Human Rights-Based Approaches to Clinical Social Work by S. Megan Berthold

By S. Megan Berthold

This short offers a framework for a way a rights-based technique may be utilized to scientific social paintings perform. The short then illustrates this process by way of utilizing it to perform with survivors (and in a single case perpetrators) of a number of significant human rights matters: torture, human trafficking, and intimate partner/family violence. a special contribution to the social paintings literature, this short demonstrates the appliance and merits of a rights-based strategy outdoors of the area of macro-social paintings perform and judicial and legislative efforts. universal demanding situations to a rights-based method are explored and case reviews and pattern category workouts are integrated to assist practitioners and scholars observe the rules to situations and dilemmas they could confront in real-world practice.

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New York: Human Rights Watch. Teaching Resources 1. Hokenstad, M. C. “Terry”, Healy, L. , & Segal, U. A. ). (2013). Teaching human rights: Curriculum resources for social work educators. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education. 2. Libal, K. , Berthold, S. , Thomas, R. , & Healy, L. M. ). (2014). Advancing human rights in social work education. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education. html). This website seeks to advance the integration of evidence-based mental health treatments into research and social work education.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy, 55(4), 475–490. Ko, S. , Ford, J. , Berkowitz, S. , . . Layne, C. M. (2008). Creating trauma-informed systems: Child welfare, education, first responders, health care, juvenile justice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39(4), 396–404. Lambert, M. , & Shimokawa, K. (2011). Collecting client feedback. Psychotherapy, 48, 72–79. , . . Freed, W. (2012). Treating multi-traumatized, socially-marginalized children: Results of a naturalistic treatment outcome study.

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