The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice presents an unrivalled collection of essays that explain the strengths-based philosophy, demonstrate how it works, and provide clear and practical tools for its application.
This Edition includes chapters on subjects such as: how to shift one's frame of mind to practice from a strengths perspective; using slave narratives of strength and resistance as guides and inspiration in the fight to end poverty; understanding and promoting the resilience of families; how to solve problems using a strengths perspective; using a strengths approach in working with substance abuse problems; and a new look at the relationships between individual strengths and environmental resources.
In addition, many other chapters have been significantly updated with new concepts and ideas, new references, new case vignettes, and new inquiry. The study questions have been revised to reflect the changing knowledge in the field. This is possibly the most extensive and varied text in the rapidly expanding field of strengths literature.
Revised and updated to reflect the most recent developments in the field, the second edition of the Handbook of Motivational Counseling presents comprehensive coverage of the development and identification of motivational problems and the most effective treatment techniques. Equips clinicians with specific instructions for enhancing clients' motivation for change by targeting their maladaptive motivational patterns Provides step-by-step instructions in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the motivational assessments, along with details of how to implement the counselling procedures Updated to reflect the most current research and effective treatment techniques,... More info
This book offers a new and positive program for changing individual behaviour that helped K-12 students with their own problems and gave them self-esteem in the process. The Field Guide to Counseling Towards Solutions offers school counsellors, teachers, and administrators a complete program for changing the way that schools deal with a variety of issues. From an alternative school program that enlists the power of teacher mentors to the elementary program that involves the teacher, parent, and student in the counselling process, this book shows how to make change happen... More info
This book is a practical guide for counsellors and therapists who work in the field of interventions with men who have engaged in violence or sexual abuse towards partners and family members. The book argues that intervention practices must move beyond attempts to coerce, confront or educate a seemingly unwilling or unmotivated man. Instead, it offers *respectful intervention practices*, necessitating a parallel journey by the therapist, which: assist men in finding an *ethical* basis and the means to cease abusive behaviour and to develop new ways of relating, are informed... More info
