Book Review – Preventing Breakdown

PREVENTING BREAKDOWN – A MANUAL FOR THOSE WORKING WITH
FAMILIES AND FOR INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THEM

Mark Hamer, Russell House Publishing

ISBN 1903855616, £29.95

Star Rating: 4/5

Preventing Breakdown offers practical techniques for empowering
and engaging families to work out their problems, writes Sarah
Hubbard.

Written for those working with families in crisis, it gives a
brief overview of the Option 2 programme in Cardiff offering
no-nonsense evidence-based practice advice. It also includes
chapters on communication skills, power and partnership, and
motivational interviewing.

It includes a number of practical handouts for tips for coping
with depression, stress and so on. These can be used by the
individual reader or by families themselves.

Rather than a jargon-loaded reference book, this “How To” manual
offers simple, effective and tested solutions to crisis situations
within families with measurable outcomes for practitioners and
families. A comprehensive “hands-on” resource, it is an invaluable
book for practitioners and students.

Sarah Hubbard is studying for a Diploma in Social
Work.