Work and Well-Being

The Occupational Social Work Advantage

Preface

Introduction
Sheila H. Akabas

Introduction to Part 1

1. A Profession at the Crossroads: Occupational Social Work -- Present and Future
Michael Lane Smith and Gary M. Gould

2. Employee Assistance Programs: Toward a Comprehensive Service Model
Paul A. Kurzman

3. Practice with Unions: Collaborating Toward an Empowerment Model
Daniel J. Molloy and Paul A. Kurzman

4. Work-Site Research: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Work
Bradley K. Googins

Introduction to Part 2

5. Prevention: An Organizing Concept for Workplace Services
Sheila H. Akabas and Beth Grube Farrell

6 Employee Benefits: The Role of Social Insurance and Social Services
Lawrence S. Root

7. Serving Workers through Managed Mental Health Care: The Social Work Role
Adrienne Asch and Patricia Abelson

8. Ethnic, Cultural, and Racial Diversity in the Workplace
Muriel Gray and Frederica Barrow

9. Family and Work: Trends and Prospects for Dependent Care
Jacquelyn McCroskey and Andrew Scharlach

Introduction to Part 3

10. Work: Its Use in Assessment and Intervention with Clients in the Workplace
Florence Wexler Vigilante

11. Solution-Focused Brief Workplace Counseling
Maria DeOca Corwin

12. Serving the Substance Abuser in the Workplace
Meredith Hanson

13. Managing Disability in the Workplace: A Role for Social Workers
Sheila H. Akabas and Lauren B. Gates

14. The Older Worker and Service Delivery at the Workplace
Cynthia Stuen and Barbara Drahus Worden

15. Military Social Work as Occupational Practice
Jesse J. Harris

Introduction to Part 4

16. Women Workers in High-Risk Public Service: Tokens Under Stress
Barbara Levy Simon and Sheila H. Akabas

17. Stress in the Workplace: A Response from Union Member Assistance Programs
Lee Schore and Jerry Atkin

18. Unemployment and Underemployment: A Policy and Program-Development Perspective
Lawrence S. Root

19. The Emergence of External Employee Assistance Programs
Kurt Spitzer and Alison Favorini

20. An International Perspective on the Development of Social Work in the Workplace
David Bargal

Conclusions: A Futurist View
Paul A. Kurzman

Index

The Editors

The Contributors