Module I: Introduction to Work with Complex Clients

  1. Community and Society as Client
  2. Organization as Client
  3. Feedback to Instructor

Module II: Using Theory in Work with Complex Clients

  1. Assessment and Analysis strategies
  2. Intervention strategies
  3. Feedback to Instructor

Module III: Viewing the Complex Client from a Multiple Frame Perspective

  1. Introduction to Multiple Frame Perspectives
  2. Introduction to Individual Frames
  3. Feedback to Instructor

Module IV: Structural-Functional Concepts and Theories

  1. Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches in the Structural-Functional Frame
  2. Issues/Potential in Applying Concepts/Theory for Research and Practice with Complex Clients
  3. Feedback to Instructor

Module V: Human Resource-Interactional Concepts and Theories

  1. Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches in the Human Resource-Interactional Frame
  2. Issues/Potential in Applying Concepts/Theory for Research and Practice with Complex Clients
  3. Feedback to Instructor

Module VI: Political-Power Frame Concepts and Theories

  1. Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches in the Political and Power frame.
  2. Issues/Potential in Applying Concepts/Theory for Research and Practice with Complex Clients
  3. Feedback to Instructor

Module VII: Cultural-Symbolic Frame Concepts and Theories

  1. Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches in the Cultural-Symbolic Frame.
  2. Issues/Potential in Applying Concepts/Theory for Research and Practice with Complex Clients
  3. Feedback to Instructor

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Elaine Domian, University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Nursing, January, 2001