This new edition presents an updated version of the art and science of clinical sociologists around the world. Presenting basic clinical sociology diagrams and models, as well as detailed histories of clinical sociology in various countries, it also discusses a wide range of interventions in light of a countrys economic, social, political and disciplinary history. This book includes new chapters on South African clinical sociology, climate resilience in the Philippines, children's human rights, gender integration in the military and substance abuse intervention. This book will be of great interest to upper level undergraduate and graduate students in sociology as well as social science practitioners and academics.
Preface.- Part I: The Essentials.
Chapter
1. Introduction (Jan Marie
Fritz).
Chapter
2. The Basics: From Concepts to Models (Jan Marie Fritz).-
Part II: Regional Histories.
Chapter
3. The History of Clinical Sociology in
the United States (Jan Marie Fritz).
Chapter
4. Clinical Sociology in
Québec: When Europe Meets America (Jacques Rhéaume).
Chapter
5. On the
Origins of Clinical Sociology in France: Some Milestones (Vincent de
Gaulejac).
Chapter
6. Clinical Sociology in Japan (Yuji Noguchi and Hideyo
Nakamura).
Chapter
7. The Emergence of Clinical Sociology in South Africa
(Tina Uys).- Part III: Selected Applications.
Chapter
8. The Patients
Personal Experience of Schizophrenia in China: A Clinical Sociology Approach
to Mental Health (Robert Sevigny).
Chapter
9. Bridging Social Capital: A
Clinical Sociology Approach to Substance Use Intervention (Miriam Boeri).-
Chapter
10. Children's Human Rights as a Buffer to Extremism: A Clinical
Sociology Framework (Yvonne Vissing).-Chapter
11. Clinical Sociology
Contributions to the Field of Mediation (Jan Marie Fritz).
Chapter
12. The
Art of Facilitation (Jan Marie Fritz).
Chapter
13. Organizational Consulting
for Strategic Change in a Public School in Colombia (Fernando de Yzaguirre).-
Chapter
14. Climate Resilience Initiative in Metro Manila: Participatory
Community Risk Assessment and Power in Community Interventions (Emma Porio).-
Chapter
15. The South African Military and Gender Integration: Bridging
Theory and Practice (Lindy Heinecken).
Chapter
16. Focus Groups in the
Context of International Development: In Pursuit of the Millennium and
Sustainable Development Goals (Janet Mancini Billson).- Index.
Jan Marie Fritz, Ph.D., C.C.S., is a Professor at the University of Cincinnati and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. She was a Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Honors College at the University of South Florida, Fulbright Senior Scholar with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and International Studies at the Danish Institute of Human Rights and Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She has received a number of awards including the American Sociological Associations Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, the Ohio Mediation Associations Better World Award and the Lester Ward Award from the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology, She was a Vice-President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and is an ISA representative to the UN. She is a member of the ISA Executive Committee, the Mayor of Cincinnati's Gender Equality Task Force and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
