| Description |
x, 302 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 6.The practitioner's context -- The organizational constraints to relationally focused practice -- Conflicts between the cultures of clients and professionals -- Every client has a culture -- Accessing complex interpersonal data -- 7.Attitudes determine practice -- Introduction -- Attitudes inform practice: thinking relationally -- Reflective exercise 1 Clarifying your values -- Reflective exercise 2 Thinking about Lennie -- Reflective exercise 3 Separation and connection -- Decision points in relationally oriented practice -- The assessment process -- Summary -- 8.Relationship-building skills -- Getting started -- Addressing the client as a relational being -- Working systemically with individuals -- Bringing In others: conjoint work and its variations -- Being creative with confidentiality -- Advanced relational work -- Role of planners, managers, and supervisors -- 9.Learning to act well relationally -- Working up an etiquette -- |
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Contents note continued: Reflective exercise 4 Leading questions -- A simple relating exercise -- Coaching clients -- Five specific engagements to improve relational capacity -- Mediated forms of relating -- A complex example: working relationship building in a secure setting -- 10.Being an agent of cultural change -- The business of practice -- The practitioner as cultural actor -- Fantasized and complex autonomy -- Can traditional models of practice be relationship building? -- Summing up |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Aims of the text -- Policy and practice -- Origins of the work -- Structure of the book -- 2.Anchor points -- You can't ̀just do it': practical theory -- Social determinants of health -- A process of individualization -- Principles from feminist and critical scholarship -- Generalizing about ̀normal' and at-risk populations -- 3.Isolation and its accomplices -- Are interpersonal attachments necessary? -- Kinship libido -- Loneliness and autonomy -- Social inclusion and social exclusion -- Dynamics of isolation -- 4.How are we getting along? -- Insiders and outsiders -- The experience of individualization -- In and out of control -- Vitamin me -- Can the cycles of loneliness and isolation be interrupted? -- 5.Questioning professional norms -- Painting ourselves into the picture -- Agents of connection or separation? -- Problematic professional norms -- Practice wisdom and the culture of practitioners -- |
| Summary |
"Developed from nearly 20 years' practice and consulting experience, this ground-breaking text challenges practitioners to understand, and work, with their clients as relational beings rather than independent units, whatever the presenting problem might be. The book focuses on an often neglected key condition, that sustainable and accountable personal relationships are a precondition for health and well-being, and argues that there are always opportunities to deepen the quality, and range, of the client's connections with their current and future significant-others. The central concern of the book is to describe practical actions that can be taken by any professional committed to strengthening the relational base of their clients - an agenda that is supported by coherently woven insights from critical theory and social epidemiology. Written in a compelling style and brought to life with more than twenty case vignettes, this original, practical and rich resource offers practitioners usable resources that can be incorporated within many practice roles. Especially relevant to senior students and those in casework, this innovative, timely, multidisciplinary material is ideal for all those who wish to make a practical difference to the lives of their clients."--Publisher's website |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Counseling -- Methods -- Case Reports
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Counseling.
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Counselor and client.
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Interpersonal relations -- Case Reports
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Interpersonal relations.
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Social case work.
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Interpersonal Relations.
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Counseling -- methods.
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Social Behavior.
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| Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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| ISBN |
1847428614 |
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9781847428615 (paperback) |
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9781847428622 (hardcover) |
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