Solution-Oriented Social Work Practice: An Integrative Approach to Working with Client Strengths

by Mo Yee Lee and Gilbert J. Greene

Too often in practice, there is a tendency to pathologize clients, requiring a diagnosis as part of the helping relationship. Suppose, however, that most of the client problems that social workers encounter have more to do with the vagaries of life and not with what clients are doing wrong. This powerful idea is the philosophy behind the strengths-based approaches to social work. This groundbreaking practice handbook takes this concept one step further,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195162625
• ISBN13: 9780195162622
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"