Task Strategies: An Empirical Approach to Clinical Social Work

by William J. Reid

This study focuses on task-centered intervention strategies in order to attain a variety of goals that regularly arise in short-term clinical work with both individuals and families. These strategies involve problem-solving actions or tasks carried out by clients in the treatment session, at home or in the community. A task consists of acting in a planned way to solve a problem, rather than talking about the problem as a means to develop insight or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231075502
• ISBN13: 9780231075503
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 24.1" x 16.5" x 16.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher