Essential Skills of Social Work Practice: Assessment, Intervention, Evaluation - Softcover

Thomas O Hare (MSW, PhD Rutgers University) is associate professor at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. He has extensive experience as a clinical social worker and evaluation consultant in community mental health centers. He has published extensively on co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in young adults and persons with serious mental illnesses. He is a long-time advocate of evidence-based social work practices.

This solid new practice skills textbook is a promising new contender into the expanding market of choices for faculty to select from. Professor Thomas O'Hare has done a terrific job in integrating the art and science of interpersonal practice into a very informative and contemporary text which would make a wonderful choice in teaching foundation clinical skills. It is a pleasing blend of history, theory, assessment, intervention, and evaluation which is rarely encountered or so written about so knowledgeably. --Bruce Thyer, Florida State University

The author does a particularly nice job of confronting and countering [myths] . . . The depth of discussion on ethics, in particular, is welcomed and is unique to this foundational practice text. [O'Hare's book] is anything but dry. --Helen Land, Social Development Issues

This impressive book effectively provides comprehensive information in a clear, easily digestible manner. We predict it will become a staple in foundation BSW and MSW courses, and perhaps in a range of human service courses. --Katherine P. Luke & Brian E. Perron, Research on Social Work Practice 2009