Summary
Contents
Subject index
Introduction to Social Work Practice orients the students to the role of the professional social worker. The first chapter delineates the differences between being a good friend and being a good clinician in terms of social/emotional factors, professionalism, and self-disclosure. The second chapter covers techniques for building a trusting working environment that is conducive to processing sensitive issues along with an overview of key therapeutic communication skills. The remaining five chapters detail an easy-to-remember five-step problem-solving model to guide the clinical process: 1. Assessment, 2. Goal, 3. Objectives, 4. Activation, 5. Termination.
Key features include:
role-play exercises; brief essay and response questions to build and test key communication skills; discussion points; glossary of terms; diagrams and charts that graphically represent the flow of the helping process.
The workbook presumes no prior clinical experience and uses no technical psychological jargon. It teaches fundamental communication skills while emphasizing key social work values, ethics, and issues of multicultural populations and diversity throughout.
Step III—Objectives: How Does the Client Get from Here to There?
Step III—Objectives: How Does the Client Get from Here to There?

Objectives plot the map detailing how the client will advance from the initial starting point to achieving the specified goal. The strategic plan includes a sequenced list of the objectives detailing the actions, resources, time frames, and incentives for each step (McClam & Woodside, 1994).
Definitions
Before demonstrating how to construct objectives, it is necessary to define the following concepts, which are involved in creating the strategic (implementation) plan: goal, objective, action, resource, time frame, incentive, and strategy.
Goal
The desired destination—what the client wishes to accomplish
As discussed in Chapter 4, the goal indicates the client's destination. The goal can also be thought of as the desired change. ...
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