SW 5030: Session 11

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SW 5030 Session 11

• Activating Resources and Creating Alliances

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Overview

• Student Faculty Forum Announcement- next Monday
  4-6 pm
• Last day of class discussion
• The Development Phase Activating Resources
• Interventions Across System Levels
• Developing Alliances through Groups
• Class Presentations
• Exercise 12.1 Validating Clients' Experiences of
  Discrimination

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Activating Resources

• Generalist Skills for Activating Resources
• Maintaining Progress in the Action Plan
• Developing Power
• Changing Perspectives- Feedback
• Managing Resources
• Educating

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Generalist Skills for Activating Resources

• 1. Maintaining Progress
• Implementing action plans
• Enhancing interactions
• Maintaining focus
• Encouraging participation
• Stimulating support with client
• systems

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Generalist Skills for Activating Resources

• 1. Maintaining Progress
• Sustaining Motivation
• Validating the clients reality
• Accepting the nature of change
• Respecting uniqueness
• Matching the clients cultural experience

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Generalist Skills for Activating Resources

• 2. Developing Power
• Promoting leadership
• Recognizing choices
• Locating genuine options
• Magnifying strengths
• Highlighting solutions

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Generalist Skills for Activating Resources

• 3. Changing perspectives
• Offering feedback
• Constructing feedback
• Using narrative strategies
• Guidelines for between-meeting activities
• Following up

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Offering Feedback

• Formulating feedback to Clients
• FINDING THE BOTTOM LINE
• Is there a well formed goal? What is it?
• Are there exceptions? What are they?
• THE FEEDBACK
• Compliments
• Bridging statements
• Task

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Generalist Skills for Activating Resources

• 4. Managing Resources
• Linking clients with resources
• Maximizing client rights

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Generalist Skills for Activating Resources

• 5. Educating
• Role playing
• Training experiences
• Modeling
• Sharing information
• Offering professional knowledge
• Self-disclosing

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CREATING ALLIANCES

• Developing alliances through groups
• Strengthening natural support alliances
• Organizational alliances for service delivery

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Developing Alliances Through Groups

• Groups and empowerment
• Vehicles for personal growth
• Skill development
• Environmental change
• Acquire new perspectives
• Support each other

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Mutual Aid in Groups

• Qualities that promote empowerment (Shulman
  Gitterman, 1994)
• Sharing data
• Dialectical process
• taboo subjects
• All being in the same level
• Mutual support
• Rehearsal
• Strength in numbers

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Self-Help Groups

• Individuals with similar concerns join together
  to be helpful resources for one another
• Creates an empathetic environment
• Provide emotional and social support
• A forum for learning new skills
• Base of power for collective action