Soundings & Ramifications by James Donnelly and South Garden Press

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Ramifications
A social work exploration
of therapeutic space
James Donnelly

Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-0-9672775-1-6

Ramifications contains a series of four essays presented at the International Conference for the Advancement of Private Practice in Social Work (ICAPP) from 2005 to 2008.The essays provide a uniquely social work frame for the practice of psychotherapy. The first essay illustrates the integrative power of a social work perspective applied to psychoanalytic concepts such as transference & counter transference. The therapeutic relationship as providing conditions of hope is the focus of the second essay. In the third essay an in-depth consideration of the centrality of difference and dependence in the therapeutic process is examined. The last essay considers some of the dilemmas and puzzles embedded in the current discussions of evidence based practice. All four essays examine the richness of a social work perspective on therapeutic space.

Soundings
Explorations of social work in a changing health care environment
James Donnelly

Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-9672775-3-0

Soundings offers a series of essays about the challenges facing social work in the continuously changing context of health care provisioning from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Chapter I, Society Page, demonstrates through a series of essays, theoretical and practice attempts to cope with these changes. Chapter II, Tools for Professional Leadership, presents attempts to make operational the concepts developed in the first chapter. The therapeutic functions of social work in discharge planning and long-term care are framed with clear emphasis on the task within a clearly defined therapeutic function. A social work perspective on organizational ethics is also addressed. Suggestions for documentation and data collection are included.

Author Bio

During his thirty-five-year career in social work, James Donnelly, DSW, LCSW, has held clinical, supervisory, and administrative social work positions in both medical and mental health settings. He has been the director of social work at Goldwater Memorial Hospital and Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, both in New York City. He has been president of the Metropolitan New York chapter of the Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care and is a member of the NASW Pioneers. He is the author of Love and Knowledge: The Quest for Personal Meaning, a book about psychotherapy and the art of living, and Soundings: Explorations of Social Work in a Changing Health Care Environment. Donnelly maintains a psychotherapy practice in New York City.

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