Clinical practice: treating the non-voluntary client

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Agencies often treat non-voluntary clients on condition that the clients acknowledge their problems the way these problems are defined by others. They can also use legal authority to ascertain cooperation from a non-voluntary client by threatening to turn the case over to the court. This sort of non-voluntary situation negates the need for an intervention based trust and recognition approach. Practitioners can combine therapeutic work with social control in treating non-voluntary clients. However, there is a need to develop specific models of intervention.

Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Corrections, Counselor and client, Counselor-client relations

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Functional reciprocity of organizational management and social work practice

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There is a direct connection between effective social work and the quality of administration. When managers have no background in social work this impacts the organization's effectiveness. Social work students should be taught some management strategies to ensure that social work organizations can have managers with relevant background.

Analysis, Management, Social work administration, Social services administration

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Measuring social work values; a cross-cultural challenge for global practice

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A comparison of social work values across cultures is given. A group of 128 social workers representing more than 25 countries is compared using the Professional Opinion Scale. Value scores indicate that social workers from different cultures all support self-determination and share a repect for basic rights.

International aspects

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