Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice

1. Introducing the Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model.- 2. The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: Articulating Anti-Oppressive Practice.- 3. Exploring the Role of Cultural Diversity in Resilient Social Functioning: Theory and Skills.- 4. Countering Human Rights Violations During Life Transitions.- 5. The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: A Practice Overview and Guide.- 6. Transitioning From Hospital to Home: Resilience-Enhancing Skills for Health Care Social Workers.- 7. Envisioning Functions and Skills for Resilience-Enhancing Nursing Home Social Workers.- 8. Resilience-Enhancing Skills for Developmental Transitions: Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.- 9. Transmitting Resilience Through Family Communication and Organization.- 10. Maintaining Resilience Following Loss or Illness.- 11. Facilitating Community Development Following Disruption.- 12. Interactional Resilience for Aging Out of Care: A South African Example.- . Epilogue.

Roberta Greene, PhD, MSW, professor emerita, was the Louis and Ann Wolens Centennial Chair in Gerontology and Social Welfare at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, she was dean of social work at Indiana University. Dr. Greene has a wide range of practice experience, including clinical practice, clinical supervision, policy, administrative, and research expertise. She is an NASW Pioneer, known for her advocacy work on nursing home reform. She was the 2015 recipient of the Knee/Whitman Outstanding Achievement Award, which recognizes significant impacts on national health, public policy, and/or professional standards. Dr. Greene has served on the Council on Social Work Education's Educational Policy Commission. A Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America, she has conducted significant research on resilience among Holocaust survivors. A prolific author, she has authored 21 books, six of which are on resilience. Others include A Handbook of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (Aldine Transaction Press, 2017), Caregiving and Care Sharing: A Life Course Perspective (NASW Press, 2014), and Human Behavior Theory and Social Work Practice With Marginalized Oppressed Populations (Routledge, 2019). 

Nancy Greene, DSW, MSW, MA has a master of social work from The University of Texas at Austin and a master of arts from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her doctorate is from the University of Southern California. She is a licensed clinical social worker who has practiced in home health care and hospice. She has taught for Tulane University, Grand Canyon University, and Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina. Dr. Greene is currently an assistant professor in the Norfolk State University School of Social Work, where she teaches human behavior in the social environment and practice methods. 

Connie Corley, PhD, MSW, MA has a long history in the fields of gerontology