Advocacy, Counselling and Mediation in Casework

Practitioners in the fields of advocacy, counseling, and casework examine the cultural and organizational contexts in which each of these processes has developed as well as their potential usefulness in casework, focusing on the user/worker partnership in caregiving services, and on the increasing need for cooperation between disciplines. Chapters cover areas including child care, disability, mental health, post-traumatic stress management, and health decision making, describing each in a multidisciplinary setting with case illustrations. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Yvonne Joan Craig is a retired social worker, counsellor, editor and JP. She is an active general mediator, founder and voluntary co-ordinator of the Elder Mediation Project. She is also author of Elder Abuse and Mediation (1997) and contributor to many other casework publications.