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Jan 1, 2017 · The principles and key ideas of Relational Social Work Relational Social Work, vol. 1, n. 1, April 2017 he becomes more autonomous and active in dealing with the situation. This operation is not zero-sum. The power surrendered is not lost but ‘invested’ in social relations so that it yields high-interest returns for the social worker.
Mar 12, 2007 · Relational social work engages with existing networks to enhance their resilience and capacity to resolve difficulties. It does this by addressing the identified problem, and by engaging, mobilising and developing both supportive and problem-solving networks. These networks can include family members, friends, teachers and any other significant ...
- Fabio Folgheraiter
- 2007
- Key Points
- History
- A Philosophical Basis For Relationship-Based Practice
- Care Ethics
- Relationship-Based Practice and Policy
- Features of Relationship-Based Practice
- A Sense of Purpose
- Relationships and Change
- What Clients Want
- Professionalism and Relationships
There are compelling philosophical, policy and practice reasons to put relationships at the heart of social workThe importance of relationships is increasingly recognised in ‘people work’ but especially in social work and social care, across all domains of practiceEffective relationships are central to successful outcomesCurrent policy directions in Scotland are rooted in the need for effective personal/professional relationshipsThe roots of an emotional dimension to social work can be traced back to the psychoanalytic and psychosocial models that emerged in the mid-20th century (Horney, 1950; Rogers, 1961; Hollis, 1964), which highlighted the importance of previous experiences and how emotions are managed and understood through relationships. At another level, Biestek’s (...
RBP is not technical, instrumental or methodological but confronts central philosophical questions around who we are and how we are with others. Philosophers have grappled with such questions over the years. Since the Enlightenment, that period of scientific and philosophical advance that swept Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, which signalled...
Care ethics have become an influential strand of moral philosophy. Gilligan (1982) identified two different approaches to moral reasoning: ‘a male voice’, associated with qualities of reason and objectivity and a ‘female voice’ drawing on intuition, compassion and an appreciation of context. Since then, interest has grown rapidly and the scope of c...
Increasingly, RBP can be found to resonate with the direction of Scottish public policy set out in the report of the Christie Commission (Scottish Government, 2011). This emphasises the need to move away from a top-down ‘expert’ culture towards one that seeks the views and involvement of individuals and communities, through what might be identified...
RBP draws on psychodynamic ideas, most closely associated with Sigmund Freud and developed by others. These explain human personality and functioning in terms of conscious and unconscious desires and beliefs, feelings and emotions, based on life experiences, including early childhood. While RBP does not require a sophisticated understanding of the ...
To stress the centrality of human relationships in social work is not to say that these are, in themselves, sufficient to ensure good practice. Relationships are not intrinsically good or bad – they can be either. They certainly shouldn’t be indiscriminate in the way that they are entered into or develop. They exist in a (mandated) context and are ...
Social work as a profession is premised on a notion of promoting positive change in clients’ situations as set out in the International Federation of Social Workers’ (2014) definition. Beckett and Horner (2006) tell us that change comes about through relationships. Even in situations where programmed interventions are employed, their impact is seco...
The literature gives clear messages of what clients value. A good social worker is experienced as a ‘friend’ and an ‘equal’ (MacLeod, 2008); clients look for ‘ordinary friendship’ where they meet on equal terms (Halvorsen, 2009). Beresford and colleagues (2008) (re)introduce the idea of friendship within the client/worker relationship. Their concep...
A renewed emphasis on relationships challenges many of the assumptions that have built up over what it is to be a professional. Professionalism is often associated with certainty, expertise and theoretical knowledge (Brodie and colleagues, 2008). Noddings (1996), however, distinguishes between professionalism and professionalisation. She suggests t...
Relational social work considers the helping process and the well-being development as co-constructions, in which the contributions not only by the helper (or the caregiver, or the social worker ...
Key points. • There are compelling philosophical, policy and practice reasons to put relationships at the heart of social work. • The importance of relationships is increasingly recognised in ‘people work’ but especially in social work and social care, across all domains of practice. • Effective relationships are central to successful ...
Apr 1, 2017 · Relational Sociology – Relational Social Work – Civil Society – Social Agency – Welfare System. Introduction Relational Social Work (Folgheraiter, 2004a; 2007; 2011) is a social work approach that drew its inspiration, direction and scientific foundation from the relational conception of sociology and social policies developed in recent decades by Pierpaolo Donati.
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Definitions of relational social work practice. An agreed definition of relational social work practice is hard to come by (Ruch, Turney & Ward, 2010; Megele, 2015) but perhaps the best articulated is from Tosone (2004, p. 481) who states ‘relational social work is the practice of using the therapeutic relationship as the principle vehicle to ...
