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Many practitioners encounter involuntary clients who are legally mandated to find counselling, such as juvenile offenders on probation, or who, as in the case of an alcoholic threatened by family desertion, are pressured to seek help. The end result is often considerable resistance and reluctance. Social work and other helping professions have tended to ignore or overlook this problem, and professional training assumes that most clients are self-selected and voluntary. Ronald Rooney's guide offers the first comprehensive and practical methodology for work with involuntary clients.

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Rooney focuses theoretical and practice attention on the most common population seen by social workers and other counseling professionals. The critical actors here are perpetrators of domestic and sexual abuse; the chemically dependent; street people who are offensive to the well-washed majority; prostitutes; and others who would avoid help, if given a choice, from the legion of counselors, social workers, and similar practitioners charged by a disinterested and uncaring society with fixing clients who are forced to accept their ministrations. The book is thorough, thoughtful, and well organized. Its single most outstanding feature is the dramatic but judicious use of case examples. The first section provides a complete review of the factors that serve as parameters of work with these clients. Of particular value is the section devoted to legal concerns especially the principle of due process and to recognition of the significance of interpersonal influence in the helping process. The second section treats practice activities with involuntary clients and can serve as a model for the explication of practice with any client population. Rooney makes wide use of both printed and video materials. Chapter notes are thorough and complete. No comprehensive bibliography, but excellent subject and author indexes. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty; professional. F. J. Peirce; emeritus, University of Oklahoma