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Beginning at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, task-centered practice (TCP) is a four step process that trains social workers to work with clients in establishing specific and achievable goals based upon their concern for therapy. Through this model, social workers empower clients to drive their therapy by asking what they most want to work on to address ...
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Task-centred social work was developed by social workers Laura Epstein and William J. Reid (1972). It emerged out of several ideas that had been growing in popularity in the 1960s (Fortune and Reid 2017). John Dewey’s systematic, rational and action-oriented approaches to problem solving were influential and combined with Helen Perlman’s (1957) Soc...
Strengths-based social work appears to be the most prominent social work practice approach currently. A Google Scholar search for the terms “social work” and “strengths based” or “strengths perspective” over the past 10 years generated approximately 20,000 hits. Van Breda and Addinall’s (2021) survey of clinical social workers in South Africa found...
Relational social work is an increasingly recognised social work practice approach. It may be contested whether it was developed or appropriated by social workers. Regardless, there is now a coherent body of practice theory termed “relational social work,” though not as prolific as the other three approaches covered in this section. A Google Schola...
Narrative therapy is the last practice model originated by social workers that will be considered in this chapter. It was pioneered by Michael White, together with David Epston, Australian and New Zealand social workers respectively. They began developing and writing their thinking about alternative approaches to social work practice in the early 1...
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Jul 17, 2024 · The future of person-centered social work in a technological age will likely involve a hybrid approach, blending in-person and digital interventions to best meet each client’s needs. This could involve using technology to enhance accessibility and provide additional support between sessions, while reserving in-person interactions for deeper therapeutic work.
Jul 15, 2008 · The social worker's role is to assist clients achieve greater congruence between their real self, self-concept, and ideal self. PCTs theoretical principles resonate directly with core values inherent in social work's ethical standards. Carl Rogers has been hailed as on of the most influential theorists and therapists in the 20th century.
- Michael J. Holosko, Jeffrey Skinner, Ra'Shanda S. Robinson
- 2008
The National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics clause 1.02 identifies self-determination as a key guiding principle in social work practice (NASW, 2017). Although NASW does not provide specific procedures for promoting client self-determination, models and processes guiding its current implementation are reported in the literature.
The use of self is loosely related to intersubjectivity, described in Chapter 1 in the context of relational theory. The latter concept helps social workers to understand how they and their clients mutually influence each other’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in unpredictable ways during an intervention.
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The principles underlying Carl Rogers' client-centered theory and person-centered approach continue to have an enduring nature. Even if they are not directly attributed to this body of work they provide a major contribution to the helping professions today. The fact that most of the theory and research in the client-centered approach has developed outside of the social work profession is ...
