Examples of these types are listed below:

The principle of Individualization means that every client is unique for the worker. As we know that the client is a person, with a problem in his / her life. He / she is a person with a particular religious beliefs, economic position, social status, and a particular cast.

The tools used in casework are: listening, observation, interview, relationship and home visit. The word “tool”, which immediately produces the mental image of concrete things, cannot be easily explained when it is used as an intangible, non-material entity.

• Legal Issues.
• Criminal Cases.
• Civil Cases.
• Child Custody Issues.
• Divorce Cases.
• Child Support Services.
• Credit Card Problems.
• Bank Problems.

ADVERTISEMENTS: Social work, a service to maintain society’s harmonious functioning, is basically a helping process. It finds a specific mention in the Vedic (Rig-Veda) word, ‘danam’, which reflects the social philosophy of those days to help the needy members of the society.

There are many characteristics of helping relationships such as compassion, wisdom, realness, acceptance, trust, empathetic understanding and respect. With these features and the assistance from their helpers, clients are further able to take responsibility for their own growth and problem solving.

6 stages of problem solving or helping process. 1) intake/engagement 2) assessment 3) planning and contracting 4) treatment/intervention 5) evaluation and 6) termination. during this stage, the social worker makes initial contact with the clients and begin to establish the framework of the helping relationship.

In the practice, the therapeutic relationship can be described in terms of four sequential phases, each characterized by identifiable tasks and skills, and theses phases are: preinteraction phase, introduction phase, working phase, and termination phase (2+4+5).

unit 7 : the three phases of the helping process in social work

• exploriation – building rapport( good relationship) with client.
• assesment – determination of clients needs and resources needed. getting to know the clients expectations and us e this to formulate assessment.
• planning – make goals and define roles then make a contract that they will comply to it.

The Characteristics of a Helping Relationship

• Empathy.
• Accept (unconditional positive regard) for the other.
• Congruence (explicitizing the feelings relevant for the relationship between the facilitator and the person)

Counselling skills support a person’s decision-making or capacity to feel better, without the counsellor imposing his or her own view on what the individual should do or even feel. This is in contrast to what a parent, good friend or colleague might do.

To put. it in another way, a helping relationship. might be defined as one in which one of the participants intends that there should come about, in one or both parties, more appre- ciation of, more expression of, more func- tional use of the latent inner resources of the individual.

The helping relationship Relationship is a human being’s feeling or sense of emotional bonding with another.

Professional helpers who seek services for their own psychological/personal issues increase the potential for positive outcomes with their clients. After all, our professional qualities of empathy, patience, calmness and compassion are closely tied to our current mental health.

Fostering therapeutic nurse-patient relationships

1. Introduce yourself to your patient and use her name while talking with her. A handshake at your initial meeting is often a good way to quickly establish trust and respect.
2. Make sure your patient has privacy when you provide care.
3. Actively listen to your patient.
4. Maintain eye contact.
5. Maintain professional boundaries.

To build a strong therapeutic relationship, in addition to focusing on psychoeducational interventions, increasing insight and adherence to therapy, it is also important to include guidance towards recovery and away from self-stigma.