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Family Based Services: A Solution-Focused Approach
Insoo Kim Berg’s Family Based Services: A Solution-Focused Approach (1994) describes an approach to work in child welfare and family services.
Book details
Author of listed edition: Insoo Kim Berg
Edition: 1st edition (1994)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Edition year: 1994
Language and origin: English (United States)
ISBN: 9780393701623
Form and genre: Treatment Manual & Clinical Guide
Level: Intermediate
Historical era: 1980–2009 · Evidence-Based, Trauma & Integrative Era
Covers: Solution-focused intervention in family services; Case examples and sample assessment forms; Adaptation to different service programmes
APA 7th reference: Berg, I. K. (1994). Family based services: A solution-focused approach. W. W. Norton & Company.
What it is
Published in 1994, this guide describes a solution-focused approach for people working in child welfare and family services.
What it covers
The publisher describes a step-by-step account of intervention, case examples, sample assessment forms and discussion of adapting the approach to different programmes. The full text has not been reviewed for this entry.
Practice and evidence
The book presents a practice model. Its publication and publisher description do not demonstrate that a particular approach prevents harm or improves child-safety outcomes. Child protection decisions depend on the individual case, legal duties and local safeguarding arrangements.
Reading this record
This is an educational description of a clinical guide, not an evaluation of its effectiveness or advice for a particular family. The full book and research on its outcomes have not been reviewed.
Paired academic and clinical scholarship
Paired work: Signs of Safety: A Solution and Safety Oriented Approach to Child Protection Casework (Andrew Turnell and Steve Edwards, 1999)
Reference: Turnell, A., & Edwards, S. (1999). Signs of safety: A solution and safety oriented approach to child protection casework. W. W. Norton & Company.
A later book presents Signs of Safety as an approach to child protection casework. The publisher record does not establish the claimed direct lineage or comparative effects.
Source-mapped claims and evidence notes
Claim 1: The publisher describes a guide to solution-focused intervention in child welfare and family services. (The full book was not reviewed; the description does not establish child-safety outcomes.) [Source 1: Berg, I. K. (1994). Family based services: A solution-focused approach. W. W. Norton & Company.]
Sources and inspection notes
Berg, I. K. (1994). Family based services: A solution-focused approach. W. W. Norton & Company.
Supports: Publisher identifies Berg, the 1994 publication, ISBN and general description of the guide; the full text was not reviewed.
Supports: Bibliographic record for a later book on a child protection approach; no direct causal lineage or outcome claim has been verified.
Open Library. Family-based services: a solution-focused approach, catalogue record.
Supports: Catalogue lists the 1994 Norton edition and ISBN 039370162X.