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Introduction to Social Work Practice orients the students to the role of the professional social worker. The first chapter delineates the differences between being a good friend and being a good clinician in terms of social/emotional factors, professionalism, and self-disclosure. The second chapter covers techniques for building a trusting working environment that is conducive to processing sensitive issues along with an overview of key therapeutic communication skills. The remaining five chapters detail an easy-to-remember five-step problem-solving model to guide the clinical process: 1. Assessment, 2. Goal, 3. Objectives, 4. Activation, 5. Termination.
Key features include:
- role-play exercises
- brief essay and response questions to build and test key communication skills
- discussion points
- glossary of terms
- diagrams and charts that graphically represent the flow of the helping process.
The workbook presumes no prior clinical experience and uses no technical psychological jargon. It teaches fundamental communication skills while emphasizing key social work values, ethics, and issues of multicultural populations and diversity throughout.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Overview of Exercises
Overview of Exercises
PART I: DEFINING THE PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
- 1. What Does a Social Worker Do... and Not Do?
- Social Work Diversity
- Social/Emotional Factors
- Professionalism
- Self-Disclosure
- Exercises
PART II: MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
- 2. Fundamentals of Communication
- Principles
- Skills
- Emotional Aspects
- Exercises
PART III: THE PROCESS
- 3. Step I - Assessment: Where Is the Client Now?
- Before Meeting the Client
- After Meeting the Client
- Exercises
- 4. Step II - Goal: Where Does the Client Want to Be?
- Rationale for Setting a Goal
- Problems Versus Goals
- Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goals
- Fundamental Attributes of a Goal: SMART
- Supplemental Attributes of a Goal
- Additional Techniques for Identifying a Goal
- Simplification
- Exercises
- 5. Step III - Objectives: How Does the Client Get From Here to There?
- Definitions
- Objectives in Detail: The Strategic Plan
- Specifying Resources: Brainstorming Demonstrated
- Alternate Sources for Assembling Strategies
- Serial and Parallel Planning
- Client Perspective
- Exercises
- 6. Step IV - Activation: Moving From Intention to Implementation
- Five Stages of Change
- Laying the Groundwork for Change
- Social Support
- Homework
- Evaluation
- Identifying and Resolving Problems in Activation
- Exercises
- 7. Step V - Termination: Continuing the Mission Independently
- What Is Termination?
- When Does Termination Happen?
- How Does Termination Happen?
- Termination Need Not Be Forever
- Types of Termination
- Progressive Termination
- Mutual Emotional Aspects of Termination
- Consolidating Gains
- Posttermination Planning
- Exercises
- Appendix A. Sample Mental Status Exam (MSE)
- Appendix B. Diagnostic Terminology
- Appendix C. Documentation, Symbols, and Abbreviations
- References
- Index
- About the Author
Description
Introduction to Social Work Practice orients the students to the role of the professional social worker. The first chapter delineates the differences between being a good friend and being a good clinician in terms of social/emotional factors, professionalism, and self-disclosure. The second chapter covers techniques for building a trusting working environment that is conducive to processing sensitive issues along with an overview of key therapeutic communication skills. The remaining five chapters detail an easy-to-remember five-step problem-solving model to guide the clinical process: 1. Assessment, 2. Goal, 3. Objectives, 4. Activation, 5. Termination.
Key features include:
- role-play exercises
- brief essay and response questions to build and test key communication skills
- discussion points
- glossary of terms
- diagrams and charts that graphically represent the flow of the helping process.
The workbook presumes no prior clinical experience and uses no technical psychological jargon. It teaches fundamental communication skills while emphasizing key social work values, ethics, and issues of multicultural populations and diversity throughout.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Overview of Exercises
Overview of Exercises
PART I: DEFINING THE PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
- 1. What Does a Social Worker Do... and Not Do?
- Social Work Diversity
- Social/Emotional Factors
- Professionalism
- Self-Disclosure
- Exercises
PART II: MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
- 2. Fundamentals of Communication
- Principles
- Skills
- Emotional Aspects
- Exercises
PART III: THE PROCESS
- 3. Step I - Assessment: Where Is the Client Now?
