Learning to change lives
Subtitle: the strategies and skills learning and development system
By: A. Ka Tat Tsang
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781442645813; 9781442614017
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Services sociaux; Étude et enseignement; Study and teaching; Human services personnel; Habiletés sociales; Personnel; Social skills
Description: "The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development (SSLD) system is an action-oriented model for enabling clients in social work, health, mental health, and human services settings to address their needs and life goals. In Learning to Change Lives, author A. Ka Tat Tsang introduces SSLD's powerful framework and practice, which has been developed based on three decades of experience in psychotherapy, counselling, education, training, consultation, and community service.

Learning to Change Lives provides detailed, step-by-step guidelines for SSLD intervention - starting with engagement with the client, assessment, translating problems into intervention plans, systematic learning and development of appropriate strategies and skills. Key practice procedures are described clearly and illustrated by case examples, specific instructions, and sample worksheets. Aimed at clinical practitioners, mental health professionals, social workers, and other human service professionals, this book can be used as a manual by practitioners and as a textbook for courses and training programs."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-319) and index.