Working with involuntary clients : a guide to practice /
By: Trotter, Chris [author.].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, 2015Edition: Third edition.Description: ix, 243 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780415715645; 9780415715645:; 0415715644; 9780415715652; 0415715652.Subject(s): Social service | Involuntary treatment | Counseling -- methods | Mandatory Programs | Evidence-Based Practice -- methods | Social Work -- methodsDDC classification: 361.06Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
Who are involuntary clients? -- The dual role of workers with involuntary clients -- Direct practice -- Sources of knowledge in work with involuntary clients -- Evidence-based practice -- The purpose of this book -- The structure of the book -- What works and what doesn't? -- Approaches that work -- Cognitive behavioural strategies -- Approaches that sometimes work -- Client factors -- Approaches that don't work -- An evidence-based practice model -- Research evidence, theory and other practice models -- Summary -- Role clarification -- Dual role : social control and helping -- What is negotiable and what is not? -- Confidentiality -- Case manager, case planner or problem-solver? -- The client's expectations -- Helping the client to understand the nature of the professional relationship -- Organisational expectations -- Theoretical approaches to the work -- Summary -- Promoting pro-social outcomes -- Identify pro-social comments and behaviours -- Reward pro-social comments and behaviours -- Modelling pro-social behaviours -- Challenging undesirable behaviours -- Advantages of the pro-social approach -- Criticisms of the pro-social approach -- Summary -- Problem-solving -- Steps in the problem-solving process -- Problem-solving, risk assessment and case planning -- Criticisms of a problem-solving approach -- Summary -- The worker-client relationship -- Empathy -- Touching -- Optimism -- Humour -- Self-disclosure -- Worker safety and client violence -- Summary -- Working with families -- When is it appropriate to work with family groups? -- Collaborative family work -- A home-based model -- The collaborative family counselling process -- Pro-social modelling -- The worker-client relationship -- Summary -- Evaluation -- Single case study evaluation -- Case analysis -- Conclusion.
'Working with Involuntary Clients' aims to be a practical guide to working with both clients and their families. The book offers a new problem-solving model which places emphasis on clarifying roles, promoting pro-social values, and more.