Chapter 12 Intervention Activating Resources. Applying Generalist Intervention Skills Accentuate and develop strengths Experiment with changes Renegotiate

Chapter 12

Intervention

Activating Resources

Applying Generalist Intervention Skills

• Accentuate and develop strengths

• Experiment with changes

• Renegotiate transactions of the client system with the environment

• Modify functioning of environmental systems

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Maintaining Progress in the Action Plan

• Collaborating

• Maintaining focus

• Encouraging participation

• Stimulating support

• Handling differences


Maintaining Progress in the Action Plan

• Sustaining motivation

• Validating the client's reality

• Accepting nature of change

• Respecting uniqueness

• Providing emotional support




Implementing Action Plans

• Collaborating on actions– Monitor the plan– Frame between-meeting activities – Share responsibility for interventions


Enhancing Interactions

• Maintaining focus– Help clients stay on course– Discuss issues in depth before moving on– Focus discussion in formal meetings

• Encouraging participation

• Stimulating support and alliances

• Handling differences


Sustaining Motivation

• Validating the client’s reality– Especially important for issues of oppression– Normalize clients’ experiences

• Accepting the nature of change– Change occurs erratically – Resistance is to be expected– Set-backs are natural; Requires patience


Sustaining Motivation

• Respecting Uniqueness– No two clients change in same way– Acknowledge unique qualities– Openly discuss and accept differences– Provide emotional support


Developing Power

• Noting expertise, resources, and gifts

• Promoting leadership

• Facilitating choices

• Creating New Concepts

• Locating genuine options

• Magnifying strengths ; Highlighting solutions; Shaping competence


Offering and Constructing Feedback

• Facilitates self-evaluation

• Behavior has three parts:– Intent; Behavior; Outcome

• Articulating intent allows observation and analysis of:– Which behaviors net intended results– Which miss their marks


Creating New Concepts

• Reframing

• Using metaphors

• Using narrative strategies

• Externalizing

• Trying out new behaviors


Using Narrative Strategies & Trying Out New Behaviors

• Externalizing

• Constructing Experimental Activities

• Observations; Connecting & disconnecting

• Maintaining productive actions

• Taking small steps

• Implementing Activities

• Following Up




Managing Resources

• Link clients with resources

• Workers – Play supplemental roles– Choose methods that increase clients'

resource management skills


Client Advocacy

• Collaborate with clients to influence the way other systems respond

• Expand opportunities

• Traverse bureaucratic red tape


Maximizing Clients’ Rights

• Increase client access to programs, services, and other benefits

• Fair hearings and appeals – Mechanisms for appealing decisions

• Due process of law – Protects rights


Education: Teaching & Sharing Information

• Role-playing

• Structured training experiences

• Modeling

• Offering theoretical information, practice wisdom, and research findings

• Using expertise to inform and normalize

• Self-disclosure




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Chapter 12 Intervention Activating Resources. Applying Generalist Intervention Skills Accentuate and develop strengths Experiment with changes Renegotiate