Professionelle Beziehungsgestaltung in der Sozialen Arbeit

Relationship building is the foundation for collaboration between clients and social work professionals. Only a sustainable relationship allows social workers to address problems and develop potential solutions in cooperation with the clients. The book demonstrates how relationships can be established in a reflexive process based on professional reasoning and how social workers can purposefully fulfill their roles in this context. It also explains how communication and setting can be designed to help social workers maintain a balance between poles such as closeness and distance or control and support. Practical examples from various fields of social work illustrate the content and simultaneously highlight differences in relationship building in voluntary and involuntary contexts.