TY - BOOK AU - Wise,Judith Bula TI - Empowerment practice with families in distress T2 - Empowering the powerless SN - 0231124627 AV - HV697 .W57 2005 U1 - 362.82532 22 PY - 2005///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Family social work KW - Social work with people with social disabilities KW - Dysfunctional families KW - Services for KW - Power (Social sciences) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index; 1; Empowerment then and now --; 2; Seeing families through an empowerment lens --; 3; The Laurencio-Smith family : our differences saved us --; 4; The Williams family : new lives beyond incest --; 5; The Brown-Wiley family : homeless no more --; 6; The phases and actions of empowering practice --; 7; Empowering families with community resources --; 8; Supporting theories that empower social worker-family transactions --; App. A; Cross-cultural counseling competencies : a conceptual framework --; App. B; The family power analysis ER -