Relationship-Based Social Work: Getting to the Heart of Practice

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Gillian Ruch, Adrian Ward, Danielle Turney
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 jun 2010 - 272 pagina's

Relationship-based practice is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be at the heart of all good social work practice.

This book provides a thorough guide to relationship-based practice in social work, communicating the theory using illustrative case studies and offering a model for practice. Case examples cover the different service user groups including children, families, older people, refugees, people with disabilities and people with mental health difficulties. The book explores the ranges of emotions that practitioners may encounter, and covers working in both short-term and long-term relationships. It also outlines key skills for the individual such as how to establish rapport with the client and using empathy to build a relationship, and explores systemic issues such as incorporating service user perspectives and building appropriate support systems for practice, management and leadership.

This book will be an invaluable textbook for undergraduate and post-graduate social work students, practitioners on post-qualifying courses and all social work and allied professionals.

 

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction
7
Setting out the Terrain
10
Working wiwith the Relationship in Practicice
66
Sustaining Supppporting and Developiping RelationshipBased Practicice in a Reflective Context
180
BIBLIOGRAPHY
247
THE CONTRIBUTORS
260
SUBJECT INDEX
263
AUTHOR INDEX
269
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Over de auteur (2010)

Adrian Ward works is the Programme Director of the qualifying MA in Social Work at the Tavistock Centre, London. His background is in residential child care and he has written extensively about residential care, group care and therapeutic approaches to social work, and co-edited several books in this field; he was editor of the journal Therapeutic Communities from 1999 to 2005.

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