The Task Planner an Intervention Resource for Human Service Professionals
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Description:
This practical guide for social workers presents systematic and streamlined techniques for helping clients resolve their problems. It includes a comprehensive, A-to-Z set of task planners for more than one hundred psychosocial problems encountered by human service professionals. Each entry includes a menu of actions the client can undertake to effect resolution; a clear, step-by-step guide to the practitioner's role in facilitating these actions; and a list of references. The book also contains a glossary of common procedures used by human service professionals and a comprehensive reference list.
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The Task Planner addresses such issues as:
-- Alcoholism
-- Anxiety (including obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and panic disorder)
-- Domestic Violence
-- Elderly Clients
-- Sexual Abuse
With the task-centered approach, clients are actively involved in reaching their own solutions or coping mechanisms -- both on their own and in treatment sessions -- giving them a sense of empowerment.
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Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
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