Description
Book SynopsisIn an update to this classic text, Ronald H. Rooney and Rebecca G. Mirick explore the best ways to work with unwilling clients. This book provides a framework for understanding the legal, ethical, and practical concerns, offering theory, treatment models, and specific practice strategies to facilitate collaborative, effective working relationships.
Trade ReviewHooray! The much-anticipated third edition of
Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients builds on the superb previous editions, adding depth and breadth to a uniquely useful presentation of practice strategies for working with individuals and families. Ronald H. Rooney and Rebecca Mirick provide insightful guidelines for legal and ethical issues and a new chapter on the ‘involuntary’ practitioner. An invaluable resource for both students and professionals. -- Alex Gitterman, University of Connecticut School of Social Work
In this substantive and helpful collection of essays, the editors and the contributors manage to convey that we can be respectful of a client’s rights while not being too easily put off by understandable resistance. In the end, real change is always in the control of the clients, even those who didn’t have a choice in engaging in the service. -- Lawrence Shulman, SUNY Buffalo
This comprehensive and accessible text will be plundered for its insightful observations coupled with practical suggestions across a range of service areas. It is timely, as emphasis is shifting from identifying problems/risks to looking at how work can be undertaken with different types of involuntary clients to effect the required change. Best read from cover to cover, this is a genuine candidate for the authoritative guide in this challenging area of work. -- Martin C. Calder, director, Calder Training and Consultancy
This book helped me define who is involuntary and how to approach a client who is defined that way. It presents cases, data, research, and questions that will shift our way of thinking about clients and therapist that are ‘forced’ to be in treatment. -- Elizabeth Misener, University of Southern California
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Part I: A Foundation for Work with Involuntary Clients1. Introduction to Involuntary Practice, by Ronald Rooney
2. Legal and Ethical Foundations for Work with Involuntary Clients, by Ronald Rooney
3. Effectiveness with Involuntary Clients, by Ronald Rooney
4. Influencing Behaviors and Attitudes, by Ronald Rooney
5. Oppression and Involuntary Status, by Glenda Dewberry Rooney and Joan Blakey
6. Trauma Informed Care with Legally Mandated Involuntary Clients, by Joan Blakey
Part II: Practice Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients7. Assessing Initial Contacts in Involuntary Transactions, by Rebecca Mirick
8. Initial Phase Work with Individual Involuntary Clients, by Rebecca Mirick
9. Task-Centered Intervention with Involuntary Clients, by Ronald Rooney
10. Work with Involuntary Families, by Rebecca Mirick
11. Work with Involuntary Groups, by Michael Chovanec
Part III: Practice Applications with Involuntary Problems and Settings 12. Work with Men in Domestic Abuse Treatment, by Michael Chovanec
13. Integrated Health Care and Health Disparities, by Tamara Davis and Adriane Peck
14. Strengths-Based Strategies for Improving Quality of Life Among Dementia-Affected Older Adults, and Their Care Partners, by Justine McGovern
15. Substance Abuse Treatment: A Field in the Midst of Change, by Katherine van Wormer and Laura Parker
16. Work with Unmotivated Clients, by Per Revstedt
17. Bringing Up What They Don’t Want to Talk About: Use of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Alcohol and Depression in a Community College Health Center, by Melinda Hohman, Christine Kleinpeter, and Tamara Strohauer
18. Involuntary Clients in Public Schools: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Interventions, by Cynthia Franklin, Laura Hopson and Samantha Guz
19. Work with Involuntary Clients in Child Welfare Settings, by Rebecca Mirick, Julie Altman, and Debra Gohagan
20. Work with Involuntary Clients in Corrections, by Chris Trotter
21. Applying the Involuntary Perspective to Supervision, by Carol Jud and Tony Bibus
22. The Nonvoluntary Practitioner and the System, by Ronald Rooney
Appendix
About the Editors
Contributors
Index
