Strategies for Work With Involuntary Clients

by Rooney, Ronald H.

• ISBN13: 9780231133197
• ISBN10: 0231133197
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-26
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Involuntary clients are required to see a professional, such as juveniles on probation, or are pressured to seek help, such as alcoholics threatened with the desertion of a spouse. For close to two decades, Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clientshas led in its honest analysis of the involuntary transaction, suggesting the kind of effective legal and ethical intervention that can lead to more cooperative encounters, successful contracts, and less burnout on both sides of the treatment relationship. For this second edition, Ronald H. Rooney has invited experts to address recent theories and provide new information on the best practices for specific populations and settings. He also adds practical examples and questions to each chapter to better facilitate the involvement of students and readers, plus a section on motivational interviewing.

Author Biography

Ronaid H. Rooney is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of Minnersota, and author of Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
A Foundation for Work with Involuntary Clients
Introduction to Involuntary Practice	p. 3
Legal and Ethical Foundations for Work with Involuntary Clients	p. 19
Effectiveness with Involuntary Clients	p. 45
Influencitng Behaviors and Attitudes	p. 65
Assessing Initial Contacts in Involuntary Transactions	p. 90
Practice Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients
Initial Phase Work with Individual Involuntary Clients	p. 117
Task-Centered Intervention with Involuntary Clients	p. 167
Work with Involuntary Families	p. 218
Work with Involuntary Groups	p. 244
Practice Applications with Involuntary Problems and Settings
Work with Substance Abusers	p. 276
Bringing Up What They DonÆt Want to Talk About: Use of Brief Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents Regarding Health-Related Behaviors in Opportunistic and Other Settings	p. 293
Work with Men in Domestic Abuse Treatment	p. 306
Involuntary Clients in Public Schools: Solution-Focused Interventions	p. 322
Work with Involuntary Clients in Child Welfare Settings	p. 334
Oppression and Involuntary Status	p. 349
Work with Involuntary Clients in Corrections	p. 387
Involuntary Clients and Work in the Era of Welfare Reform	p. 402
Applying the Involuntary Perspective to Supervision	p. 424
The Nonvoluntary Practitioner and the System	p. 449
Appendix	p. 461
References	p. 465
About the Editor	p. 507
Contributors	p. 509
Index	p. 513
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