In Short-Term Treatment and Social Work Practice: An Integrative Perspective, Eda G. Goldstein and Maryellen Noonan take the best of theories that social workers have relied on for decades, including ego psychology, other psychodynamic and ...

Answering the need for an integrated, clinically relevant text on Borderline Disorders, this volume provides a flexible approach that draws from ego psychology, object relations theory, self psychology, and child development research.

This volume opens with a historical perspective on the role of relational thinking in social work and the evolution of relational theory.

In social work, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.

The book concludes by discussing the issues faced by lesbian therapists in treating lesbian patients and in interacting with heterosexual colleagues.

Self-psychologically informed treatment, which, in Goldstein's pragmatic purview, draws on supportive, psychodynamic, and psychoanalytic modalities, enables patients to find new ways of affirming their sense of self."--BOOK JACKET.