals who work with the military community.
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Social Work and Veterans: The Call to Serve
Gary L. Dick
Chapter 2: A Brief History of America’s Wars
Jeffrey C. Williams
Chapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives on the Motivation to Enlist
Thomas W. Miller
Chapter 4: The Role of the Social Worker
Gary L. Dick, Bradley J. Schaffer, & Emily Resnik
Part 2: Stressful Transitions
Chapter 5: Deployment: When a Parent Goes to War
Gary L. Dick, Jilian Kuntz, & Nicole Jennings
Chapter 6: Fatherhood and the Military
Gary L. Dick
Chapter 7: Military Children
Gary L. Dick & Donny Marlow
Chapter 8: Gay Individuals in the U.S. Military
Gary L. Dick, Maurice Adkins, Isaac Wright, & Jilian Kuntz
Part 3: Complicated Adjustments
Chapter 9: Adjustment to Civilian Life
Karen Cutright, Allyson M. Wiggins, & Gary L. Dick
Chapter 10: Veterans and Mental Health
Amy L. McMahon & Sophia F. Dziegielewski
Chapter 11: Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Gregory W. Bailey & Susan M. McIlvain
Chapter 12: Veterans and Suicide
Mark Raaker & Emily Resnik
Chapter 13: The Signature Wound: Veterans and Traumatic Brain Injury
Ruth Anne Van Loon, Michelle R. Hubbard, & Rie Aihara
Chapter 14: Veterans and Substance Abuse
Shauna P. Acquavita & Alexa Smith-Osborne
Chapter 15: Homeless Veterans
Bradley J. Schaffer & Gary L. Dick
Chapter 16: War Casualties: When a Service Member Dies
Holly A. Riffe & Rikka C. Bonnette
Chapter 17: Incarcerated Veterans: Social Work in the Criminal Justice System
Bradley J. Schaffer & Gary L. Dick
Chapter 18: Lessons from Those Who Came Before: The Experiences of Vietnam Veterans with Combat-Related Limb Loss
Carrie E. Foote, Regina Pessagno, & Stephen L. Wilson
CSWE Education Policy and Accreditation Standards Core Competencies
Index
Gary L. Dick, PhD, is a professor in the School of Social Work, College of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Gary received his MSW from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, and his PhD from The Ohio State University. His research interests are in fatherhood, instrument development, veterans, domestic violence, and self-esteem. His research instrument, the Fatherhood Scale, has been used in over 60 studies around the world and translated into several different languages. In addition to research and publishing, Gary assumes many social work roles including therapist, trainer, college professor, and workshop presenter. His current clinical practice focuses on children and families, adolescents, men in therapy, and fathers.
Compiled and edited by Gary L. Dick (School of Social Work, College of Allied Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati), Social Work Practice with Veterans is comprised of eighteen informed and informative articles (many of them written or co-written with Professor Dick) and cover a wide range of thematically relevant issues ranging from the role of the social worker, to the children of military veterans, to gays in the military, to the problem of veteran suicide rates, to incarcerated veterans, and so much more. Very highly recommended for professional and academic library Psychology/Counseling reference collections, Social Work Practice with Veterans should be considered a ‘must read’ for social workers, counselors, and mental health professionals who work with the military community.
Michael J. Carson
Reviewer’s Bookwatch
Midwest Book Review
January 2015
Social Work Practice with Veterans was reviewed by David L. Albright for the journal Social Work.
Dick’s Social Work Practice with Veterans provides a collection of chapters focused on social work practice with veterans across a number of treatment settings. This book contributes to the growing body of work on veterans by social work professionals.
Part 1 of the anthology provides an overview on military service and the role of the social worker. Chapter 1 states the case for social work practice with veterans. The importance of this clinical work is rooted in both the behavioral health and mental health needs of many of the veterans of the global war on terrorism and the implication of the NASW Code of Ethics that social workers have an ethical responsibility to veterans.
Chapter 2 provides a brief history of social workers’ involvement in and an overview of America’s major wars, from the Revolutionary War to the Iraq War. It does not cover a number of wars that some of our younger cohorts of men and women veterans might have served in, including the Somali Civil War, the Bosnian or Kosovo Wars, or the War in Pakistan. Dick’s book, however, does not strive to provide a comprehensive history of America’s wars, so overall this is a useful chapter for a practitioner or lay reader seeking a refresher course.
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