Therapeutic intervention with poor, unorganized families : from distress to hope / Shlomo A. Sharlin, Michal Shamai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharlin, Sh.

Contributor:

Shamai, Michal, 1949-

Series:

Haworth marriage and the family

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family social work.

Social work with people with social disabilities.

Dysfunctional families--Services for.

Dysfunctional families.

Poor--Services for.

Poor.

Physical Description:

xx, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Clinical Practice Press, [2000]

Summary:

Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope offers you integrated theory, practice, and research to provide you with the tools to be more effective when dealing with families in crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families explores the decline of families into extreme distress and helps you to determine the best intervention for each family because no one single method can be prescribed for all families and situations. This book offers you new techniques to help make a difference by using home-based interventions such as having the entire family and therapist meet in the home on a weekly basis.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Distress: A Social Problem of Families in Extreme Distress and Multiproblem Families 3

Historical Review: From Multiproblem Families to Families in Extreme Distress (FED) 4

Chapter 2. The Hope: Clinical Interventions with Families in Extreme Distress 17

Historical Review: Intervention with Multiple-Problem Families 18

Approaches, Techniques, and Principles of Intervention with FED 29

Part II From Theory to Practice

An Overview of the Model

Chapter 3. The Fear of Working with FED: Overcoming the Coalition of Despair 37

The Coalition of Despair 38

Overcoming the Coalition of Despair 46

Developing a Model for Working with FED 51

Part III Assessment of Fed

Chapter 4. Descriptive Scale of Families in Extreme Distress 57

From FED Description to FED Scale: A Clinical Assessment 58

The Families in Extreme Distress Scale 61

Part IV Intervention Techniques

Chapter 5. Developing a Toolbox and Creating the Therapeutic Context 69

Preparatory and Goal-Oriented Techniques 72

Preparatory Techniques 79

Chapter 6. Expanding the Toolbox: Using Goal-Oriented Techniques 91

Empowering Techniques 91

Enhancing Communication Skills 102

Using the Therapeutic Team 107

Chapter 7. Beyond the Therapy Room 111

Multiprofessional Teamwork 113

Stages in Multiprofessional Team Development 116

Multiprofessional Teamwork Intervention in the Case of FED 119

Chapter 8. The L. Family: A Case Study 125

The L.s As a Couple and As Parents 125

The L. Family Children 128

Therapy Sessions 130

Summary of the Therapeutic Intervention 152

Chapter 9. Supervision in the Context of Therapy with Families in Extreme Distress 155

Coping with the Coalition of Despair Before and During the Therapeutic Process 157

Coping with the Anger of FED Toward Society That Is Directed at the Therapist or Social Worker As Representatives of Society 160

Coping with a Family's Overwhelmed Condition 162

Developing a Systematic View Rather Than an Individual Perspective Focused on the Wife/Mother 165

Relating to the Entire Team 167

Techniques in Supervision 167

Part V The Research Project

Process and Evaluation

Chapter 10. Developing a Project for Working with Families in Extreme Distress 175

The Pilot FED Project 177

The FED Project 180

Method and Procedure 183

Chapter 11. Pre- and Postproject Measurements and Evaluation 187

The Study Population 188

The Quantitative Analysis 192

The Subjective Evaluation 205

Part VI Future Perspectives

Chapter 12. Considerations and Attempts for Hope 225

Intervention 228

Perspective of Intervention 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.

ISBN:

0789002825

0789002833

OCLC:

41445822