Relationship Ruptures

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-105
Author(s):  
Joseph Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Environment

The social worker’s first task with clients is to develop a positive relationship, but as the intervention progresses he or she faces the ongoing challenge of sustaining that relationship so that the client can experience a positive environment for working toward his or her goals. As with all relationships, however, despite the practitioner’s best efforts, conflicts and misunderstandings may develop between the two parties that can threaten their bond and possibly undermine the work being done. The term relationship rupture refers to any event in direct practice that contributes to a deterioration in the social worker/client relationship once it has been positively established. The purpose of this chapter is to help social workers to become more skillful in identifying and repairing ruptures so that the relationship can resume in a productive direction.

Home-based Interventions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan F. Allen ◽  
Elizabeth M. Tracy
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Family Discord ◽  
Home Based Intervention

Home visiting and home-based intervention are two strategies used by social workers when working with individuals or families in direct practice. The basic rationale for home-based work is the benefit to social workers’ assessments and understanding of clients, as well as the benefit of more relevant practice with families who are seen in the setting where difficulties are occurring. Home-based interventions have been shown to be effective in improving health and decreasing family discord. When visiting the home, the social worker has the added responsibility of respecting the privacy of families as a guest in their homes.

Relationship Endings

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-127
Author(s):  
Joseph Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prior Experiences ◽  
The Relationship

All relationships involve a process of coming together, being together, and separating, and people ascribe different meanings to each step in the process. Thus, terminations and transfers can be delicate processes with some clients. The purpose of this chapter is to provide social workers with specific steps for promoting successful endings with their clients. Early learning about separation sets a pattern for how people experience endings, as transitions stimulate reenactments of prior experiences and influence their success or failure. In direct practice the social worker’s management of terminations and transfers can at times ensure the client’s maintenance of goals and positive momentum for a better life, especially when the relationship has been significant to the client.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WELL-BEING AT WORK AND THE PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF SOCIAL WORKERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 971-975
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Huyen Trang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Collection Methods

The purpose of this article explores the relationship between well-being at work and the professional ethics of social workers. The study used descriptive data collection methods. The participants of this research were 396 social workers (female = 276, male = 120) has been working in hospitals, social work service centers, childcare education centers in Hanoi, ThanhHoa and QuangNinh. The study used two Scales to collect data: (i) a design scale of professional ethics shows throughfive aspects (professional responsibility, confidentiality, relationship with client, relationship with colleagues and relationship with organization, society) (ii) Well-being at work Scale of Paschoal and Tamayo (2008). Data were analyzed by correlation and regression calculations. The research results show that the more social worker follow the professional ethics in all 5 aspects, the higher positive emotionsand sense of accomplishment score and the lower negative emotions score.

scholarly journals Cognitive ability and fertility among Swedish men born 1951–1967: evidence from military conscription registers

2019 ◽  
Vol 286 (1902) ◽  
pp. 20190359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kolk ◽  
Kieron Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Military Conscription ◽  
First Child ◽  
Parental Background ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intelligence Scores ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Educational Careers

We examine the relationship between cognitive ability and childbearing patterns in contemporary Sweden using administrative register data. The topic has a long history in the social sciences and has been the topic of a large number of studies, many reporting a negative gradient between intelligence and fertility. We link fertility histories to military conscription tests with intelligence scores for all Swedish men born 1951–1967. We find a positive relationship between intelligence scores and fertility, and this pattern is consistent across the cohorts we study. The relationship is most pronounced for the transition to a first child, and men with the lowest categories of IQ scores have the fewest children. Using fixed effects models, we additionally control for all factors that are shared by siblings, and after such adjustments, we find a stronger positive relationship between IQ and fertility. Furthermore, we find a positive gradient within groups at different levels of education. Compositional differences of this kind are therefore not responsible for the positive gradient we observe—instead, the relationship is even stronger after controlling for both educational careers and parental background factors. In our models where we compare brothers to one another, we find that, relative to men with IQ 100, the group with the lowest category of cognitive ability have 0.56 fewer children, and men with the highest category have 0.09 more children.

Social workers’ attitudes toward human rights in a sample from Taiwan

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yi Chen ◽  
I-Chen Tang
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

The human rights concept is that everyone is entitled to enjoy those rights inherent to being human, without distinction. However, should human rights be considered a self-evident value for the social work profession? This study was to explore how social workers in Taiwan perceive the human rights concept. Responses from 276 social worker participants were analyzed by using a self-administered questionnaire. This study showed that social workers had a general knowledge of human rights. Receiving human rights educational training and engaging in social protests were important variables in increasing human rights awareness for social work practitioners.

scholarly journals METHODS OF SOCIAL WORK MANAGEMENT IN THE ACTIVITIES OF A SOCIAL WORKER

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Maryna Lekholetova
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Management

The article presents an analysis of different approaches of domestic scientists to the interpretation of the concept of «social work management». The author surveys the features of management as an object of governance in the activities of a social worker. Features include the social nature of management information; the need for motivation methods that effectively influences and motivates professionals to better results in social work; availability of social workers' professional competence; the presence of problems with forecasting the results of management in the social sphere; the importance of current and final management results. The author proves the necessity of social workers' self-management skills (time management, motivation, stress resistance and recuperation, development of emotional intelligence) for the effective performance of management tasks in professional activities.  The article highlights the principles that should be followed in solving organizational and managerial tasks in social work management (purposefulness, ability of realization, adaptability, efficiency). The researcher presents the structure of social work management methods in the study (economic, administrative, social counselling, psychological and pedagogical influence, social influence). Research characterizes the methods of social work management while working with recipients of social services (methods of individual social work, methods of group social work, methods of community work, methods of social service design).

scholarly journals Challenging ‘ableism’ and teaching about disability in a social work classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheal Shier ◽  
Carole Sinclair ◽  
Lila Gault
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Training Module ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Work Programs ◽  
Work Education

Social work programs in Canada teach emerging generalist practitioners about the consequences of oppression in the lives of the clients they work with. More emphasis within social work education could be placed on practical ways of contextualizing forms of oppression as each relates specifically to practice. The following provides a description of the oppression of ‘ableism’, and offers an applied training module to help prepare generalist social workers (i.e. current students or direct practitioners) to work with issues of disability as they emerge in their direct practice with clients. The training module helps to facilitate learning specific to the leading theoretical discussions and the social context of disability within society. Through these discussions students might then become more aware of their role as practitioners in challenging the oppression of ‘ableism’, rather than maintain outdated modes of service delivery and intervention with those people disabled by the social environment.

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