The best techniques available for working in homes with high-risk families are inside this comprehensive manual developed by the highly successful Girls and Boys Town Family Preservation Services program. Building upon existing strengths, this approach helps families acquire skills to overcome generations of dysfunction and manage urgent problems. 
The book first discusses the foundations of in-home treatment, including cultural and family differences, community resources and networking, family assessment, building relationships, and detecting abuse and neglect. The intervention techniques of active listening, teaching, exploration, Effective Praise, metaphors, circular refocusing, criticism by suggestion, reframing, role playing, confrontation, mediation and contracting, and crisis intervention are described. 
Identifying, increasing, and building on family strengths will make intervention quicker, more effective, and longer lasting. The book discusses how to create individualized treatment plans and a process called "phases" that helps the practitioner stay focused on treatment issues. Examples, references, and an index are also included.

Building Skills in High-Risk Families: Strategies for the Home-Based Practitioner

Peterson, Jane L.

Kohrt, Paula E.

Shadoin, Linda

Authier, Karen J.

Parenting & Relationships

Boys Town Pr

Professionals who work with them know that families in crisis usually are dealing with far more than just parenting issues. Not only are parents having trouble with child behavior and discipline at home, but they may face problems such as substandard housing, loss of a job, a high-crime neighborhood, or a chronic health concern. Abuse, domestic violence, substance use, or mental illness may impact these families. Even accomplishing routine tasks such as keeping a clean and safe home, preparing nutritious meals, paying bills, and getting children to school may be a struggle for parents. To make such homes safe and healthy for children, parents may need to learn many new skills in order to solve their daily living problems. This revised and expanded edition of Skills for Families, Skills for Life can help family practitioners and other professionals incorporate the teaching of life skills into the assessment of and treatment planning for the families they work with. More than one hundred thirty basic to complex skills in thirteen caregiving areas are outlined in step-by-step detail. Skills areas have expanded to include Relationships, Mental Health Needs, Preventing Abuse, and Community Safety, and more skills have been added to chapters on Housing, Money Management, Informal and Formal Supports, and Education. An enclosed CD-ROM allows you to print skill sheets to use as checklists, make notes, and list resources as you counsel individual families. A new chapter also helps you locate public and private, local and national sources of assistance for families.

Skills for Families, Skills for Life: How to Help Parents and Caregivers Meet the Challenges of Everyday Living [with Cdrom] (Revised, Expanded)

Self-Help

Simpson, Amy

Shadoin, Linda M

Cook-Griffin, Joni

Relationships

Boys Town Press

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