GOALS FOR HELPING CHILDREN IN DIVORCING OR BLENDED FAMILIES Depending on the circumstances of each case, individual, family, or group methods can help children in single-parent, divorcing, or blende... Read More
Childhood Identity Issues: The Transgender Child Modern society is beginning to acknowledge that children’s biological/physical identity may not conform to their psychological/emotional ... Read More
ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN FAMILY WORK Because of its complexity, work with families places extra demands on practitioners, who must strive to be fair, objective, and self-awar... Read More
Sessions with the Entire Family The purpose of seeing the entire family together is twofold: (1) to see firsthand how family members relate to one another and (2) to hel... Read More
DIFFERENT METHODS OF HELPING CHILDREN Achild is born into a family system which ideally tries to support and nourish his or her development. Most families try their best to hel... Read More
TRACKING PROGRESS AND TERMINATING Tracking Progress Once relationships have been established among the various professionals involved in a case, the process of keeping abreast of developmen... Read More
Various Intervention Options Let us consider the range of intervention options that might have been pursued with the Smith family, both within and outside the First P... Read More
PLANNING INTERVENTIONS The Unit of Attention What would have been the appropriate focus of the Smith case? The people or their environment? The child (Barbie) or her family? A “perso... Read More
Contracting, Planning Interventions, and Tracking Progress Every case situation is different, yet human needs are very similar despite these individual differences. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs rem... Read More