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A Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model

A Social Work Multisystemic Practice Approach

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  • Provides concepts and practice strategies for multisystemic practice and the current issues facing social work
  • Offers tools to support the development of a student from a generalist to an advanced skill set
  • Foreshadows 2022 CSWE Educational Policy on engagement in anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. RESM Research and Theoretical Background

  2. The RESM Method: Narrative Interviewing

  3. RESM Multisystemic Applications

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About this book

Social work practice has evolved to meet the needs of the time, the problems that are present, and the knowledge and skills available. Given the more recent rapidly changing stressful environments, political, economic, demographic, sociocultural, and ideological change has affected how practice is defined. Now it is even more essential for there to be innovative theoretical concepts and intervention strategies to support current practice. This textbook addresses today’s context of social work practice that needs to deal with the complexity of personal and social relationships, the continuing historical flux of the times, and the constant anxiety or "threats and pulls" of daily life. 


The text is based on the idea that social work practice requires a research and theoretical base that allows practitioners to build on a client's ability to persist in the face of life's challenges and to proceed positively with life events. The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model (RESM) is an outgrowth of the profession’s interest in strength-based person-environment approaches — grounded in generalist social work practice that offers a range of intervention practice methods with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. RESM was developed to provide the skill set for working with clients and constituencies across the individual-family-community configuration during times of distress. It also can be a welcomed addition to social work practice with people undertaking life transitions and overcoming disruption to individual, family, and community function.  


Topics explored include:
  • An Evolving Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model
  • Interviewing to Promote Resilience Among Marginalized Populations
  • Co-creating a Grand Narrative: The Intersection of Individual, Family, and Community Practice
  • Connecting Communal Living, Ecology, and Resilience


A Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: A Social Work Multisystemic Practice Approach is a timely text for human behavior and practice methods at the generalist or advanced generalist levels in social work. It can also be used at the doctoral level of social work education depending on the professor’s attention to the depth of theoretical concepts. Practitioners in the field may find the contents useful to their professional enrichment.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Roberta Greene

  • School of Social Work, San Jose State University, San José, USA

    Nicole Dubus

  • School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, USA

    Nancy Greene

About the authors

Roberta Greene, PhD, MSW, LCSW, 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 impact on national health, public policy, and/or professional standards.  Dr. Greene has served on the CSWE 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 written numerous 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).

 

Nicole Dubus, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in California and Massachusetts, with almost 30 years of licensed clinical experience. She has worked in private social service agencies; health and behavioral centers and hospitals; as well as county and state agencies.  She is an associate professor in Social Work at San Jose State University in California. Her research has been international and primarily focused on the health and behavioral health needs of refugees and forced migrants, emphasizing culturally effective practice for these populations. She has been researching the life course experience of refugees since 2007. She was a Fulbright Specialist assisting Iceland’s resettlement of Syrian refugee families. She has presented on her research at national and international conferences.

 

Nancy Greene, DSW, MSW, MA, LCSW, has an MSW from the University of Texas-Austin and a MS 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 at Norfolk State University School of Social Work in Virginia where she teaches human behavior in the social environment and practice methods.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model

  • Book Subtitle: A Social Work Multisystemic Practice Approach

  • Authors: Roberta Greene, Nicole Dubus, Nancy Greene

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08112-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08111-8Published: 24 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08114-9Published: 25 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08112-5Published: 23 August 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 166

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Ethics and Values in Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Social Work

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