Building strengths and skills : a collaborative approach to working with clients / Jacqueline Corcoran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corcoran, Jacqueline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive therapy.

Counselor and client.

Mental health services.

Social service.

Solution-focused therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rather than identifying & 'fixing' perceived client weaknesses this book takes into account both individual resources & the areas where client skills can be bolstered, offering an eclectic practice approach that interweaves & operationalizes both strength-based & skills-based practice approaches.

Contents:

Solution-focused therapy

Motivational interviewing

Cognitive-behavioral therapy and intervention / Jacqueline Corcoran and Joseph Walsh

Integration of models

Phases of the strengths-and-skills-based model

The helping process of the strengths- and skills-based model

Learning the model : applications to a hospital setting

Treatment of adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders / Jacqueline Corcoran and David W. Springer

Depression / Jacqueline Corcoran and Jane Hanvey Phillips

Substance abuse / Holly Matto

The integration of solution-focused and behavioral marital therapies: application to an elderly couple with anxiety / Carrie Becker, Jacqueline Corcoran, and Kristin A. Garell

The strengths-and-skills-building model: application to women in violent relationships / Jacqueline Corcoran and Holly Bell

Enhancing motivation, strengths, and skills of parents in the child welfare system / Melinda Hohman, Christine Kleinpeter, and Hilda Loughran

Working with physical abuse and neglect / Jacqueline Corcoran, Audrey Jones, and Christine Ankerstjerne

Working with nonoffending parents of sexual abuse victims / Jacqueline Corcoran ... [et al.]

Measures for assessment and accountability in practice with families from a strengths perspective/ Theresa J. Early and W. Sean Newsome.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-803512-8

1-280-50215-0

1-60256-949-5

OCLC:

133162826