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Summary
Summary
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 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.'
Table of Contents
| Section 1 Thinking Family: An Introduction |
| 1 Thinking Family: The ories and Frameworks |
| 2 Thinking Family: Parental Functions |
| 3 Cultural Influences on Family Functions |
| Section 2 Assessing Families: An Introduction |
| 4 Exploration and Data Collection with Families |
| 5 Structuring the Family Exploration |
| 6 Moving from Assessment to Treatment |
| Section 3 Building the Working Alliance: An Introduction |
| 7 Preliminary Engagement with Family Members |
| 8 Interactive Engagement with Family Members |
| 9 Positioning Families for Change |
| Section 4 Change-Focused Intervention: An Introduction |
| 10 Direct Change Strategies for Influencing Family Action Systems |
| 11 Direct Change Strategies for Influencing Family Processing Systems |
| 12 Influencing Family Members through Indirect Strategies of Change |
| Section 5 Working With Hard to Serve Families |
| 13 Working with Multi-Problem and High-Risk Families: Challenges and Promise |
| 14 Multi-Agency Work with Multi-Problem and High-Risk Families |
| 15 Support-Focused Intervention with High-Risk and Multi-Problem Families |
