Task Strategies Empirical Approach to Clinical S/W: An Empirical Approach to Clinical Social Work - Hardcover

Reid, William J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231075502 ISBN 13: 9780231075503

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1992

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-- Katherine M. Wood, Rutgers University

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Review

This book should be heavily used by every practicing clinical social worker.

Synopsis

This study focuses on task-centered intervention strategies in order to attain a variety of goals that regularly arise in short-term clinical work with both individuals and families. These strategies involve problem-solving actions or tasks carried out by clients in the treatment session, at home or in the community. A task consists of acting in a planned way to solve a problem, rather than talking about the problem as a means to develop insight or promote personal growth. The author emphasizes a collaborative effort in which practitioners help clients to design, plan, practice and implement tasks and learn to resolve difficulties through their own problem-solving actions. The text examines intervention strategies suitable for common problems encountered by clinical social workers, difficulties of families and children, anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, inadequate resources and psychosocial problem-solving actions, especially outside the treatment session. These are specific strategies that all practitioners, regardless of their theoretical persuasion, can use to treat problems.

The book also provides a synthesis of recent developments in behavioural, cognitive and family therapies within the framework of the task-centred approach.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231075502
• ISBN 13: 9780231075503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 329