
Direct Work with Family Groups
Simple, Fun Ideas to Aid Engagement and Assessment and Enable Positive Change
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Direct Work with Family Groups
Simple, Fun Ideas to Aid Engagement and Assessment and Enable Positive Change
About this book
Direct Work with Family Groups is full of great ideas to aid engagement, assessment and enable positive change through direct work with family groups.
Working with families can be a challenging experience. This book looks at the personal skills needed to engage families, both at home and in the community. It provides guidance on how to assess and manage the needs of individual family members, whilst also being mindful of potential risk factors. With easy to use activities and resources, this book will inspire you to think about creative new ways to plan and carry out your work.
Based on tried and tested techniques, this is a must-have for social workers and social work students, as well as child protection workers, therapists, counsellors and child and family centre workers. It is the perfect complement to Direct Work with Vulnerable Children, also by the same authors.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- By The Same Authors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The First Home Visit
- 3. Keeping Yourself Safe
- 4. What to Do If You Donāt Get Access ā The Client Refuses to Open the Door
- 5. Once in the Door
- 6. Working with Resistance, Challenging Behaviour and Aggression
- 7. Using Praise
- 8. Getting Started
- 9. The Bag
- 10. Activities to Support Engagement
- 11. Activities to Aid Assessment and/or Help With āBig Conversationsā
- 12. Simple Ideas to Increase Parent/Child Proximity and Positive Touch
- 13. Behaviour
- 14. Storytelling
- 15. Endings
- Appendix I: Compliment Cards
- Appendix II: Chocolate Biscuit Cake Recipe
- Appendix III: Rabbit Templates
- Appendix IV: Child Management Chart
- Appendix V: The Detective and the Sniffer Dog Template
- Appendix VI: Endings
- Appendix VII: Train Template for Endings
- Index
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