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- Social workers use a common language, emphasize social justice, especially for marginalized groups and clients, and prioritize empathic listening as part of their practice.
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The purpose of this chapter is to explore the concept of the social worker’s use of self, a process of developing self-knowledge that enables social workers to use their personal characteristics and experiences to enhance their work with clients.
- ‘Self’ and ‘Use of Self’ in Social Work: A Contribution to ...
This paper explores the ‘use of self’ in social work and...
- ‘Self’ and ‘Use of Self’ in Social Work: A Contribution to ...
Nov 28, 2017 · This paper explores the ‘use of self’ in social work and what is meant when referring to the concept of a ‘self’. It begins by looking at infant psychological development and theories that attempt to explain how, as human beings, our unique self is formed and what factors play a part in this process. It considers whether experiences in ...
- Pamela Trevithick
- 2018
The use of Self means eficiently and rationally using the knowledge, skills, and values of the social work profession to enhance the well-being of a client— whether individual, group, community, or society as a whole. The notion of self forms the base of therapeutic social work.
- Clinicians’ Description of Self
- The Inevitable Presence of Self
- Self-Enactments
- Humor
- Process Involved in The Use of Self
Clinicians described the self that they bring to their work as individualistic, somewhat relational and as including both personal and professional elements.
All the clinicians reported the inevitable presence of self in their work, attributable to immediate contextual features such as the surrounding office furniture, what they looked like, wore, and so forth. One clinician said At the same time however, most emphasized how they might extend or use their self toward facilitating change. Accordingly, al...
Clinicians reported that who they are as people influenced their work, in varying degrees. At times the self came through in how they implemented a technique, that is, patiently, sensitively or carefully. At other times the technique itself was as a direct result of self, such as the use of humor or verbally disclosing something about themselves. N...
Three clinicians described using humor as part of their daily interpersonal interactions with clients and others. One suggested that the use of humor was closely tied to her ‘personal style’ and while early on in her career she had felt it was ‘unprofessional’ for her to use humor, she is now comfortable in its use.
Different groups were identified in terms of how much each clinician considered it appropriate to involve their self, which related also to the different ways clinicians had of being aware of their self. These differences might be placed in three groups across a continuum from little self-involvement to extensive self-involvement. The first of thre...
- Andrea Erika Reupert
- areupert@csu.edu.au
- 2007
Although social worker’s use of self has been conceptualized in different ways throughout the literature, there appears to be a lack of research regarding how social workers describe and involve...
the experiences of social care workers on the relevance of self-awareness and reflection in their everyday work, in particular focusing on the ways in which social workers incorporate reflective practice into to their work as well as identifying the benefits and challenges for workers in the development of their self-awareness and reflective ...
Social work has a long and significant history in the use of the ‘self’. The first part of this paper is a contextualising discussion around recent reforms to social work. The second part is a historical examination of the conceptualisation of the self in the contemporary era.
