TY - BOOK AU - Mark Ragg D TI - Building family practice skills: methods, strategies, and tools SN - 0534556868 U1 - 362.82 PY - 2006/// CY - Belmont, CA PB - Thomson Brooks/Cole KW - Family Social Work KW - Family Counseling KW - Social Work KW - Social Sciences N2 - This book presents a transtheoretical 'response system framework' for understanding family practice. This framework organizes theoretical information, assessment protocols, skills, and intervention strategies into a learning structure that helps students understand myriad client situations and the intervention strategies that would be most appropriate for those specific situations. Using this over-arching structure, and focusing on two systems of response--action systems (how family members behave and interrelate) and processing systems (how family members interpret/feel) - [the author] guides readers through the five parts of the book with the goal of building holistic family intervention skills ER -