Social Work and Social Responsibility

Leiby, James

doi:10.4135/9781483326405.n32

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“…From an American perspective, they argue conscious use of self is not a new concept in social work. Various authors (Lee 1983;Leiby 1997;Jacobson 2001) have identified the shift in social work from its early emphasis on social reform to its current emphasis on clinical practice also appears to have shifted the focus from conscious use of self at multiple levels of intervention to self-awareness within a one-on-one helping relationship. It has also turned the process from an experiential exploration of 'self' to an instrument of practice.…”

Section: Conceptions Of the Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

The self in social work

Barnard

2015

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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. This discussion is intimately wedded to notions of identity, ‘social’ and conceptions of the self. This discussion will review the major philosophical understandings of self, before examining the ‘self’ in social work. Recently social workers have developed the term ‘use of self’ to indicate important aspects of the professional relationship and how this term is defined rests on how one conceptualises ‘self’.The final part of the paper will examine how social workers describe and involve the self that they bring to their therapeutic and non-therapeutic work. Participants in case-study, narrative accounts describe the self that they bring to their work as individualistic although at the same time stress the relational, positioned, relationship-based self. This examination carries the concept of the self from the notion of self as separate and constant to the self as a process in interaction.

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Section: Conceptions Of the Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%