This article describes three predictable and sequential phases that represent a normal cycle of emotional responses by victims of sexual assualt. A series of interventions was developed to help patients work through each phase as smoothly as possible. (Author)

Social work clinicians who continue to practice during pregnancy should be aware that their condition will affect their clients' responses as well as their own, and that the pregnancy may even present unique treatment opportunities. (Author)

Suggests that current outmoded and inadequate conceptions of the therapeutic process are a major obstacle to the advancement of clinical social work practice. Presents an integrative ecosystem model that expresses the distinctive social work concern with person, situation, and helping relationship, in their reciprocal psychodynamic and…