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The Strengths Model: Case Management With People Suffering from Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
The Strengths Model Case Management With People Suffering from Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Author:Charles A. Rapp The Strengths Model is the first book to focus exclusively on the alternative approach to identifying and correcting the deficits of mental illness -- the strength model of practice. It presents the theory, values, and principles on which the model is founded, as well as explicit practice methods that have been developed and refined over the pas... more »t fifteen years. The book includes detailed discussions of practice techniques such as engagement, strengths assessment, personal planning, and resource acquisition. Each chapter includes short case studies which illustrate the use of these methods and first-person perspectives of clients. The Strengths Model is about viewing and dealing with clients not as patients, but as people.« less