Working with People eBook
Working with People eBook
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9780195596281 |
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Ebook |
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13 Nov 2015 |
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This book focuses particularly on the following areas of social work practice:
- Applying a multidimensional approach, which not only acknowledges all the dimensions of an individual’s experiences, but also suggests that any responses by practitioners need to be multidimensional, addressing both cause and consequence.
- Drawing on practitioner experiences this book looks at diverse and uncontrollable settings as expected components of practice, rather than as surprises that interrupt a more controlled counselling approach.
- Thinking beyond the first point of contact, this book identifies skills across a range of human service work encounters so that you can move beyond the first interview or the first contact point to your assessment formulations and intervention planning.
- Practising in a critical, reflective way, scenarios and exercises encourage you to think about your own communication style and your approaches to practice with people: how it has developed over your life course, the ways in which it impacts on communication with others.
- New chapter exploring mindfulness skills for social work practice which are relevant not only to our direct work with clients, but also to ourselves for our own self-care
- Integrated case scenarios across many chapters so that you can see the development of skills and interventions, and the diversity of approaches that our practice theories provide us with
- Discussion of ethical decision-making as part of our everyday practice
- Exploration of confidentiality, particularly in relation to situations when it may need to be breached
- Culturally safe practice is given more emphasis throughout the text
- Links with the application of skills in group work and family practice
Contents
Part 1: Framing the Relationship
Chapter 1: Working Towards Change
Experiences of human adversity
Why do we have human services?
Who is involved in human service work?
Core values in the client–social worker relationship
Transforming values into practice
Chapter 2: Understanding Communication and Change
Understanding communication
Communication as a process
Verbal communication processes
Non-verbal communication processes
Individual and collective communication processes
Chapter 3: Theorising Communication and Change
The influences on our listening
Paradigms and worldviews
Theoretical knowledge
Factual knowledge
Stages of change
Consumer perspectives
Practice knowledge or wisdom
A multidimensional approach
Part 2: Forming the Relationship
Using self-disclosure
Part 3: Focusing your Communication
Revisiting confidentiality
Part 4: Focusing Your Interventions: Skills for Theoretically Informed Practice
Strengths and limitations of these approaches
Part 5: Finishing the Work
Authors
Louise Harms is an Associate Professor and Director at University of Melbourne
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