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Collaborative Helping: A Practice Framework for Family‐Centered Services
Author(s) -
MADSEN WILLIAM C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01270.x
Subject(s) - motivational interviewing , general partnership , appreciative inquiry , curiosity , narrative , metaphor , interview , psychology , work (physics) , engineering ethics , sociology , psychotherapist , pedagogy , social psychology , psychological intervention , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , psychiatry , anthropology , law
This article offers a framework for collaborative family‐centered practice that can reinvigorate our work with families who have not responded to more traditional approaches. Collaborative Helping is grounded in family‐centered principles that include: striving for cultural curiosity, believing in resourcefulness, working in partnership, and making our work more accountable to the clients we serve. The article introduces collaborative inquiry as an organizing metaphor for clinical practice and offers a five‐step practice framework with clinical illustrations and sample questions. The framework draws from appreciative inquiry, motivational interviewing, the signs of safety approach to child protection work, and solution‐focused and narrative therapies.