TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ragg,D.Mark
TI  - Building family practice skills: methods, strategies, and tools 
SN  - 0534556868
AV  - HV697 .R24 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Belmont, CA
PB  - Thomson Brooks/Cole
KW  - Family social work
KW  - Family counseling
KW  - Families
KW  - Pscyhological aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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