Collaborative Helping

CHAPTER 1 HELPING: WHAT, HOW AND WHY Introduction Walking and Talking Helping Activities - The What of Helping Relational Connection - The How of Helping Experience and Stories - The Why of Helping Placing Collaborative Helping in a Broader Context Moving Collaborative Helping into the Future CHAPTER 2 CORNERSTONES OF COLLABORATIVE HELPING Collaborative Helping as a Principle-Based Approach Collaborative Helping and Relational Stance Collaborative Helping and a Focus on Life Stories Collaborative Helping and Inquiry The Cornerstones in Plain English CHAPTER 3 A MAP TO GHIDE HELPING EFFORTS Introducing Collaborative Helping Maps The Collaborative Helping Map in Action Organizing Vision and Preferred Directions in Life Obstacles and Supports The Plan The Usefulness of a Map The Usefulness of a Map CHAPTER 4 COLLABORATIVE HELPING MAPS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS Using Collaborative Helping Maps in Residential Programs Using Collaborative Helping Maps to Enhance Conversations in Child Protective Services Family Safety Plan Using Collaborative Helping Maps in the Changing World of Health Care Current and Potential Uses for Collaborative Helping Maps CHAPTER 5 ENGAGING PEOPLE TO ENVISION NEW LIVES Engagement - Who are You and What is Important to You? Vision - Where Would You Like to be Headed in Your Life? Vinny - Working with a Youth with a No Problem Stance Margie - Working with a Woman with a No Control Stance Visioning Difficulties Connecting to Build Desired Futures CHAPTER 6 RE-THINKING PROBLEMS AND STRENGTHS Rethinking Strengths and Needs Conversations about Problems as Obstacles Separate from People Beginning Externalizing Conversations Examples of Externalizing Conversations Maps for Externalizing Conversations Addressing the Broader Socio-Cultural Context in Externalizing Re-Thinking Strengths as "Intentional Practices of Living" Determination as a Counterweight to Despair A Map For Conversations about Strengths as "Intentional Practices of Living" Applications of Conversations about "Strengths" New Conversations about Problems and Strengths CHAPTER 7 DILEMMAS IN HOME AND COMMUNITY SERVICES Concrete Help, Boundaries and the Terrain of Home and Community Work The Contribution of Family Partners to Collaborative Helping Relational Stance and Advocacy Efforts Power Dynamics in Working with the Larger Helping System Dilemmas in Advocacy Efforts Helping People More Effectively Advocate for Themselves In the End, It's Still Walking and Talking CHAPTER 8 SUSTAINABLE HELPING Using Collaborative Helping Maps to Enhance Supervision Building Organizations that Support Collaboration Building Organizational Cultures that Support Collaboration A Brief Look Back REFERENCES