Critically analyse counselling in social work

             CRITICALLY ANALYSE ONE METHOD AND/OR MODEL OF SOCIAL WORK. WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CHOSEN METHOD?
             It goes without saying that social work in the United Kingdom is under close scrutiny at these times. Arguably, health and social care professionals are said to require more training, more experience, and high quality study. After all, the responsibilities bestowed upon social workers are great, and in some cases extremely challenging. I have learned that the key to good social work is the integration of theory, practice and values. Critical study of different theories and methods of intervention is essential for application to practice. Here, I will concentrate on critically analysing the role of counselling in social work. As part of the introduction to this critical analysis, I would like to highlight the complex relationship between social work and counselling. As Brearley points out:
             "Counselling and social work are not two separate entities...Both are rapidly changing...As a consequence of this, the interface, overlap, relationship and interaction between them is also continuously being renegotiated."
             The term 'counselling' is used often, especially in the western world. There are school guidance counsellors, marriage counsellors, career counsellors, and a host of others. But how is it best to define counselling, if indeed it can be pigeonholed into a definition? An obvious place to start would be with the British Association of Counselling, who describe it as 'when a person, occupying regularly or temporarily the role of counsellor, offers or agrees explicitly to offer time, attention and respect to another person or persons temporarily in the role of client' (BAC, 1985 citied in Stepney & Ford 2000: 85). Another way of viewing counselling could be to see it as an agreement for communication between two or more people with the aim of increasing the client's sense of we...

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