McCashen, Wayne. <br/><br/>
The strengths approach :   sharing power, building hope, creating change /  
Wayne McCashen. 
 - Expanded second edition. 
 - x, 286 pages :  illustrations;  24cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 280 -286). 
<br/><br/>1. Foundations of the strengths approach -- 2. The strengths emphasis -- 3. Power-over -- 4. Power-with -- 5. Processes and skills of the strengths approach -- 6. Client-owned recording -- 7. The strengths approach to service management -- 8. Parallel practice: building strengths-based organisations -- 9. Parallel practice and staff supervision -- 10. Strengths-based supervision day-to-day -- 11. The strengths approach to community connectedness. 
<br/><br/> "This second edition contains substantive new material including stories from practice, reflective exercises for students and seasoned practitioners alike, expanded discussions about strengths, ‘power-over’ and ‘power-with’, social inclusion, reforming, narrative therapy, the strengths-based mind map and column approach, strengths-based supervision, client-owned recording and much more. It puts ‘parallel practice’ squarely on the agenda, challenging organisations to embed strengths-based, socially-just ways of working at every level of their operations, and providing the frameworks to do so." -- Back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781925657005 9781864590005 1864590009 1925657000 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Community-based social services--Australia.<br/>Family social work--Australia.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>361.320994  / MCC