极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Podcast: What skills do social workers need for strengths-based practice?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Steve Myers

Steve Myers — Thu, 30 May 2019 12:36:39 +0000

It is great to see Strengths-based approaches going mainstream in adult work. I have used solution focused approaches in my social work practice and in teaching SW students and practitioners for many years, and it is clear that the principles and practices of SF fit the description of Strengths -based work prefectly.

i would argue that the SF approach provides humane and inherently anti-oppressive practices that are helpful for people and practitioners who want to be Strengths-based.

For those interested in a more detailed outline of the approach can I suggest Dennis Saleebey’s ‘The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice’ (2013), Boston, Pearson, which is unaccounably missing from the Practice Handbook.

Guy Shennan’s (2014) Solution-Focused Practice: A Framework for Effective Communication to Facilitate Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan is also a must, and I would shamelessly promote ‘Using Solution Focused Practice with Adults in Health and Social Care’ (2017)
Jessica Kingsley by Judith Milner and me.

Cheers

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 28 May 2019 17:51:12 +0000

Strengths based needs assessment, basic social work. Unfortunately, now it is code for cutting POC

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Disillusioned

Disillusioned — Tue, 28 May 2019 10:45:22 +0000

Yes, you are correct John that these models of practice have been delivered for years so is there any relevance of pushing this by the government.

Unfortunately, it is. I don’t know about adult services but in children services, particularly child protection the organisation has no clue of such model of practice and if they profess to follow relationship based practice, it is only tokenism to evidence that on their records but not with real humans.

Social Care, particularly child protection practice is devoid of compassion, humanity and integrity.

There is a culture of blame – blame parenting/ carers when the children are not doing well, are making wrong choices.

Blame the front line worker when anything goes wrong.

Management blame the cuts and the system, very conveniently, when you are responsible.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Fri, 24 May 2019 14:45:42 +0000

Yet again another re packaging of old school theories to fit the current resource based models being pedalled by the government . Practitioners like myself 25 years on have been delivering this model of practise for years. I really object to the teaching us to suck eggs approach that many young managers and practitioners who are career practisers push . Invariably these models are pushed at the adult teams using care management . More specialist teams in mental health working in multidisciplinary formats have been delivering this style of practise for years. What stops us delivering is a lack of funding , resource cuts and managers pushing the rebranding of old skills and not respecting what seasoned practitioners offer .