Summary
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Human relationships lie at the very heart of social work practice, and an understanding of their importance is a crucial aspect of training. This book considers the place of relationships in current practice and explores the ways in which social workers can use relationship skills to achieve the best possible outcomes for their clients.
The book also offers a unique discussion of the social worker's relationship with him or herself, arguing that self-awareness is as essential to good practice as an emotional understanding of the other. In doing so, the book promotes a new model for relationship-based social work, which emphasizes the importance of both the inter- and intrapersonal.
Opening with an introduction to the theoretical bases of the relationship-based model, the book then focuses on their direct application to social work practice. Key topics include:
Self-awareness and using oneself; Knowing the other person; Sustaining oneself; The ethics of relationship-based social work; Internalizing knowledge, skills and values
Using reflective exercises and case studies, the book encourages students to relate the tools they have learnt to practice scenarios from the real world, and is essential reading for all qualifying social work students.
Knowing the Other Person in Relationship Based Social Work
Knowing the Other Person in Relationship Based Social Work
Introduction
Knowing ourselves appears to be the foundation for knowing other people (Howe 2008). And knowing other people, and other people knowing that we know them, provides them with the experience of being more deeply understood – perhaps more than ever before in their life. Such understanding creates the circumstances in which they can begin to understand themselves – why they feel, think and act as they do. And their growing self-awareness provides them with the best possibility of creating change in their lives, of experiencing an enhanced degree of constructive control over their human and material environments. This kind of therapeutic client-change is the heart of and rationale ...
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