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 helps students understand myriad client situations and the intervention strategies that would be most appropriate for those specific situations. Using this overarching structure, and focusing on two systems of responseaction 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'; 'ChangeFocused Intervention'; and 'Working with MultiProblem and HighRisk Families.