Contemporary Clinical Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. The World Outside: Its Impact on the Treatment Setting

   • Ellen Ruderman

   Pages 1-11

3. The Erosion of the Sociopolitical Holding Environment and the Collapse of the Potential Space for Creative Repair

   • Jeffrey Applegate

   Pages 13-18

4. Grief and Loss in an Age of Global Trauma: Protest and Despair Versus Attachment and Reorganization

   • Judith Kay Nelson

   Pages 19-27

5. Integrating the Internal and External Worlds of Clinical Social Work: A Philosophical and Political Search

   • Rosalyn Benitez-Bloch

   Pages 29-40

6. Virtual Intimacy in the Therapeutic Space: Help or Hindrance?

   • Carol Tosone

   Pages 41-49

7. What Happens to Confidentiality When the Government Enters the Treatment Room via the PATRIOT Act, HIPAA, and Managed Care?

   • Carole Bender

   Pages 51-60

8. A Perfect Storm: The Influence of Outside Forces on Social Work Education

   • Barbara Berger

   Pages 61-72

9. Silence in the Clinical Hour: A Time to Speak

   • Billie Lee Violette

   Pages 73-83

10. Real Experiences Revisited: The Significance of Attachment, Separation, and Loss in Adult Psychotherapy

    • Pat Sable

    Pages 85-98

11. Saving the World One Patient at a Time: Psychoanalysis and Social Critique

    • Jennifer Tolleson

    Pages 99-115

12. Back Matter

    Pages 117-120

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Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact on the clinical process. State-of-the-art psychodynamic theories will be applied to the understanding of how war, terrorism, politics, government regulations, and other environmental problems influence interactions between clinicians and their patients.

• Adult psychotherapy
• Attachment in clinical social work
• Clinical Social Work
• Confidentiality in social work practice
• Global trauma
• Globalization
• Government in the treatment room
• PTSD
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Social work education
• Socio-political holding environment
• Therapeutic process
• Treating grief

• Encino, USA

  Ellen Ruderman

• School of Social Work, New York University, New York, USA

  Carol Tosone

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