Corcoran (social work, Virginia Commonwealth U.) provides social service and mental health professionals with practice models for helping clients identify resources to help themselves as well as areas where their skills can be increased. Editor(s): Corcoran, Jacqueline. Num Pages: 416 pages, numerous text boxes. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 703. . 2004. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Building Strengths and Skills: A Collaborative Approach to Working with Clients
Publisher: OUP USA
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195154304
ISBN 13: 9780195154306
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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This is a much-needed practice book that demonstrates how helping professionals can emphasize their clients' resilience, strength, and capacities, rather than focusing on pathology or deficits. It offers an integrative practice model for both assessment and intervention that interweaves strengths-based (specifically solution-focused therapy and motivational interviewing) and skills-building (cognitive-behavioral) approaches. In the strengths-and-skills-based model, helping professionals assume that clients possess the necessary capacities to solve their own problems, transforming the therapeutic relationship into a collaboration focused on bolstering motivation and resources for change. When these resources are exhausted or when deficits become a substantial barrier, then practitioner and client work to develop an individualized skills-building plan. A wide range of examples, written by Jacqueline Corcoran with experts from different fields of practice, clearly demonstrate how the model can be applied to individuals and families struggling with behavior problems, depression, substance abuse, anxiety, violence, and abuse, so that both strengths and skills maximize the client's success. This innovative, dynamic resource is a must have for practitioners across the helping, social service, and mental health professions.

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Jacqueline Corcoran is at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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