Building family practice skills
Subtitle: methods, strategies, and tools
By: D. Mark Ragg.
Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: Family social work; Family counseling; Families -- Pscyhological aspects
Description: This book presents a transtheoretical 'response system framework' for understanding family practice. This framework organizes theoretical information, assessment protocols, skills, and intervention strategies into a learning structure that helps students understand myriad client situations and the intervention strategies that would be most appropriate for those specific situations. Using this over-arching structure, and focusing on two systems of response--action systems (how family members behave and interrelate) and processing systems (how family members interpret/feel) - [the author] guides readers through the five parts of the book with the goal of building holistic family intervention skills.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-495) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking family : theories and frameworks; title: Four parenting functions; title: Cultural influences on family functions; title: Exploration and data collection with families; title: Structuring the family exploration; title: Moving from assessment to treatment; title: Preliminary engagement with family members; title: Interactive engagement with family members; title: Positioning families for change; title: Direct change strategies for influencing family action systems; title: Direct change strategies for influencing family processing systems; title: Influencing family members through indirect strategies of change; title: Challenges and promise; title: Multiagency work; title: Support-focused intervention.