COLLABORATIVE HELPING: A Practice Framework for Family-Centered Services with William Madsen, Family Institute of Cambridge
Family-Centered Services Project Individual practitioners, as well as community and state agencies, are searching for effective approaches to helping efforts that support strength-based, collaborative partnerships that are accountable to people served. This video introduces Collaborative Helping, an integrated practice framework that draws from cutting edge ideas and practices in family therapy, community/organizational development, and post-modern thinking while applying them in a concrete and accessible fashion. It offers a flexible map to help practitioners operationalize family-centered principles in the everyday "messiness" of practice in order to assist individuals and families envision desired lives, address long-standing problems and develop proactive coping strategies in the context of their local communities. The video outlines the fundamentals of Collaborative Helping and then illustrates its use in both a clinical situation and in a supervisory situation with live consultations.
In Part One, Dr. Madsen demonstrates the Collaborative Helping approach working with Frank and Amour, an African American father and adolescent son, who struggle with multiple stressors after the sudden death of their wife/mother.
In Part Two, Yolanda, a family counselor, meets with Dr. Madsen for supervision regarding, Vivian, a West Indian/Haitian adolescent client, who struggles to balance issues of culture, drug addiction, sexual identity, and poverty.
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