Family Wellness Skills: Quick Assessment and Practical Interventions for the Mental Health Professional
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 039370632X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A psycho-educational model for assessing individuals and families.
In Family Wellness Skills, Joseph Hernandez, a longtime Family Wellness trainer and practitioner, shares the foundational concepts of the Family Wellness model to make it accessible to an even broader audience. In it, he provides mental health professionals with a map to guide their clients from recognizing a need for change, to deciding to make a change, to achieving change itself.
Hernandez lays out the core ideas behind Family Wellness―chief among them, balancing individuality with connection; fostering skills for interpersonal health (speaking, listening, and cooperating); and developing and maintaining patterns that work for families (mutual respect, parents in charge, interdependence, and expecting change). He shows all helping professionals how to develop effective treatment plans and practical interventions that take into account a family’s inherent assets. Family Wellness Skills provides a complete, handy guide to the key points of this successful treatment model, so any mental health professional can help families discover and develop their gifts and abilities, making for stronger, healthier relationships.
individual a better chance of obtaining what is desired. Always remember to applaud any effort in the desired direction. DEMANDING AGREEMENT If an individual demands acquiescence and agreement from others, encouragement to learn how to handle disagreement will be a predominant intervention. A person who demands that others agree with him and feels devastated or enraged when they do not is usually feeling weak and inferior. The strong facade is often a cover for feelings of inadequacy. An
not require agreement. Listening requires respect. Some people may be so good at listening that they actually become passive and need to learn to speak up more. Others may need to learn and practice the actual nuts and bolts of listening: being quiet and reflecting words, emotions, and energy. They may need to develop the attitudinal and behavioral skills of listening. Some will know how to listen but may need to modulate it, listening either more or less. Satisfaction with the level of
useful within the family and can then ask if there are any rules they would like to change. When they offer several ideas, ask them to pick one. When children ask for several changes at the same time they are likely not to get anything from the parents. Review with children the concepts that parents are in charge and that children are asking for a change by stating what they want, being willing to listen to the parents, looking for areas of agreement, stating what they are willing to do in order
these two jobs in a way that works well for both the individual and the couple or family. The healthy person has the ability to know how to be close without losing a sense of self and how to be apart without becoming disconnected. The assessment of an individual’s ability to juggle these apparently competing demands will help the therapist in identifying the client’s treatment needs and suggest interventions to produce the desired outcomes. Closeness produces intimacy. Closeness is what keeps
behavior, reverence, irreverence, spontaneity. Whatever you call it, have fun! The legacy that George Doub left was a way of thinking and a way of being. He exemplified the best of what it is to be a mental health professional. He lived the “C” attitudes. Virginia Morgan Scott, who has earned the right to rest on her accomplishments, continues to recognize no limits. She teaches social workers in South Korea, conducts senior women’s support groups, and captures the beauty of the world she sees