"Has also been published as Journal of independent social work, volume 5, numbers 3/4, 1991"--Title page verso.

Family systems thinking and the social work dean / D. Ray Bardill -- Training on the person of the therapist for work with the poor and minorities / Harry J. Aponte -- Teaching family systems therapy to social work students / Roberta Tonti -- Training social workers in public welfare : some useful family concepts / Mildred Flashman -- AIDS, crack, poverty, and race in the African-American community : the need for an ecosystemic approach / Gillian Walker, Sippio Small -- Home based work with families : the environmental context of family intervention / Elizabeth M. Tracy, James R. McDonell -- Doing with very little : treatment of homeless substance abusers / Insoo Kim Berg, Larry Hopwood -- The community residence as a family : in the name of the father / Barbara Lou Fenby -- A three step plan for African-American families involved with foster care : sibling therapy, mothers' group therapy, family therapy / Karen Gail Lewis. Every clinical social worker is in post-adoption practice / Ann Hartman -- Shame and violence : considerations in couples' treatment / Dennis Balcom -- Mental health services--2001 : serving a new America / Myrtle Parnell, Jo VanderKloot.