Building Strengths and Skills: A Collaborative Approach to Working with Clients

by Jacqueline Corcoran

This is a much-needed practice book that demonstrates how helping professionals can emphasize their clients' resilience, strength, and capacities, rather than focusing on pathology or deficits. It offers an integrative practice model for both assessment and intervention that interweaves strengths-based (specifically solution-focused therapy and motivational interviewing) and skills-building (cognitive-behavioral) approaches. In the strengths-and-skills-based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195154304
• ISBN13: 9780195154306
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.9"