Building Family Practice Skills: Methods, Strategies, and Tools

This book presents a transtheoretical response system framework for understanding family practice. This framework organizes theoretical information, assessment protocols, skills, and intervention strategies into a learning structure that helpsMoreThis book presents a transtheoretical response system framework for understanding family practice. This framework organizes theoretical information, assessment protocols, skills, and intervention strategies into a learning structure that helps students understand myriad client situations and the intervention strategies that would be most appropriate for those specific situations. Using this over-arching structure, and focusing on two systems of response--action systems (how family members behave and interrelate) and processing systems (how family members interpret/feel)--Ragg guides readers through the five parts of the book with the goal of building holistic family intervention skills. These five parts are comprised of: Family thinking, or knowledge of family systems- Assessing families- Building the Working Alliance- Change-Focused Intervention- and Working with Multi-Problem and High-Risk Families.