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

Building Skills in High-Risk Families: Strategies for the Home-Based Practitioner image
ISBN-10:

0938510738

ISBN-13:

9780938510734

Released: Jan 01, 1996
Publisher: Boys Town Pr
Format: Paperback, 265 pages
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Description:

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.












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