REACHING HIGH-RISK FAMILIES
Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services
MODERN APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
An Aldine de Gruyter Series of Texts and Monographs
SERIES EDITOR
James K. Whittaker
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Richard P. Barth and Marianne Berry, Adoption and Disruption: Rates, Risks, and Responses
Kathleen Ell and Helen Northen, Families and Health Care: Psychosocial Practice
Marian Fatout, Models for Change in Social Group Work
Mark W. Fraser, Peter J. Pecora, and David A. Haapala, Families in Crisis: The Impact of Intensive Family Preservation Services
James Garbarino, Children and Families in the Social Environment (second edition)
James Garbarino, Patrick E. Brookhouser, Karen J. Authier, and Associates, Special ChildrenSpecial Risks: The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
James Garbarino, Cynthia J. Schellenbach, Janet Sebes, and Associates, Troubled Youth, Troubled Families: Understanding Families At-Risk for Adolescent Maltreatment
Roberta R. Greene, Social Work with the Aged and Their Families
Roberta R. Greene and Paul H. Ephross, Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice
Andr M. Ivanoff, Betty J. Blythe, and Tony Tripodi, Research-Based Practice with Involuntary Clients
Jill Kinney, David A. Haapala, and Charlotte Booth, Keeping Families Together: The Homebuilders Model
Paul K. H. Kim (ed.), Serving the Elderly: Skills for Practice
Robert M. Moroney, Shared Responsibility: Families and Social Policy
Robert M. Moroney, Social Policy and Social Work: Critical Essays on the Welfare State
Peter J. Pecora and Mark Fraser, A Practical Guide to Evaluating Family Preservation Services
Peter J. Pecora, Mark W. Fraser, Kristine Nelson, Jacqueline McCroskey, and William Meezan, Evaluating Family-Based Services
Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Anthony N. Maluccio, Richard P. Barth, and Robert D. Plotnick, The Child Welfare Challenge: Policy, Practice, and Research
Norman A. Polansky, Integrated Ego Psychology (second edition)
Robert L. Rubinstein, Janet C. Kilbride, Sharon Nagy, Elders Living Alone: Frailty and the Perception of Choice
Deborah Valentine and Patricia G. Conway, Guide for Helping the Natural Healer
Betsy S. Vourlekis and Roberta R. Greene (eds). Social Work Case Management
Heather B. Weiss and Francine H. Jacobs (eds.), Evaluating Family Programs
James K. Whittaker, Jill Kinney, Elizabeth M. Tracy, and Charlotte Booth (eds.), Reaching High-Risk Families: Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services
James K. Whittaker and Elizabeth M. Tracy, Social Treatment, 2nd Edition: An Introduction to Interpersonal Helping in Social Work Practice
REACHING HIGH-RISK FAMILIES
Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services
Edited by
James K. Whittaker, Jill Kinney, Elizabeth M. Tracy, and Charlotte Booth
About the Editors
James K. Whittaker is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Work Ph.D. Program at the University of Washington.
Jill Kinney is Executive Director, Behavioral Sciences Institute, Federal Way, Washington.
Elizabeth M. Tracy is Assistant Professor, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University.
Charlotte Booth is Associate Director, Behavioral Sciences Institute, Federal Way, Washington.
First published 1990 by Transaction Publishers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reaching high-risk families: intensive family preservation in human
services/James K. Whittaker... [et al.].
p. cm.(Modem applications of social work)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-202-36057-1.ISBN 0-202-36058-X (pbk.)
1. Family social workUnited States. I. Whittaker, James K.
II. Series.
HV699.R38 1990
362.82'8'0973dc20
89-18008
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-202-36058-4 (pbk)
CONTENTS
Peter W. Forsythe
James K. Whittaker and Elizabeth M. Tracy
Douglas Nelson
Jill Kinney, David Haapala, Charlotte Booth and Shelley Leavitt
Brenda G. McGowan
Richard P. Barth
Anthony N. Maluccio
Peter J. Pecora
Betty J. Blythe
Mark Fraser and Shelley Leavitt
J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano
Richard Barth
School of Social Welfare
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Betty Blythe
School of Social Work
University of Pittsburgh
2206 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 14260
Charlotte Booth
Associate Director
Behaviorial Sciences Institute
34004 9th Ave. S., Suite 8
Federal Way, WA 98003
Richard F. Catalano
School of Social Work
University of Washington
4101 15th Avenue N.E. JH-30
Seattle, WA 98195
Elizabeth Cole,
Consultant Childrens Services Consultants
286 Thompson Mill Road
New Hope, PA 18938
Mark W. Fraser
Graduate School of Social Work
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
David Haapala, Executive Director
Behavioral Sciences Institute
Ninth Avenue Center, Bldg. A
34004 9th Ave. S. Suite 8
Federal Way, WA 98003
J. David Hawkins
School of Social Work
University of Washington
4101 15th Avenue N.E. JH-30
Seattle, WA 98003
]ill Kinney, Executive Director
Behavioral Sciences Institute
Ninth Avenue Center, Bldg. A
34004 9th Ave. S. Suite 8
Federal Way, WA 98003
Shelley Leavitt
Director of Training
Behaviorial Sciences Institute
34004 9th Ave. S., Suite 8
Federal Way, WA 98003
Anthony N. Maluccio
School of Social Work
University of Connecticut
1798 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117-2698
Brenda McGowan
School of Social Work
Columbia University McVicar,
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
Douglas Nelson, Deputy Director
Center for the Study of Social Work
1250 Eye Street N.W. Suite 503
Washington, DC 20005
Peter Pecora
Graduate School of Social Work
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Eliazabeth Tracy
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences