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Supporting Social Workers
Journeys towards becoming
Intimate Authoritative Solution
Oriented Practitioners
Marva Furlongue-Laver M.Sc..
Team Manager D-BIT West
PREPARATION FOR THE HOME VISIT
THE HOME VISIT IS THE CORE OF SOCIAL WORKMANAGEMENT DECISION
GUIDING PRINCIPLE – TEAM’S ETHOS - Due to the brief nature of Solution Focus as an intervention and D-BIT as a service we have to capitalise on the time that we are engaging with the family and as such perform our duties in a focused succinct manner. Meaning when with the family we will multi-task.
As a social worker we are required to engage in Child Focus Parent respecting authoritive social work; which means that we sometimes have to redirect the family and we have to engage in activities that are more administrative initially to allow the opportunity to engage in therapeutic work in the follow-up visit.
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PREPARATION FOR THE HOME VISIT
ASSIGNMENT OF CASE TO WORKER - PRE-VISIT REFLECTION
• WHAT’S THE WORKER’S STATE OF MIND AND BEING?
• WHAT IS THE WORKER BRINGING WITH THEM – D-BIT’S
VIEWS ETHOS?
• WHAT IS THE TASK THE WORKER HAS TO DO?
• WHAT WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THE LANGUAGE THAT THE
WORKER WILL BE USING WHEN THEY GET TO THE HOME?
1. SOLUTION ORIENTED
2. CHILD CENTERED
3. INVOLVE PARENTS IN A RESPECTFUL AUTHORITIVE WAY
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USE OF SOLUTION FOCUSED CONSULTATION
Guiding Principle:- Professor Harry Ferguson
of the University of Nottingham in reference
to What does the practitioner do with the
time they have? If they have all the time,
what would be the best use of the time? The
home visit is at the core of Social Work –
What’s the worker’s state of mind and
being? What are they bringing with them;
what the task they have to do is
SOLUTION FOCUSED CONSULTATIONS -
TO SUPPORT INTIMATE FLOWING PATTERN OF
WORK WITH FAMILIES
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• Two strands to consultation:-Providing each member of staff
an additional layer of support in that:-
• These forums create Group responses and support a balance
of power, anti-oppressive work and Autonomy from
Management
1. Initial - The utilisation of self as an aid to the professional
task
Social Worker engage in reflective solution oriented talk
2. Follow-up – Reflection on the Contact with the Family
SOLUTION FOCUSED CONSULTATIONS
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Aims of The Initial Consultation are:
• To facilitate the Worker’s development as a Solution Focussed
Practitioner
• To provide a forum for the Worker to engage in Intimate
Reflective Social Work practice
• To provide a forum in which the worker prior to initiating work
with the family will engage in reflection to include possible
“Pitfalls to them remaining solution oriented” when working
with families
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SOLUTION FOCUSED CONSULTATION
Potential Pitfalls could be: -
Problem Talk- Focus on the solution and the
first signs of it appearing. This can shortcut
many hours of fruitless delving into the
problem
Use of Why and What which can lead to
problem focus talk, use Instead of
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POST VISIT – REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION TIME
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During supervision using as my guide the information
received from Professor Harry Ferguson of the University
of Nottingham in reference to What does the practitioner
do with the time they have? If they have all the time, what
would be the best use of the time? The home visit is at
the core of Social Work – What’s the worker’s state of
mind and being? What are they bringing with them; what
the task they have to do is.
Barry Mason - Having a Dyad Thinking Systemically
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POST VISIT REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION
The following question will assist you in maximising the use of the
consultation process:-
• What are your best hopes from our consultation today? What will you
take away from this consultation that will be beneficial to you in creating
more value in your roles as a Solution Focused Practitioner?
• Which of all your ideas is most likely to enable that?
• What would delight you to hear the families you support say a few days
or weeks after this consultation that you are doing different?
• Which of your many ideas is most likely to allow that to happen?
Barry Mason - Having a Dyad Thinking Systemically
• DID YOU FIND WORKING WITH THE FAMILY DIFFICULT?
• IF SO HOW COME – WHAT’S GOING ON WITH ME
• HOW AM I CONTRIBUTING TO THIS IMPRESSON OF THIS
FAMILY?
SUPPORTING THE WORKER IN TAKING THIS RELATIONAL
RISK AT THEIR OWN PACE
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POST VISIT REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION
When we grow up in our culture we are brought up with messages about how we cope, sometimes the messages are how to do things within our families.
• To provide support for the worker in examining hidden messages which they have brought from their own families and other work background which may shape their thinking about the families and their way of working with the families. Do they still have the same views now or has it changed?
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POST VISIT REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION
Ferguson, Harry “Towards Intimate Child Protection Practice”
Mason, Barry “Towards Positions of Safe Uncertainty”
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