Solution-focused case management / Robert G. Blundo, Joel Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blundo, Robert G., author.

Simon, Joel K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social case work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Springer Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

" Blundo and Simon have successfully outlined how a solution -focused perspective can be a powerful tool for case managers.Their understanding and presentation is based upon practice scenarios that are real and applied...They clearly demonstrate the impact of 'thinking and language' and the importance of building a collaborative relationship with.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Share Solution-Focused Case Management; Chapter 1: Solution-Focused Case Management: Definitions and Meanings; Shifting Into New Ideas; Exercise: How Our Assumptions Determine How We View the Client; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Challenging Our Assumptions; Convergent Development of Seminal Concepts Inherent in Solution-Focused Practice; Coming From a "Not-Knowing Stance"; Building Meanings Together With Clients; This Is Your Brain on Conversations: Neuroscience Research; Clients Have Strengths: Use Them!

Solution-Focused AssumptionsIt Is About Abilities, Not Disabilities: Positive Psychology and Solution Focus; Practice Research; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Solution-Building in Case Management; Exercise: Differences Between Solution-Building and Problem-Solving Processes; The Problems With Problem Talk; Problem Focus; Solution Focus; Conversation as the Tool for Change; Learning to Listen; Exercise; Steps to Developing a Useful Conversation: An Overview; The National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery; Promoting Social Justice; Chapter 4: Solution Focus: Its History and Practice

A Brief History of Solution-Focused PracticeHow Clients and Case Managers Make Meaning Together: Wittgenstein and Language Games; What Happens After Clients and Case Managers Say "Hello": Forming Solution-Focused Collaborative Partnerships; Listening to Clients; An Introduction to Solution-Focused Skills and Processes; Making a Difference; First Meeting and Introduction; Not-Knowing Stance and Radical Acceptance; Set a Positive and Collaborative Tone; Initiate a Collaborative Look at the Challenges; An Introduction to the Solution-Focused Intervention Tools; Ask the Miracle Question

Ask for Details About the Client's GoalsAsk Scaling Questions; Explore Exceptions; Confidence Scales; Affirming the Client's Perceptions; Returning Focus of Conversation to the Goal; Noticing Opportunities of Possibilities; Amplifying Solution Building; The Session Break; Feedback; End of Session; Next Session; The Second Session and Beyond: E.A.R.S.; Exercise: Trying Out the Ideas; Beginning the Session; Follow-Up Choices; Critique Your Work; Chapter 5: Expanding on Collaborative Partnerships and Goal Formation; Cocreating Useful Conversations With Clients

Exercise: What Do You Do Well or What Are You Best at?Remember the Solution-Focused Values When Working With Clients; Social Constructionism; Every Client is a Customer for Something; Solution-Focused Assumptions; Past Experience With Services; Coconstructing Useful Goals With Clients; Best Hopes Question; Miracle Question; Scaling Questions; What Else?; Useful Goals: A Case Example; Discussion; Chapter 6: Solution-Focused Planning and Assessment; Solution-Focused Brief Practice Begins With the Details of Clients' Stated Goals; Discussion; Discussion; Exercise; Assessments as Interventions

Exercise

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8261-7186-9

OCLC:

932332936