Strategies for Work with Involuntary Clients

by Ronald H. Rooney and Professor Ronald H. Rooney

Book Overview

Many practitioners encounter involuntary clients who are legally mandated to find counselling, such as juvenile offenders on probation, or who, as in the case of an alcoholic threatened by family desertion, are pressured to seek help. The end result is often considerable resistance and reluctance. Social work and other helping professions have tended to ignore or overlook this problem, and professional training assumes that most clients are self-selected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231067690
• ISBN13: 9780231067690
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"