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This guide, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, provides a comprehensive framework for implementing family skills development programs aimed at preventing substance abuse. It emphasizes the family as both a protective and risk factor in substance use, defining effective strategies for skill development. The guide outlines principles for successful program execution, cultural adaptation, and strategies for engaging and retaining families. It also covers the selection, training, and support of group leaders, ensuring effective program delivery. Evaluation and monitoring processes are included to assess the impact and sustainability of the programs. Targeted towards policymakers, social workers, and educators, the guide aims to enhance family-based prevention efforts globally.
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This much-needed resource offers insight into building and maintaining satisfying and successful stepfamily relationships. As the number of stepfamilies continues to increase, counselors and other mental health professionals are likely to encounter clients seeking help in navigating these often complicated relationships. In this book, Dr. Gold emphasizes the principles and practices of narrative therapy as a means to address key concerns within the family system, reauthor dominant social myths surrounding stepfamily life, and create realistic treatment plans that are inclusive of all members of the family. Detailing the inherent strengths and challenges of the stepfamily experience, he provides an in-depth examination of the roles of each member in a blended family, including stepfathers and stepmothers, ex-spouses, grandparents, and children. This book is an excellent guide to thoughtful, practical, and empirically validated interventions for helping stepfamilies thrive.
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The book is organized into three parts: An overview on families An overview of frequently used models of family therapy at the undergraduate level Presentation of ethics, trends, and services in counseling families Engaging transcripts of family counseling sessions bring concepts and theories to life while showing assessment tools, theories, needs for additional services, and ethical issues Case study approach allows students to follow how family counselors think and lets them examine family issues such as substance abuse, domestic violence, and co-parenting in blended families "Stop-and-Think" features challenge students to expand their perspective from individuals to families and helps students learn to think about the family in terms of group dynamics Discussion topics and exercises aimed at using the students' own experiences with families as ...
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Families --- Family counseling --- Social change
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