William C. Madsen, Kevin Gillespie

Collaborative Helping (eBook, ePUB)

A Strengths Framework for Home-Based Services

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary framework for sustainable helping through cross-system collaboration This hands-on resource provides clear, practical guidance for supportive service professionals working in a home-based environment. Drawing on best practices from a range of disciplines, this book provides a clear map for dealing with the complex and often ambiguous situations that arise with individuals and families, with applications extending to supervision and organizational change. Readers gain the advice and insight of real-world frontline helpers, as well as those who receive care, highlighting new ways to approach the work and re-think previous conceptualizations of problems and strengths. Helping efforts are organized around a shared, forward-thinking vision that anticipates obstacles and draws on existing and potential supports in developing a collaborative plan of action. The book begins with stories that illustrate core concepts and context, presenting a number of useful ideas that can reorient behavioral services while outlining a principle-based practice framework to help workers stay grounded and focused. Problems are addressed, and strength-based work is expanded into richer conversations about strengths in the context of intention and purpose, value and belief, hopes, dreams, and commitments. Topics include: * Contextual guidance with helping maps * Engaging people and re-thinking problems and strengths * Dilemmas in home and community services * Sustainable helping through collaboration and support A strong collaboration between natural networks, communities, and trained professionals across systems creates an effective helping endeavor. Ensuring sustainability may involve promoting systems change, and building institutional supports for specific supervisory, management, and organizational practices. Collaborative Helping provides a framework for organizing these efforts into a coherent whole, serving the needs of supportive services workers across sectors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118746455
• Artikelnr.: 40615180

Autorenporträt

WILLIAM MADSEN, PhD, is an internationally-renowned consultant in the fields of family therapy and social work. He is the author of Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families, a social work text used widely by public agencies and graduate programs. In 2013, he was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy, Theory, and Practice award by the American Family Therapy Academy. KEVIN GILLESPIE, MHSA, RN, is the Executive Director of Integrated Services and the founding director of Blue Sky Alliance of Appalachian Ohio. He has more than 30 years of experience combining direct service, system development, and administration. His work focuses on innovative service solutions for public service systems and in alliance with therapeutic, housing, and employment professionals.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1 HELPING: WHAT, HOW AND WHY Introduction Walking and Talking
Helping Activities - The What of Helping Relational Connection - The How of
Helping Experience and Stories - The Why of Helping Placing Collaborative
Helping in a Broader Context Moving Collaborative Helping into the Future
CHAPTER 2 CORNERSTONES OF COLLABORATIVE HELPING Collaborative Helping as a
Principle-Based Approach Collaborative Helping and Relational Stance
Collaborative Helping and a Focus on Life Stories Collaborative Helping and
Inquiry The Cornerstones in Plain English CHAPTER 3 A MAP TO GHIDE HELPING
EFFORTS Introducing Collaborative Helping Maps The Collaborative Helping
Map in Action Organizing Vision and Preferred Directions in Life Obstacles
and Supports The Plan The Usefulness of a Map The Usefulness of a Map
CHAPTER 4 COLLABORATIVE HELPING MAPS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS Using
Collaborative Helping Maps in Residential Programs Using Collaborative
Helping Maps to Enhance Conversations in Child Protective Services Family
Safety Plan Using Collaborative Helping Maps in the Changing World of
Health Care Current and Potential Uses for Collaborative Helping Maps
CHAPTER 5 ENGAGING PEOPLE TO ENVISION NEW LIVES Engagement - Who are You
and What is Important to You? Vision - Where Would You Like to be Headed in
Your Life? Vinny - Working with a Youth with a No Problem Stance Margie -
Working with a Woman with a No Control Stance Visioning Difficulties
Connecting to Build Desired Futures CHAPTER 6 RE-THINKING PROBLEMS AND
STRENGTHS Rethinking Strengths and Needs Conversations about Problems as
Obstacles Separate from People Beginning Externalizing Conversations
Examples of Externalizing Conversations Maps for Externalizing
Conversations Addressing the Broader Socio-Cultural Context in
Externalizing Re-Thinking Strengths as "Intentional Practices of Living"
Determination as a Counterweight to Despair A Map For Conversations about
Strengths as "Intentional Practices of Living" Applications of
Conversations about "Strengths" New Conversations about Problems and
Strengths CHAPTER 7 DILEMMAS IN HOME AND COMMUNITY SERVICES Concrete Help,
Boundaries and the Terrain of Home and Community Work The Contribution of
Family Partners to Collaborative Helping Relational Stance and Advocacy
Efforts Power Dynamics in Working with the Larger Helping System Dilemmas
in Advocacy Efforts Helping People More Effectively Advocate for Themselves
In the End, It's Still Walking and Talking CHAPTER 8 SUSTAINABLE HELPING
Using Collaborative Helping Maps to Enhance Supervision Building
Organizations that Support Collaboration Building Organizational Cultures
that Support Collaboration A Brief Look Back REFERENCES