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Publication Date:
01 Mar 2008
Publisher:
Russell House Publishing Ltd
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Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Description
In child protection, family support, domestic violence, youth justice...many practitioners and managers struggle to engage clients who resist involvement with services that are needed or offered, often with wearying and dispiriting effect on everyone. This book offers systematic, evidence-based approaches to work with children and young people, men and women, fathers and mothers in all relevant circumstances. They are 'no-nonsense' approaches that will fit with practice wisdom and practice realities of work with clients who: actively seek help; only accept services when legally mandated or institutionalized; show varying degrees of motivation at different times, towards different services, or within their family or group.It addresses: making and maintaining working relationships with clients; concepts of consent and coercion; frameworks for understanding and working with motivation, resistance and change; links with risk assessment, including risks to staff; innovative ways of enhancing their clients' motivation and helping them to change; helping anyone in training to enter the workplace with a sense that they can succeed, not only when assistance is sought, but also when others choose not to engage; rekindling confidence and enthusiasm amongst those who have already experienced trying to address entrenched resistance without adequate help or guidance.
Contents
Preface. Introduction.Understanding the Current ContextInvoluntary clients: a review of the literatureChris TrotterThe changing landscape of social care: implications for working with involuntary clientsTrevor Spratt, Queen's University BelfastEngaging with children: the political dimensionNick Turnbull, University of Manchester and Toby Fattore, University of SydneyInformed consent: options and challengesEileen GambrillIntroducing Broad FrameworksA closer look at client engagement: understanding and assessing engagement from the perspectives of workers and clients in non-voluntary child protection service casesDiane YatchememoffAssessment and decision-making in child protection: relationship-based considerationsMichelle Lefevre, University of SussexBuilding relationships with involuntary clients in child protection: lessons from successful practiceKen Barter, Memorial University of NewfoundlandWorking with involuntary clients in child protection practice: lessons from successful practiceAndrew Turnell, Resolutions Consultancy, Perth, Australia, Sue Lohrbach and Scott Curran, both at Olmsted County Child and Family Services in Rochester, Minnesota and University of Minnesota in St PaulContracting strategies for working with involuntary clientsRonald H. Rooney, University of MinnesotaA framework for working with resistance, motivation and changeMartin C. Calder, Calder Training and ConsultancySocial work with involuntary clients in child protection workBrian Littlechild, University of HertfordshireA framework for family empowerment: tools for working with involuntary clientsJudith Bula Wise, Professor Emerita, Bryn Mawr CollegeEngaging children, young people and their families via family group conferencesPeter Marsh, University of SheffieldPartnership between health visitors and parentsChristine Bidmead and Professor Sarah CowleyEngaging men in child protection workSimon Hackett, University of DurhamWorking With Specific Client GroupsTreating resistance in sex offenders: enhancing motivationMark Carich, Sarah Williamson and Gerry Dobkowski, Big Muddy River Correctional Center, Illinois Department of CorrectionsEngaging sexually abusive youth in treatmentPhil Rich, Stetson School residential treatment program, MassachusettsWorking with parents for family safety where domestic violence is a child protection issueErica Flegg, University of Edinburgh, and Calvin Bell, Director of Ahimsa (Safer Families) Ltd and Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology, Birmingham UniversityWorking with mothers in situations of sexual and domestic abuse: reframing resistance as restricted choicesMartin C. Calder, Calder Training and Consultancy, and Lynda ReganEngaging substance mis-users through coercionPhil Harris, Bristol University Social Policy Unit and independent practitioner.
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