BOOK
Doing Relationship-Based Social Work
Mary McColgan | Cheryl McMullin | John Mclaughlin | James Marshall | Julia Alexander | Mary Henihan | James Todd | Stephen Clarke | Uel McIlveen | Geraldine Campbell | Maria Somerville | Brenda Horgan | Lynn Connor | Adrian McKinney | Paul Harvey | Denise MacDermott | Susannah McCall | Siobhan Wylie
(2017)
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Abstract
Relationships and communication are the foundation of good social work practice. This book offers a new model, drawn from research and practical experience, which describes how to carry out effective relationship-based social work.
Doing Relationship-Based Social Work provides a refreshing and realistic approach to social work practice. The model itself is built around four stages: engagement, negotiation, enabling change and valuing endings. Underpinned by motivational interviewing techniques, strengths focused practice, emotional intelligence and empowerment, the approach is supported by case examples and explanations of the importance of relationships at each stage.
Informative and practical, this book will be an invaluable text for undergraduate and postgraduate social work students as well as all social work and allied professionals committed to enabling positive change.
There is a clear need for a book on relationship-based social work, and how it may be operationalised as a model drawn from research and practice. The book opens up the case for re-establishing relationships in current practices and includes case analyses in a multitude of settings, and a multitude of different voices. By combining an academic and practice focus, and by making relationships explicit in social work through different steps, this book is useful for any student studying social work
Ilse Julkun, University of Helsinki
It is always enriching to see theory and practice in close conversation which this timely book offers - and does so well. The wealth of knowledge and practice experience covered in its pages highlights the central place that relationships hold within social work, and how relationship-based practice can lead to more in-depth understanding and new possibilities to be explored. The multi-disciplinary perspectives offered, and the real-life experiences that it describes make this book unique, memorable - and a pleasure to read.
Pamela Trevithick - Visiting Professor in Social Work, Buckinghamshire New University.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doing Relationship-Based Social Work: A Practical Guide to BuildingRelationships and Enabling Change, edited by Mary McColgan and Cheryl McMullin | 3 | ||
| Introduction - Professor Mary McColgan | 9 | ||
| 1. Building Relationships in Social Work: A 4 Stage Relationship Model - Cheryl McMullin | 15 | ||
| 2. Relationship-Based Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Social Work - John McLaughlin | 32 | ||
| 3. Relationship-Based Social Work in Family and Childcare Practice - James Marshall | 44 | ||
| 4. Building Relationships with Young People - Cheryl McMullin | 61 | ||
| 5. Mentoring Young Offenders in the Republic of Ireland - Mary Henihan and Julia Alexander | 75 | ||
| 6. Relationship-Based Practice: Working with Older People - E. James Todd | 90 | ||
| 7. Building Relationships to Help Improve Mental Wellbeing - Stephen Clarke | 103 | ||
| 8. Building Relationships to Enable Change: A Journey with Service Users and Carers - Uel McIlveen, Geraldine Campbell, Maria Somerville and Brenda Horgan | 118 | ||
| 9. Residential Childcare: Relationships in the Group Care Environment - Lynn Connor, Adrian McKinney, and Paul Harvey | 133 | ||
| 10. The Supervisory Relationship within Practice Learning - Denise MacDermott and Susannah McCall | 147 | ||
| 11. Developing and Sustaining Relationships in Multidisciplinary Working - Mary McColgan | 163 | ||
| 12. Looking Through the Lens at Endings: Service User, Student, Carer and Practice Educator Perspectives on Endings within Social Work Training - Siobhan Wylie and Denise MacDermott | 177 | ||
| Author Biographies | 193 | ||
| Subject Index | 198 | ||
| Author Index | 202 | ||
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