Communicating Hope : An Ethnography of a Children's Mental Health Care Team
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| Title: | Communicating Hope : An Ethnography of a Children's Mental Health Care Team |
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| Description: | Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress. In this ethnography of a children's mental health care team, communication scholar Christine S. Davis delves deeply into how members of the team create hope for themselves, for Kevin, and for his family using a strengths orientation and future focus. A rich, evocative narrative that highlights multiple voices and interpretations, Davis provides a multilayered study of how social service workers can motivate and heal troubled families in challenging environments. The volume includes clinical and practice considerations for those working in the social welfare system |
| Authors: | Christine S. Davis |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Medical care, Health services administration, Children, Health care teams, Mental health services, Mentally ill children--Services for--Case studies, Psychiatric social work--Case studies, Social work with children--Case studies, National health services, Child mental health services--Case studies |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Kevin is a sometimes-violent teenager with severe emotional disturbance in a family environment of poverty and stress. In this ethnography of a children's mental health care team, communication scholar Christine S. Davis delves deeply into how members of the team create hope for themselves, for Kevin, and for his family using a strengths orientation and future focus. A rich, evocative narrative that highlights multiple voices and interpretations, Davis provides a multilayered study of how social service workers can motivate and heal troubled families in challenging environments. The volume includes clinical and practice considerations for those working in the social welfare system |
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| ISBN: | 9781611321234 9780815346531 9781611321258 9781315432038 9781315432045 9781315432052 |