- Before Meeting the Client
- After Meeting the Client
- Exercises
- 4. Step II - Goal: Where Does the Client Want to Be?
- Rationale for Setting a Goal
- Problems Versus Goals
- Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goals
- Fundamental Attributes of a Goal: SMART
- Supplemental Attributes of a Goal
- Additional Techniques for Identifying a Goal
- Simplification
- Exercises
- 5. Step III - Objectives: How Does the Client Get From Here to There?
- Definitions
- Objectives in Detail: The Strategic Plan
- Specifying Resources: Brainstorming Demonstrated
- Alternate Sources for Assembling Strategies
- Serial and Parallel Planning
- Client Perspective
- Exercises
- 6. Step IV - Activation: Moving From Intention to Implementation
- Five Stages of Change
- Laying the Groundwork for Change
- Social Support
- Homework
- Evaluation
- Identifying and Resolving Problems in Activation
- Exercises
- 7. Step V - Termination: Continuing the Mission Independently
- What Is Termination?
- When Does Termination Happen?
- How Does Termination Happen?
- Termination Need Not Be Forever
- Types of Termination
- Progressive Termination
- Mutual Emotional Aspects of Termination
- Consolidating Gains
- Posttermination Planning
- Exercises
- Appendix A. Sample Mental Status Exam (MSE)
- Appendix B. Diagnostic Terminology
- Appendix C. Documentation, Symbols, and Abbreviations
- References
- Index
- About the Author
December 2008 | 304 pages | Sage US
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Introduction to Social Work Practice orients the students to the role of the professional social worker. The first chapter delineates the differences between being a good friend and being a good clinician in terms of social/emotional factors, professionalism, and self-disclosure. The second chapter covers techniques for building a trusting working environment that is conducive to processing sensitive issues along with an overview of key therapeutic communication skills. The remaining five chapters detail an easy-to-remember five-step problem-solving model to guide the clinical process: 1. Assessment, 2. Goal, 3. Objectives, 4. Activation, 5. Termination.
Key features include:
- role-play exercises
- brief essay and response questions to build and test key communication skills
- discussion points
- glossary of terms
- diagrams and charts that graphically represent the flow of the helping process.
The workbook presumes no prior clinical experience and uses no technical psychological jargon. It teaches fundamental communication skills while emphasizing key social work values, ethics, and issues of multicultural populations and diversity throughout.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Overview of Exercises
- PART I: DEFINING THE PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
- 1. What Does a Social Worker Do... and Not Do?
- Social Work Diversity
- Social/Emotional Factors
- Professionalism
- Self-Disclosure
- Exercises
- PART II: MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
- 2. Fundamentals of Communication
- Principles
- Skills
- Emotional Aspects
- Exercises
- PART III: THE PROCESS
- 3. Step I - Assessment: Where Is the Client Now?
- Before Meeting the Client
- After Meeting the Client
- Exercises
- 4. Step II - Goal: Where Does the Client Want to Be?
- Rationale for Setting a Goal
- Problems Versus Goals
- Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goals
- Fundamental Attributes of a Goal: SMART
- Supplemental Attributes of a Goal
- Additional Techniques for Identifying a Goal
- Simplification
- Exercises
- 5. Step III - Objectives: How Does the Client Get From Here to There?
- Definitions
- Objectives in Detail: The Strategic Plan
- Specifying Resources: Brainstorming Demonstrated
- Alternate Sources for Assembling Strategies
- Serial and Parallel Planning
- Client Perspective
- Exercises
- 6. Step IV - Activation: Moving From Intention to Implementation
- Five Stages of Change
- Laying the Groundwork for Change
- Social Support
- Homework
- Evaluation
- Identifying and Resolving Problems in Activation
- Exercises
- 7. Step V - Termination: Continuing the Mission Independently
- What Is Termination?
- When Does Termination Happen?
- How Does Termination Happen?
- Termination Need Not Be Forever
- Types of Termination
- Progressive Termination
- Mutual Emotional Aspects of Termination
- Consolidating Gains
- Posttermination Planning
- Exercises
- Appendix A. Sample Mental Status Exam (MSE)
- Appendix B. Diagnostic Terminology
- Appendix C. Documentation, Symbols, and Abbreviations
- References
- Index
- About the Author