Building strengths and skills : a collaborative approach to working with clients / Jacqueline Corcoran.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Solution-focused therapy -- Motivational interviewing -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy and intervention / Jacqueline Corcoran and Joseph Walsh -- Integration of models -- Phases of the strengths-and-skills-based model -- The helping process of the strengths- and skills-based model -- Learning the model : applications to a hospital setting -- Treatment of adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders / Jacqueline Corcoran and David W. Springer -- Depression / Jacqueline Corcoran and Jane Hanvey Phillips -- Substance abuse / Holly Matto -- The integration of solution-focused and behavioral marital therapies: application to an elderly couple with anxiety / Carrie Becker, Jacqueline Corcoran, and Kristin A. Garell -- The strengths-and-skills-building model: application to women in violent relationships / Jacqueline Corcoran and Holly Bell -- Enhancing motivation, strengths, and skills of parents in the child welfare system / Melinda Hohman, Christine Kleinpeter, and Hilda Loughran -- Working with physical abuse and neglect / Jacqueline Corcoran, Audrey Jones, and Christine Ankerstjerne -- Working with nonoffending parents of sexual abuse victims / Jacqueline Corcoran ... [et al.] -- Measures for assessment and accountability in practice with families from a strengths perspective/ Theresa J. Early and W. Sean Newsome.

"Rather than identifying and "fixing" perceived client weaknesses, this book takes into account both individual resources and the areas where client skills can be bolstered, offering an eclectic practice approach that interweaves and operationalizes both strengths-based and skills-based practice approaches. In the strengths- and skills-based model, which integrates solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and cognitive-behavioral therapy, clients are assumed to have the necessary capacities to solve their own problems, and a major focus of treatment is bolstering motivation and resources. When these resources are exhausted or when deficits are identified as a substantial barrier to change, then skill-building is introduced. However, skills are taught in a collaborative fashion and, as much as possible, are made relevant to the client's unique circumstance. Chapters apply this approach to issues such as adolescent conduct problems, depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. This innovative, dynamic resource offers an assessment and intervention model for practitioners in the helping, social service, and mental health professions. In addition, the helping process can be applied in any number of roles, including that of case manager, probation officer, caseworker, medical social service personnel, counselor, crisis worker, and therapist."--Publisher description.

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