For years anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice have been embedded in the
social work landscape. Thinking beyond the mainstream approaches, this book critically …

Social workers exercise their practice skills by helping clients find strengths and solutions. In
order to comprehensively practice skills for diverse client situations, it is crucial to practice …

Social work students were surveyed to ascertain their attitudes toward and engagement in
two types of self-disclosure (SD), transparency and self-involving. In general, trainees …

This conceptual paper proposes that ecological systems thinking offers unique perspectives
to frame a vision and model for organisational leadership in the profession and wider social …

This thesis explores the essence of the social work relationship from the perspective of the
social worker, that is, the social workers' use of self'. Whilst the'use of self'denotes key facets …

This study explored the relationship between social worker well-being and personal
involvement in expressive arts. I selected interpretive phenomenology, a qualitative …

The beliefs about how to ethically treat those with mental illness have fluctuated
considerably throughout the centuries in the United States. As a part of the community …

'Relationships are, and always have been, at the heart of youth work'(Young, 2006: 62). This
is not something new. To understand the nature of this relationship it would seem necessary …