Building Strengths and Skills: A Collaborative Approach to Working with Clients - Hardcover

 
9780195154306: Building Strengths and Skills: A Collaborative Approach to Working with Clients
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195154304 ISBN 13: 9780195154306
Publisher: OUP USA, 2004

Synopsis

A practical guide to working with clients to create their own solutions and draw on their pre-existing skills and strengths. This text bridges the gap between research on strengths, resilience, and positive psychology and social work practice and related fields.

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Review


"The greatest strength of Corcoran's work is its potential to help those who are in the position of having a brief period of time to intervene with clients who may not have voluntarily sought assistance and may even be opposed to it." PsycCRITIQUES


"An important piece of work that positively breaks from the norm." -Edward C. Chang, University of Michigan


"If you have been waiting for a book that actually brings positive psychology to life, this is it." -C.R. Snyder, coeditor, Handbook of Positive Psychology


"A readable and practical guide, complete with interview transcripts." -Wallace Gingerich, Case Western Reserve University


Synopsis

Corcoran (social work, Virginia Commonwealth U.) provides social service and mental health professionals with practice models for helping clients identify resources to help themselves as well as areas where their skills can be increased. The approach assumes that clients possess the necessary capacities to solve their own problems, transforming the

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195154304
ISBN 13 
9780195154306
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
416
Editor
Corcoran Jacqueline