Building family practice skills : methods, strategies, and tools /
Ragg, D. Mark.
Building family practice skills : methods, strategies, and tools / D. Mark Ragg. - Belmont, CA : Thomson Brooks/Cole, c2006. - xix, 508 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-495) and index.
Thinking family : theories and frameworks -- Four parenting functions -- Cultural influences on family functions -- Exploration and data collection with families -- Structuring the family exploration -- Moving from assessment to treatment -- Preliminary engagement with family members -- Interactive engagement with family members -- Positioning families for change -- Direct change strategies for influencing family action systems -- Direct change strategies for influencing family processing systems -- Influencing family members through indirect strategies of change -- Challenges and promise -- Multiagency work -- Support-focused intervention.
This book presents a transtheoretical 'response system framework' for understanding family practice. This framework organizes theoretical information, assessment protocols, skills, and intervention strategies into a learning structure that helps students understand myriad client situations and the intervention strategies that would be most appropriate for those specific situations. Using this over-arching structure, and focusing on two systems of response--action systems (how family members behave and interrelate) and processing systems (how family members interpret/feel) - [the author] guides readers through the five parts of the book with the goal of building holistic family intervention skills.
0534556868
2005925901
Family social work.
Family counseling.
Families--Pscyhological aspects.
HV697 / .R24 2006
Building family practice skills : methods, strategies, and tools / D. Mark Ragg. - Belmont, CA : Thomson Brooks/Cole, c2006. - xix, 508 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-495) and index.
Thinking family : theories and frameworks -- Four parenting functions -- Cultural influences on family functions -- Exploration and data collection with families -- Structuring the family exploration -- Moving from assessment to treatment -- Preliminary engagement with family members -- Interactive engagement with family members -- Positioning families for change -- Direct change strategies for influencing family action systems -- Direct change strategies for influencing family processing systems -- Influencing family members through indirect strategies of change -- Challenges and promise -- Multiagency work -- Support-focused intervention.
This book presents a transtheoretical 'response system framework' for understanding family practice. This framework organizes theoretical information, assessment protocols, skills, and intervention strategies into a learning structure that helps students understand myriad client situations and the intervention strategies that would be most appropriate for those specific situations. Using this over-arching structure, and focusing on two systems of response--action systems (how family members behave and interrelate) and processing systems (how family members interpret/feel) - [the author] guides readers through the five parts of the book with the goal of building holistic family intervention skills.
0534556868
2005925901
Family social work.
Family counseling.
Families--Pscyhological aspects.
HV697 / .R24 2006