By Lisa Miller
Bringing a variety of healing types, with their theoretical underpinnings and abilities, without delay right into a social paintings context, this middle textbook deals a advisor to the appliance of counselling talents to social paintings practice.
`The content material of the booklet is excellent.... The energy lies in its specified program of principles to perform. using the case fabric to demonstrate software is superb and works good' - Helen Cosis-Brown, college of Middlesex
The booklet makes a speciality of 8 crucial healing types and every of those is explored to demonstrate how the underlying conception could be utilized to expert perform. the writer then identifies the major abilities which are hired for the best social paintings intervention. Key positive aspects of the e-book include:
- a pragmatic skills-based approach
- more than a few case-studies drawn from numerous `real-life' settings
- satisfies the benchmark guidance structuring the recent social paintings degree
- end-of-chapter Reflective Questions, suggestions for perform and Tables summarizing the main theoretical recommendations and their applications.
This is an important advisor to bettering verbal exchange talents and intervention with service-users.
Written in a full of life and fascinating variety it will likely be a useful textual content for undergraduate scholars in social paintings. it is going to even be helpful for certified practitioners to reinforce knowing of conversation and the method of swap in the course of the medium of counselling talents.
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However, if we can find ourselves integrating this principle into our thinking with people, then immediately we can free up an avenue of acceptance that might allow people to share with us their own thoughts, feelings and opinions. Skills Component • Recognise where service users seem to have received conditional positive regard and how this can motivate behaviour. • Project a genuine message that we accept the service user as a worthwhile human being regardless of behaviour (see exceptions later in this chapter).
Other rules which need to be thought about prior to meeting with an individual are frequency of contact, worker capacity to be available and reliable, and the purpose of contact. All too often someone experiencing a problem is allocated to us and we make contact, without giving prior thought to these matters. We find ourselves in a turbulent ocean of problems, desperately trying to find direction. This is neither time-efficient, confidence-inspiring nor helpful to a vulnerable person in distress.
The service user takes the lead in the direction of the conversation. We, as social workers, try to stay with the conversation and, at the same time, gain an understanding of the service user’s world at that moment in time. We must be open to the service user correcting our reflections of that which has been perceived. ’ There is no requirement for the practitioner to always ‘get it right’ when offering reflective statements but perceived feelings that are not expressed by the service user would continue to be vocalised by the practitioner, such as, ‘You seem very frustrated by that’.
