Building Strengths and Skills A Collaborative Approach to Working with Clients

by Corcoran, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780195154306
• ISBN10: 0195154304
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 interweavesstrengths-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, transformingthe 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 ofexamples, 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 skillsmaximize the client's success. This innovative, dynamic resource is a must have for practitioners across the helping, social service, and mental health professions.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xiii
I Introduction of the Strengths-and-Skills-Building Model
1 Solution-Focused Therapy	5	(14)
2 Motivational Interviewing	19	(17)
3 Cognitive-Behavioral Theory and Intervention	36	(22)
JACQUELINE CORCORAN AND JOSEPH WALSH
4 Integration of Models	58	(13)
5 Phases of the Strengths-and-Skills-Building Model	71	(36)
6 Learning the Model: Applications to a Hospital Setting	107	(24)
II Disorders
7 Treatment of Adolescents With Disruptive Behavior Disorders	131	(32)
JACQUELINE CORCORAN AND DAVID W. SPRINGER
8 Depression	163	(26)
JACQUELINE CORCORAN AND JANE HANVEY PHILLIPS
9 Substance Abuse	189	(19)
HOLLY C. MATTO
10 The Integration of Solution-Focused and Behavioral Marital Therapies: Application to an Elderly Couple With Anxiety	208	(19)
CARRIE BECKER, JACQUELINE CORCORAN, AND KRISTIN A. GARELL
III Family Violence
11 The Strengths-and-Skills-Building Model: Application to Women in Violent Relationships	227	(41)
JACQUELINE CORCORAN AND HOLLY BELL
12 Enhancing Motivation, Strengths, and Skills of Parents in the Child Welfare System	268	(25)
MELINDA HOHMAN, CHRISTINE KLEINPETER, AND HILDA LOUGHRAN
13 Working With Physical Abuse and Neglect	293	(34)
JACQUELINE CORCORAN, AUDREY JONES, AND CHRISTINE ANKERSTJERNE
14 Working With Nonoffending Parents of Sexual Abuse Victims	327	(32)
JACQUELINE CORCORAN. DIANNA HART, KRISTIN A. GARELL, AND JANICE BERRY-EDWARDS
IV Measurement
15 Measures for Assessment and Accountability in Practice With Families From a Strengths Perspective	359	(36)
THERESA J. EARLY AND W. SEAN NEWSOME
Index	395