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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 | |