Solution-focused case management

Cover
 Title
 Copyright
 Contents
 Foreword
 Preface
 Acknowledgments
 Share Solution-Focused Case Management
 Chapter 1: Solution-Focused Case Management: Definitions and Meanings
 Shifting Into New Ideas
 Exercise: How Our Assumptions Determine How We View the Client
 Conclusion
 Chapter 2: Challenging Our Assumptions
 Convergent Development of Seminal Concepts Inherent in Solution-Focused Practice
 Coming From a "Not-Knowing Stance"
 Building Meanings Together With Clients
 This Is Your Brain on Conversations: Neuroscience Research
 Clients Have Strengths: Use Them! Solution-Focused AssumptionsIt Is About Abilities, Not Disabilities: Positive Psychology and Solution Focus
 Practice Research
 Conclusion
 Chapter 3: Solution-Building in Case Management
 Exercise: Differences Between Solution-Building and Problem-Solving Processes
 The Problems With Problem Talk
 Problem Focus
 Solution Focus
 Conversation as the Tool for Change
 Learning to Listen
 Exercise
 Steps to Developing a Useful Conversation: An Overview
 The National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery
 Promoting Social Justice
 Chapter 4: Solution Focus: Its History and Practice. A Brief History of Solution-Focused PracticeHow Clients and Case Managers Make Meaning Together: Wittgenstein and Language Games
 What Happens After Clients and Case Managers Say "Hello": Forming Solution-Focused Collaborative Partnerships
 Listening to Clients
 An Introduction to Solution-Focused Skills and Processes
 Making a Difference
 First Meeting and Introduction
 Not-Knowing Stance and Radical Acceptance
 Set a Positive and Collaborative Tone
 Initiate a Collaborative Look at the Challenges
 An Introduction to the Solution-Focused Intervention Tools
 Ask the Miracle Question. Ask for Details About the Client's GoalsAsk Scaling Questions
 Explore Exceptions
 Confidence Scales
 Affirming the Client's Perceptions
 Returning Focus of Conversation to the Goal
 Noticing Opportunities of Possibilities
 Amplifying Solution Building
 The Session Break
 Feedback
 End of Session
 Next Session
 The Second Session and Beyond: E.A.R.S.
 Exercise: Trying Out the Ideas
 Beginning the Session
 Follow-Up Choices
 Critique Your Work
 Chapter 5: Expanding on Collaborative Partnerships and Goal Formation
 Cocreating Useful Conversations With Clients. Exercise: What Do You Do Well or What Are You Best at?Remember the Solution-Focused Values When Working With Clients
 Social Constructionism
 Every Client is a Customer for Something
 Solution-Focused Assumptions
 Past Experience With Services
 Coconstructing Useful Goals With Clients
 Best Hopes Question
 Miracle Question
 Scaling Questions
 What Else?
 Useful Goals: A Case Example
 Discussion
 Chapter 6: Solution-Focused Planning and Assessment
 Solution-Focused Brief Practice Begins With the Details of Clients' Stated Goals
 Discussion
 Discussion
 Exercise
 Assessments as Interventions.