Resilience Enhancement in Social Work Practice Anti-Oppressive Social Work Skills and Techniques

Foreword        Harriet L. Cohen, PhD, LCSW

Chapter 1        Introducing the Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley 

Chapter 2        The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: Articulating Anti-Oppressive Practice

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley

Chapter 3        Exploring the Role of Cultural Diversity in Resilient Social Functioning: Theory and Skills

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley

Chapter 5        The Resilience-Enhancing Stress Model: A Practice Overview and Guide

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley

Chapter 6        Transitioning From Hospital to Home: Resilience-Enhancing Skills for Health Care Social Workers

Roberta Greene and Lizzi Cummings

Chapter 7        Envisioning Functions and Skills for Resilience-Enhancing Nursing Home Social Workers

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley

Chapter 8        Resilience-Enhancing Skills for Developmental Transitions: Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Roberta Greene and Jackie Bartell 

Chapter 9        Transmitting Resilience Through Family Communication and Organization

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley

Chapter 10      Maintaining Resilience Following Loss or Illness

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley

Chapter 11      Facilitating Community Development Following Disruption

Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, and Connie Corley 

Chapter 12      Interactional Resilience for Aging Out of Care: A South African Example

Adrian van Breda 

Epilogue          Connie Corley 

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 and geriatrics as a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She cocreated the doctoral concentration in creative longevity and wisdom in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University and is professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. A Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America and the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, she has engaged in multiple programs as a mentor and leader in curriculum development and cofounded and directed a lifelong learning program in Los Angeles for more than 10 years. The author of numerous peer-reviewed publications and coeditor of Resilience: Navigating Challenges of Modern Life (with Marie Sonnet, PhD; Fielding University Press, 2019), her recent work focuses on creativity in later life (emerging from a national study of resilience in Holocaust survivors led by Roberta Greene, PhD) and intergenerational/intercultural mutual mentoring. She created the podcast LOVE GOES VIRAL to offer support during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (www.lovegoesviral.org) and was cohost and producer of EXPERIENCE TALKS on Pacifica station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles for more than a decade.