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Building Strengths and Skills A Collaborative Approach to Working with Clients

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ISBN-10: 0195154304

ISBN-13: 9780195154306

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jacqueline Corcoran

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Rather than identifying and fixing preceived client weaknesses, this book takes into account both individual resources and the areas where client skills can be bolstered, offering an eclectic practice approach that interweaves and operationalizes both strengths-based practices approaches. In teh strengths and skills based model, which intergrates solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, anf cognitive behavioural therapy, clients are assumed to have the necessarycapacities to solve their own problems, and a major focus of treatment is bolstering motivation and resources. When these resources are exhausted or when deficits are identified as a substantial barrier to change then…    
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Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/2/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Contributors
Introduction of the Strengths-and-Skills-Building Model
Solution-Focused Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Cognitive-Behavioral Theory and Intervention
Integration of Models
Phases of the Strengths-and-Skills-Building Model
Learning the Model: Applications to a Hospital Setting
Disorders
Treatment of Adolescents With Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Depression
Substance Abuse
The Integration of Solution-Focused and Behavioral Marital Therapies: Application to an Elderly Couple With Anxiety
Family Violence
The Strengths-and-Skills-Building Model: Application to Women in Violent Relationships
Enhancing Motivation, Strengths, and Skills of Parents in the Child Welfare System
Working With Physical Abuse and Neglect
Working With Nonoffending Parents of Sexual Abuse Victims
Measurement
Measures for Assessment and Accountability in Practice With Families From a Strengths Perspective
Index