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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Context | |
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| The Foundations of Solution-Based Casework | |
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| Family-Centered Practice | |
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| Ecological Perspective | |
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| Competence-Centered Perspective | |
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| Family Life Cycle Theory | |
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| Postmodern Family Casework | |
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| Solution-Focused Family Therapy | |
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| Relapse Prevention Theory | |
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| Integrating Solution-Focused and Problem-Centered Models | |
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| Searching for Solutions in the Postmodern World | |
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| The Evolution of Casework Practice | |
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| Current Challenges to Casework | |
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| Rising Pressure from the Welfare to Work Movement | |
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| Emerging Responses to the Crisis in Casework | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Anchoring Casework in Everyday Life Events | |
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| "Sorting Things Out" Together | |
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| Partnership Changes the Meaning of Assessment | |
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| Keeping Ourselves Focused on Everyday Life | |
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| Routines Are at the Heart of Family Life | |
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| The Problem with Solutions | |
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| Overview of Family Development | |
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| Beginning Couple | |
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| Infant Preschool Family | |
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| School-Age Family | |
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| Adolescent Family | |
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| Launching Family | |
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| Postparental Family | |
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| Divorce and Remarriage | |
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| Keeping Your Finger on the Pulse of Family Life | |
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| Everyday Life and Patterns of Discouragement | |
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| Recognizing Patterns | |
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| Assessing Patterns in Everyday Life | |
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| Creating a Partnership to Find Solutions | |
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| Techniques for Building Partnerships | |
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| Recognizing Dominant Patterns in Everyday Life | |
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| Helping the Family Describe the Problem in Everyday Life Terms | |
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| Decision-Making in Assessment | |
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| Assessing Problem Detail | |
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| Relapse Prevention Requires Specific Skills | |
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| What Skills Should Be Targeted for Outcome? | |
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| Steps to Promoting Prevention Skills | |
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| Recognizing Patterns in High-Risk Situations | |
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| Learning the Details of High-Risk Patterns | |
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| Practicing Small Steps toward Change | |
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| Creating a Plan That Stays Focused on Solutions | |
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| Reinforcing Client Progress During Assessment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Building a Consensus for a Prevention Plan | |
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| Co-Constructing Measurable Goals with Your Clients | |
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| Searching for Solutions | |
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| Strategies That Work in Gaining Goal Consensus | |
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| Helping Clients Establish an Initial Safety Plan | |
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| Thinking Long-Term While Taking Short-Term Steps | |
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| What Goes into a Good Initial Safety Plan? | |
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| Considerations on Implementing a Safety Plan | |
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| Summary of the Role of Assessment in Case Planning | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Management Issues | |
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| The Process of Writing Objectives and Tasks | |
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| The Advantages of Being Specific and Measurable | |
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| When Case Plans Become Court Documents | |
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| Writing a Case Plan That Is Focused on Solutions | |
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| Uniting Around a Family Goal | |
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| Breaking Down the Goal into Family Objectives | |
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| Going from Family-Level Objectives to Individual-Level Objectives | |
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| The Primacy of Risk-Related Objectives | |
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| Breaking Down Objectives into Manageable Tasks | |
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| Writing Action Plans to Prevent Relapse | |
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| Solution-Based Case Management | |
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| The Challenge of Staying the Course | |
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| A Reminder about Targeting Outcome Skills | |
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| Making the Transition from Intake to Ongoing | |
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| Making the Transition from Casework to Treatment | |
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| Integrating Welfare to Work Objectives | |
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| Making the Most of Setbacks | |
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| Supervisor's Role in Case Management | |
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| Taking the Time to Supervise | |
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| Maintaining a Partnership | |
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| Maintaining a Focus on Specific Situations in Family Life | |
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| Summary | |
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| Treatment Providers' Role in Case Management | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gathering Basic Information about the Referral | |
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| What Happened? | |
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| What Is the Safety Plan? | |
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| How Has the Problem Been Defined with the Family? | |
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| Sample Dialogue at the Time of Referral | |
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| Offering Services to Mirror Family Developmental Needs | |
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| Overview of Steps to Prevention | |
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| Helping Clients Learn the Details of Their Patterns | |
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| Helping Clients Practice Small Steps of Change | |
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| Helping Clients Develop Relapse Prevention Plans | |
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| Summary of Solution-Based Interviewing Techniques | |
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| Strategies for Collaboration | |
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| Solution-Based Interviewing Techniques | |
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| Techniques That Build a Consensus about the Problem | |
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| Normalizing | |
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| Externalizing the Problem | |
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| Searching for Exceptions to the Pattern | |
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| Tracking the Problem Pattern | |
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| Techniques for Creating Interest in Signs of Change | |
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| Between Session Observation | |
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| Old versus New T-Charts | |
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| Scaling Questions | |
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| Time-Oriented Questions | |
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| Anchoring Change in the New Self | |
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| Expanding the Audience for Change | |
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| Reinforcing Progress through Credentialing | |
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| Celebrating Rites of Passage | |
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| Reference Reading Specifically for Technique | |
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| How Staff Experience Change | |
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| Frustration and Old Models | |
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| Advantages to Solution-Based Casework | |
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| Challenges Inherent in Changing Habits | |
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| Success Stories | |
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| Implementing Solution-Based Casework: Training Considerations | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |