This new text lpresents a wealth of ideas and methods for using collaborative, strengths-based practice by social workers or counselors. It looks at the conditions, factors, and practices that most often lead to success in therapeutic outcomes and translates them into common-sense practical methods. Through in-depth discussion, client examples, clinical vignettes, and exercises the author shows practitioners how to create a respectful attitude by becoming: culturally sensitive; collaborative; client infomred; competency based; and change oriented. It is based on decades of research that have been demonstrated to be influential in therapeutic outcomes.

Strengths-Based Engagement and Practice: Creating Effective Helping Relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bertolino, Bob

Psychology & Counseling

Pearson

The second edition of The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action, like the first, is written for professionals who work with children and youth in out of home placements, be they social services workers, child welfare or family court workers, educators, or mental health professionals in general. It explains several approaches that these professionals can use to positively impact the lives of young people in residential facilities. The book emphasizes the strengths and abilities of young people from the assessment phase of treatment through discharge, and helps readers to take into account the views and actions of youths in order to offer clients appropriate services. The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include new sections on principles of effective youth care work, personal philosophy, positive youth development, teamwork, staffings, and crisis management.

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Approach

Routledge

The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working With Parents, Children, and Adolescents

The Therapist’s Notebook for Families, Second Edition, provides 72 solution-oriented activities for an array of challenging problems faced by mental health professionals when working with clients. The Therapist's Notebook offers clear, practical, easy-to-use exercises to help therapists work effectively and creatively with parents, adolescents, children, and families. Its solution-focused perspective provides a foundation based on collaboration, the utilization of client strengths, and the creation of possibilities to facilitate present and future change. The book is arranged in five parts, with 15 fully revised and 23 brand-new exercises.

Mental Health

How can psychotherapists apply the wealth of recent research in Positive Psychology to their clinical work to help their clients change in positive directions? Bill O’Hanlon, who originated Solution-Oriented Therapy in the early 1980s, and Bob Bertolino, an experienced clinician, build the bridge between positive psychology and psychotherapy in this book that allows readers to focus on the mental, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual health of their clients. Following the highly readable and user-friendly approach of the Therapist Notebooks, this book contains 75 activities, exercises, and handouts throughout seven chapters that therapists can implement both in sessions and as activities outside the therapeutic milieu. Among the many attractive features included are: <ul>
<li>exercises that follow a standard format for ease of use and implementation</li> <li>research findings that underscore the importance of focusing on strengths and well-being</li> <li>overviews and suggestions for use that flank each exercise and contextualize them.</li>
</ul>
Readers appreciate the breadth of research and literature covered, the interactive exercises that both clients and clinicians can use, and devices presented to help translate research into practice, such as the P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. Framework and The Happiness Hypothesis. For mental health practitioners who are interested in building resilience and strength, both within their clients and within themselves, this book is indispensable.

The Therapist's Notebook on Positive Psychology

O'Hanlon, Bill

Thriving on the Front Lines: A Guide to Strengths-Based Youth Care Work

Youth and Family Services (YFS) are part of residential and group homes, schools, social service organizations, hospitals, and family court systems. YFS include prevention, education, positive youth development, foster care, child welfare, and treatment. As YFS has evolved advances in research have brought forth a host of promising new ideas that both complement and expand on the original underpinnings of strengths-based practice. Thriving on the Front Lines represents an articulation of these advancements. 
Thriving on the Front Lines explores the use of strengths-based practices with those who are "in the trenches," Youth Care Worker (YCWs). Commonly referred to as resident counselors, youth counselors, psychiatric technicians (psych techs), caseworkers, case managers, and house parents or managers, YCWs are on the "front lines," often providing services 24 hours a day. Thriving on the Front Lines is an up-to-date treatise on the pivotal role of YCWs and those who work day in and day out with youth to improve their well-being, relationships, and overall quality of life. Unique aspects of the strengths-based framework provided in Thriving on the Front Lines include: <ul>
<li>Strengths-based principles informed by five decades of research;</li> <li>Discussion of the importance of using real-time feedback to improve service outcomes and "how to" implement an outcome-orientation;</li> <li>Exploration of Positive Youth Development;</li> <li>Two chapters devoted entirely to strengths-based interventions;</li> <li>An in-depth discussion of how to improve effectiveness through deliberate practice; and,</li> <li>How to develop a strengths-based organizational climate.</li> </ul>

Thriving on the Front Lines

"Anger and tenderness—my selves. And now I can believe they breathe in me as angels and not as polarities. Anger and tenderness—the spider’s genius. To spin and weave in one moment anywhere. Even from a broken web." —Adrienne Rich Survivors of sexual abuse often feel at war with certain aspects of themselves or their feelings—anger, fear, sexuality, memory, even physical sensations—the web of self is broken. In solution-oriented therapy for sexual abuse and trauma, the therapist’s task is to help people learn to "spin and weave" at once—to reclaim parts of themselves that they have dissociated, disowned, or devalued as a result of their trauma. Even from a Broken Web gives therapists the tools to help clients spin these disparate fibers into a single resilient thread and weave a new fabric of self in which every aspect of one’s personality is recognized, valued, and cherished. Acclaim for Even from A Broken Web "Bill O’Hanlon and Bob Bertolino have done an excellent job in writing Even from a Broken Web. It is a remarkably lucid, poignant, insightful, and helpful guide for all those, therapists and clients alike, struggling to come to terms with sexual abuse and its sequelae. The authors convey so much—encouragement, excellent information, solutions, tenderness, even humor. I highly recommend this well-written book!" —Stephen Gilligan, author of The Courage to Love

Even from a Broken Web: Brief, Respectful Solution-Oriented Therapy for Sexual Abuse and Trauma

O'Hanlon, William Hudson

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Solution-oriented therapy focuses on eliciting, evoking, and highlighting the strengths of clients, as opposed to their pathology and deficits. Here, Robert Bertolino explains his great success in applying this model to the treatment of adolescents. He describes how to work with these young clients to help empower them to change their life scripts.

Therapy with Troubled Teenagers: Rewriting Young Lives in Progress

wiley

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach

Explore how these therapeutic practices can enhance your work as a residential youth care worker!The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency--Based Approach will help youth care workers administer psychotropic medications, understand psychiatric labels, handle crisis and staffing, and give accurate assessments. Emphasizing ideas that focus on the strengths and abilities of young people from the assessment phase of treatment through discharge, this guidebook will help you take the views and actions of youths into consideration from a change-oriented perspective in order to offer your clients appropriate services. The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action serves to fill in the gap between therapists and residential youth care workers (RYCWs) by emphasizing ideas that therapists have been using for years. This resourceful book takes a relatively new direction in the field by focusing on competency-based as opposed to problem-focused methods. Many of the major concerns that you face as a youth care worker are addressed with easy-to-learn-and-use therapeutic ideas, suggestions, new approaches, and techniques that are demonstrated through case illustrations. Some of these competency-based ideas include: 
<ul>
<li>focusing on what is changeable for youths as opposed to what is not </li>
<li>exploring how you can use language to convey respect and facilitate change by focusing on a youth’s possibilities instead of his or her past behavior </li>
<li>using solution talk instead of problem talk, such as saying a youth is very energetic at times instead of hyperactive </li>
<li>respecting young people, their viewpoints, and experiences to create a context and climate that is conducive to change </li>
<li>exploring “future roads” by helping young people create compelling futures, dissolve barriers, and take action toward those preferred futures </li>
<li>managing crisis intervention while simultaneously allowing youths to keep their pride </li>
<li>helping young people realize their accountability within the roles of both psychotropic medications and psychiatric labels The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action explains several approaches that you can use to positively impact the lives of the young people in your residential facility. Complete with handouts and diagrams such as a post-crisis debriefing form, a level promotion petition form, and a weekly success chart that can be reproduced and used in various residential programs, The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action will help you create a positive atmosphere for youths and prepare them for a successful future. </li>
</ul>

Politics & Social Sciences

Thompson, Kevin

Bertolino, Robert

Social Sciences

The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents

Help your clients facilitate positive changes with these innovative therapeutic exercises!The Therapist's Notebook for Families empowers mental health professionals with clear, practical, easy-to-use therapeutic exercises for working with parents, adolescents, children, and families. These exercises will improve your effectiveness with clients, helping them to explore possibilities, find solutions, and create change in spite of difficult problems. The current climate in the mental health field calls for professionals to be both effective and accountable. This book will help you to work more effectively and more respectfully with clients with an array of exercises designed to facilitate change processes. These activities will help you and your clients in: 
<ul>
<li> establishing goals and projected outcomes </li>
<li> changing unhealthy views </li>
<li> improving on their current style of action/interaction </li>
<li> identifying and amplifying change </li>
<li> managing setbacks </li>
<li> ending therapy </li>
</ul> This volume include suggestions for the best ways to use the exercises as well as descriptions of the purpose of each activity. The Therapist's Notebook for Families will prove invaluable in your work with families!

Schultheis, Gary

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Strengths-Based Engagement and Practice: Creating Effective Helping Relationships

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Approach

The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working With Parents, Children, and Adolescents

The Therapist's Notebook on Positive Psychology

Thriving on the Front Lines

Even from a Broken Web: Brief, Respectful Solution-Oriented Therapy for Sexual Abuse and Trauma

Therapy with Troubled Teenagers: Rewriting Young Lives in Progress

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach

The Therapist's Notebook for Families: Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working with Parents, Children, and Adolescents