Relationship-Based Social Work and Its Compatibility with the Person-Centred Approach: Principled versus Instrumental Perspectives

Murphy, David; Duggan, Maria; Joseph, Stephen

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“…The person-centred principles embodied by the Kansas approach, in which clients are free make their own decisions within an actualising therapeutic relationship, are incompatible with the child protection worker's mandated role (Murphy et al, 2013). Even when involved on a voluntary basis, child protection clients still perceive workers to, at best, exercise a constantly renegotiated combination of hierarchical 'power over' and collaborative 'power with' them (Dumbrill, 2006).…”

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Representing Latinos

Wallace

2014

Political Research Quarterly

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Strengths-based solution-focused approaches are gaining ground in statutory child protection work, but few studies have asked front line practitioners how they navigate the complex worker-client relationships such approaches require. This paper describes one component of a mixed-methods study in a large Canadian statutory child protection agency in which 225 workers described how they applied the ideas of strengths-based practice in their daily work. Interviews with twenty-four practitioners were analysed using an interpretive description approach. Only four interviewees appeared to successfully enact a version of strengths-based practice that closely mirrored those described by key strengths-based child protection theorists and was fully congruent with their mandated role. They described navigating a shifting balance of collaboration and authority in worker-client relationships based on transparency, impartial judgement, attentiveness to the worker-client interaction and the value that clients were fellow human beings. Their accounts extend current conceptualisations of the worker-client relationship in strengths-based child protection work and are congruent with current understandings of effective mandated relationships. They provide what may be a useful model to help workers understand and navigate relationships in which they must reconcile their own authority and expertise with genuine support for the authority and expertise of their clients.

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confidence: 99%

Representing Latinos

Wallace

2014

Political Research Quarterly

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“…For example Ruch (2005Ruch ( , 2012 focussed on reflection and RBSW, Ruch et al (2010) suggest that relationships require openness and willingness to "commit something of oneself " (Ruch et al 2010, p.245) and Murphy et al (2013) focussed on the connections between relationship based practice and person centred approaches to social work. In addition Ruch et al (2010) pointed out that "good relationships take commitment, hard work and imagination and when they work they offer a vulnerable or emotionally damaged person the possibility of encountering themselves in a new and positive way-worthy of another's interest and respect" (Ruch et al 2010, p.246).…”

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Relationship based social work practice: the case for considering the centrality of humour in creating and maintaining relationships

Jordan

2016

Journal of Social Work Practice

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Relationship based social work practice has received increasing attention in recent years. The use of humour has infrequently been considered in relation to social work, and humour use is a neglected aspect in examining relationships in social work. As humour conveys humanity, is grounded in our earliest attachments and in the management of emotions, the purpose of this paper is to consider how humour operates in social work relationships. Importantly humour can help facilitate relationships with service users, and become a tool to help service users, social workers and their colleagues establish relationships.

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“…El autoconocimiento de los profesionales es fundamental desde la perspectiva reflexiva y relacional del trabajo social (Trevithick, 2003(Trevithick, , 2011(Trevithick, y 2014Howe, 1998;Murphy, et al 2013). Un enfoque del trabajo social que implica el uso de uno mismo en el establecimiento de la relación profesional de ayuda y que exige a los profesionales el autoconocimiento y la autoconciencia respecto de sus valores personales y culturales, creencias, tradiciones y prejuicios, así como la capacidad de reflexión para identificar cómo estos valores y creencias pueden influir en su habilidad para establecer relaciones con las personas, y trabajar con diversos grupos de la población y de establecer estrategias de gestión de estas influencias en la realización de una práctica profesional competente.…”

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Autoconocimiento como competencia genérica en el Grado de Trabajo Social - [Self-knowledge as generic competence in social work education]

Delgado¹,

Tello²

2017

La Innovación Docente Como Misión Del Profesorado : Congreso Internacional Sobre Aprendizaje, Innovación Y Competitividad

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Resumen La investigación cuyos resultados se presentan en esta comunicación, tiene como objetivo el análisis del trabajo de promoción del autoconocimiento, que de forma transversal se realiza en el Grado de Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Barcelona en el marco del Proyecto de innovación docente Tejiendo identidades profesionales. Autoconocimiento y Trabajo Social del Grupo Trans@net. Este análisis del trabajo de promoción del autoconocimiento puede contribuir a la mejora de esta iniciativa de innovación docente, así como a visibilizar la importancia de su incorporación como competencia profesional básica en la formación de Trabajo Social y de otros grados universitarios. Palabras clave: Autoconocimiento, competencia genérica, Trabajo SocialAbstract The research whose results are presented in this paper, aims to analyse the work of promoting self-knowledge, which is carried out transversally in the Degree of Social Work of the University of Barcelona in the framework of the Teaching Innovation Project Weaving professional identities. Self-Knowledge and Social Work of Trans@net Group. This analysis of the work to promote selfknowledge can contribute to the improvement of this initiative of teaching innovation, as well as to make visible the importance of its incorporation as a basic professional competence in the social work education and in other university degrees.Keywords: Self-knowledge, generic competence, Social Work INTRODUCCIÓNLos resultados de nuestro análisis del trabajo de promoción del autoconocimiento en el Grado de Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Barcelona son coherentes con la importancia que a nivel internacional 1 se reconoce al autoconocimiento como exigencia para un ejercicio competente y responsable del trabajo social, así como con las experiencias de promoción en los estudiantes de trabajo social del autoconocimiento y la autoconciencia de su identidad de raza, etnia y género, orientación sexual, habilidades psíquicas y estatus 1 En el documento Global standards for the education and training of the social workprofession, aprobado por la asamblea general de la Federación Internacional de Trabajadores Sociales y de la Federación Internacional de Escuelas de Trabajo Social en 2004 en Adelaida (Australia), http://ifsw.org/policies/global-standards/ socioeconómico, en el marco de una práctica profesional reflexiva (Cournoyer, 1996;Heydt, and Sherman, 2005;Knott-Scragg, 2007;Bender et al 2010;Gardner, 2001;Negi, et al, 2010). En este sentido, nuestros resultados muestran la valoración positiva que el alumnado participante en las actividades realiza en cuanto a la profundización de su autoconocimiento y autoconciencia, a nivel personal y en relación la realización de una práctica profesional reflexiva y responsable del trabajo social. No obstante, también se han puesto en evidencia los déficits en cuanto a la conexión y complementariedad del trabajo de las diferentes dimensiones del autoconocimiento, así como las dificultades organizativas y de contexto para promover el autoconocimiento de m...

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Relationship-Based Social Work and Its Compatibility with the Person-Centred Approach: Principled versus Instrumental Perspectives

Cited by 88 publications

References 16 publications

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Relationship based social work practice: the case for considering the centrality of humour in creating and maintaining relationships

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