Social work practioners share their fascinating real-life experiences in this thoroughly updated new edition, filled with interesting and relevant case studies. The Second Edition of LeCroy's popular text includes an array of interesting case study material that enlighten students about the day-to-day practice of social work, and includes material that is too often ignored in social work textbooks. Students will see what these professionals actually face every day, as they learn to integrate theory and practice by studying how practitioners have applied general social work principles to particular case situations in the real world. Craig Winston LeCroy, co-author of Brooks/Cole-Wadsworth's groundbreaking book with Jose B. Ashford and Kathy L. Lortie, Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective, has delivered another solid hit with this impressive book that encourages a vicarious journey into social work practice.