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

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

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Book 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.

Building Skills in High-Risk Families: Strategies for the Home-Based Practitioner,Jane L. Peterson,Paula E. Kohrt,Linda Shadoin,Karen J. Authier,Boys Town Press,0938510738,Child Care/Parenting,Family & Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,General

Book Contents:

1. Bumblebees Can't Fly : Seven Simple Strategies for Making the Impossible Possible
2. But Nobody Told Me I'd Ever Have to Leave Home: From Toddlers to Teens: How Parents Can Raise Children to Become Capable Adults
3. Butterflies in the Wind : The Truth about Latin American Adoptions
4. Changing Families: A Guide for Kids and Grown-Ups
5. Child Custody Building Agreements That (Building a Parenting Agreement That Works)
6. Coping with Chemotherapy (Revised Edition)
7. Creative Living Skills, Student Edition
8. Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us
9. Debating Children's Lives : Current Controversies on Children and Adolescents
10. Depression after Childbirth : How to Recognise, Treat, and Prevent Postnatal Depression

Book Contents

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