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Solution-Based Casework: An Introduction to Clinical and Case Management Skills in Casework Practice (Modern Applications of Social Work (Cloth)) (Modern Applications of Social Work)
SolutionBased Casework An Introduction to Clinical and Case Management Skills in Casework Practice - Modern Applications of Social Work Cloth - Modern Applications of Social Work Author:Dana N. Christensen, Jeffrey Todahl, William C. Barrett Solution-Based Casework is a skill-based, practice-oriented text that provides the specific guidance that students and new practitioners need in order to make sense quickly of the complex tasks of assessment and case planning in child welfare. The book flows out of a long practice experience, and was developed in consultation with workers and su... more »pervisors who were attempting to remedy problems viewed as contributing to recurrent abuse and neglect. It seeks to end adversarial relationships in casework and advocates case plans based on specific outcome skills rather than written with vague outcome goals measuring attendance in counseling. It serves as a common conceptual framework for integrating disparate segments of a response network, thereby allowing all providers in a therapeutic system to work toward common goals.« less