Reviews : Casework Consultation: A Practical Guide for Consultation to Work with Sex Offenders and other High Risk Clients Tony Morrison Whiting & Birch Ltd., 1998; pp83; pbk, £24.95
| Published date | 01 September 1999 |
| Date | 01 September 1999 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059904600320 |
| Author | Mike Head |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Service by being independent. This guide
does not need to state that the consultant
is an independent; the entire thrust leaves
you in little doubt it is to be the adopted
position if integrity is to be maintained in
every situation.
The guide is assisted rather than
hampered by the past; consultation
belongs to cognitive behavioural
programmes as much as it does to what
might once have been described as
therapeutic approaches. It is refreshing to
encounter a merging of ideas rather than
the old being rebutted to bring in the new.
Synthesising being a reflection perhaps of
the consultation process itself.
Casework Consultation: A
Practical
Paradoxically the guide might be of
Guide for Consultation to Work
most use to the service manager hurriedly
with Sex Offenders and other High
commissioning and contracting for a
Risk Clients
consultant, such is the focus and clarity it
Tony Morrison
is surely suitable for CD-ROM. If all of
the advice
Whiting & Birch Ltd., 1998;
was taken it is tempting to
think that the tensions and
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problems to be
found in most consultation arrangements
Tony Morrison was commissioned to
might disappear. We know though that the
produce this guide for NOTA. In doing so
dynamic is so much more complicated,
he has drawn from theories, concepts and
and if there are to be improvements in
the experiences of practice of the last
contracting at manager level either the
three decades and beyond. Finding
staff or the consultant will find some
terminology such as ’casework’ and
reason for strain to be introduced. Having
’client’ not only in the title but also
been trained in the early 80s by the
throughout, might suggest that the
Tavistock Clinic to become a ’process
thinking belongs to the language
consultant’ I have been hired and fired
preceding the dogma of ’effectiveness’
more often than leaves me
comfortable.
and the time when ’pathfinder’ referred to
The course certainly prepared me to
night time bombing raids in Europe...
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