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Strengths-Based Practice
This model focuses on the inherent strengths of individuals, families, groups, and organizations, promoting empowerment and self-determination. It is widely applied in case management and counseling.
Task-Centered Practice
A short-term treatment where clients establish specific, achievable tasks to address problems. It involves collaboration between the social worker and client, employing problem-solving techniques.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT aims at changing patterns of thinking or behavior that are behind people's difficulties, thereby changing the way they feel. It is commonly used in treating anxiety, depression, and certain phobias.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
SFBT concentrates on finding solutions in the present time and exploring one's hope for the future to find quicker resolution of one’s problems. It is goal-directed and future-focused.
Narrative Therapy
This model centers on the stories of the client's life. By reinterpreting their narrative, clients can see how certain narratives have shaped their identity and may change the outcome.
Crisis Intervention Model
A model designed to offer short-term help to individuals who experience an event that produces emotional, mental, physical, and behavioral distress or problems.
Ecological Systems Theory
This model looks at individual's interactions with their environments and as a result of these interactions how policies and social structures impact individuals, families, and communities.
Psychodynamic Therapy
It focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Its hallmarks are self-reflection and self-examination, and the use of the relationship between therapist and patient as a window into problematic relationship patterns in the patient’s life.
Person-Centered Therapy
Developed by Carl Rogers, this non-directive approach believes in the intrinsic ability of individuals to reach self-fulfillment and solve their own problems in a supportive environment.
Systems Theory
A practice model that views human behavior through larger context, including family, community, and society. It considers the complexities of interconnected systems and relationships.
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