Research Catalog

Title

Learning to change lives : the strategies and skills learning and development system / A. Ka Tat Tsang.

Author

Tsang, Adolf Ka Tat, 1954-

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013], ©2013.

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Description

xv, 329 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

• "The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development (SSLD) system is an action-oriented model for enabling clients in social work, health, mental health, and human services settings to address their needs and life goals. In Learning to Change Lives, author A. Ka Tat Tsang introduces SSLD's powerful framework and practice, which has been developed based on three decades of experience in psychotherapy, counselling, education, training, consultation, and community service.
• Learning to Change Lives provides detailed, step-by-step guidelines for SSLD intervention - starting with engagement with the client, assessment, translating problems into intervention plans, systematic learning and development of appropriate strategies and skills. Key practice procedures are described clearly and illustrated by case examples, specific instructions, and sample worksheets. Aimed at clinical practitioners, mental health professionals, social workers, and other human service professionals, this book can be used as a manual by practitioners and as a textbook for courses and training programs."--Pub. desc.

Subject

• Social skills > Study and teaching
• Human services personnel
• Habiletés sociales > Étude et enseignement
• Services sociaux > Personnel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-319) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1 The SSLD Idea 3 -- 1 Introduction 5 -- 2 Social and Interpersonal Strategies and Skills as Human Action 20 -- 3 Basic Principles of Strategies and Skills Learning and Development 44 -- Part 2 Basic SSLD Procedure 59 -- 4 Problem Translation 61 -- 5 Review of Current Strategies 95 -- 6 Formulating and Designing Relevant Strategies and Skills 109 -- 7 The Learning Process 126 -- Part 3 Building Blocks 137 -- 8 Reception 141 -- 9 Expression 151 -- 10 Engagement 174 -- 11 Managing Relationships 187 -- 12 Instrumental Tasks 218 -- Part 4 SSLD Practice and Related Issues 233 -- 13 Learning and Applying SSLD 235 -- 14 Issues Related to SSLD: A Personal Note 284.

ISBN

• 9781442645813 (bound)
• 1442645814 (bound)
• 9781442614017 (pbk.)
• 1442614013 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 818407477
• SCSB-12300088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library