Collaborative Helping: A Practice Framework for Family‐Centered Services

Abstract

This article offers a framework for collaborative family-centered practice that can rein-vigorate our work with families who have not responded to more traditional approaches. Collaborative Helping is grounded in family-centered principles that include: striving for cultural curiosity, believing in resourcefulness, working in partnership, and making our work more accountable to the clients we serve. The article introduces collaborative inquiry as an organizing metaphor for clinical practice and offers a five-step practice framework with clinical illustrations and sample questions. The framework draws from appreciative inquiry, motivational interviewing, the signs of safety approach to child protection work, and solution-focused and narrative therapies.

Positioning Oneself Within an Epistemology: Refining Our Thinking About Integrative Approaches

“…Integrative approaches include, but are not limited to, Scheinkman's (2008) multilevel road map with couples, Fraenkel's (2009) therapeutic palette, Madsen's (2007Madsen's ( , 2009) collaborative therapy, and Weingarten's (2000Weingarten's ( , 2003Weingarten's ( , 2004Weingarten's ( , 2010 work in witnessing and hope.…”

“…Many systems therapists currently see their stance as a collaborative one (e.g., Fraenkel, 2009;Scheinkman, 2008), encouraging clients to be participants in actively shaping the process of change. It is difficult, however, to totally eschew the ''expert'' role, somehow assigning more credence to the therapist's knowledge and coming across as knowing what is best for the client (e.g., Guilfoyle, 2003;Madsen, 2007Madsen, , 2009Winslade, 2005Winslade, , 2009.…”

“…In the following examples, I describe and critique four different integrative approaches: Scheinkman's (2008) multilevel road map, Fraenkel's (2009;Fraenkel & Pinsof, 2001) therapeutic palette, Madsen's (2007Madsen's ( , 2009) collaborative therapy, and Weingarten's work on witnessing (2000,2003,2004) and on reasonable hope (2010). Although lines are always blurred, depending upon where one stands, I would place these four examples on a continuum from structural to poststructural.…”

Perception, par les infirmières en oncologie, de leurs relations avec les proches des patients dans un milieu de soins ambulatoires en oncologie : une étude multi-méthodes

“…Les participantes promouvaient des relations non hiérarchiques, comme il ressortait des descriptions qu'elles faisaient de la manière dont elles partageaient leur être et valorisaient ou reconnaissaient les contributions des patients atteints de cancer et de leurs proches aux soins qu'elles prodiguaient. Madsen (2009) rangerait cette approche sous le vocable « souligner la sagesse des clients » [traduction libre], une approche où les infirmières ne privilégient pas leurs connaissances professionnelles par rapport à celles des patients et des proches. Dans une même optique, Leahy et Harper-Jones (1996) diraient que ces infirmières se sont munies d'une « lentille non saturée par les problèmes » [traduction libre], pour parler des choses que les familles et les patients font bien alors qu'ils sont confrontés au cancer.…”

Reducing information asymmetry from the management control perspective: discussion of practices in transparent companies

“…Thus, it is understood that the reporting mechanism is treated as an interactive process, since sharing information generates a continuous dialogue between companies and users, helping interested parties' understanding and in company practices (Madsen, 2009). Thus, this discussion assumes that reporting practices linked with organizations' management is implicit in the communication process that exists between companies and users and that the more extensive and transparent it is, the more efficient the market becomes.…”