The Task Planner
The Task Planner: An Intervention Resource for Human Service Professionals
William J. Reid
Copyright Date: 2000
Published by: Columbia University Press
https://doi.org/10.7312/reid10646
Pages: 320
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/reid10646
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The Task Planner
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A comprehensive, A-to-Z set of task planners for more than one hundred psychosocial problems from alcoholism and anxiety to domestic violence and sexual abuse. Each entry includes a menu of actions the client can undertake to affect resolution, a guide to the practitioner's role in facilitating these actions, and a reference list. An accompanying disk allows social workers to update the task planners they are working with and enables keyword searches for specific topics.

eISBN: 978-0-231-50619-9
Subjects: Sociology
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-vii)
  3. Acknowledgments
    Acknowledgments (pp. viii-viii)
    William J. Reid
  4. List of Task Planners
    List of Task Planners (pp. ix-xvi)
  5. Simplified Guidelines
    Simplified Guidelines (pp. 1-2)
  6. Task Planners: Overview and Applications
    Task Planners: Overview and Applications (pp. 3-16)

    This work provides a resource for answering questions of perennial concern to practitioners and students in the human services, such as “What kind of problem is my client facing?” “What can he or she do to resolve it? “What can I do to facilitate the resolution?” The volume covers a large array of common problems that human service practitioners attempt to help their clients resolve. Although we emphasize problems dealt with by social workers, most are also encountered by other practitioners in the human services, including psychologists, psychiatrists, guidance counselors, teachers, and nurses.

    For each type of problem, we provide...

  7. Task Planners
    Task Planners (pp. 17-262)

    Substance abuse may be defined by continued use of alcohol or other drugs despite adverse consequences. These consequences for adults or adolescents may include one or more of the following: family or work disruption, health problems, engaging in high-risk behaviors, such as driving while intoxicated, and poor school performance or failure (Barker 1995; American Psychiatric Association 1994). The leading causes of death among youths are accidents and suicides, both of which are highly correlated with substance abuse. Research has suggested that substance abuse now begins at an earlier age than in previous generations, and that in youths, substance abuse progresses...

  8. Common Procedures
    Common Procedures (pp. 263-278)

    Applied Relaxation The technique of progressive relaxation is learned and then applied during periods of anxiety. Use of cues such as a self-instruction to relax can, with practice, be substituted for the actual tensing and relaxing of muscles. (For further discussion see Ost 1988 and Ost & Westling 1995).

    Cognitive Restructuring consists of the identification and change of dysfunctional cognitions or beliefs. Dysfunctional cognitions are those that contribute to a person’s problems in one way or another. Many types of dysfunctional cognitions have been identified. Some of the more common are:

    Automatic thoughts Unarticulated, half-conscious beliefs that guide moment-to-moment behavior....

  9. Appendix: Task Schedule
    Appendix: Task Schedule (pp. 279-282)
  10. References
    References (pp. 283-340)
  11. Index
    Index (pp. 341-344)
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