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As the first article in this series demonstrated, the role of counselling in social work varies considerably from place to place. As social work educators we are routinely asked by students about the differences between counselling and social work, and 'can social workers do counselling?'. The role of counselling in social work in Aotearoa New Zealand has been a contentious one, sometimes linked to health/mental health social work and the drive for social work professionalisation. Two previous studies in the 1980s (Rochford & Robb, 1981; Sheafor, 1982) indicated that many social workers considered 'casework' and 'counselling' to fall within their roles, but there have been considerable cultural and socio-political and economic changes in the country since the time of those studies. This article looks at the responses of members of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) to a questionnaire which examined beliefs and practice of social workers in relation to counselling within social work. The results show clearly that members of this sample group believed that counselling falls within the roles of social work and that the majority of social workers were doing some counselling within their practice.

Counselling in social work in Aotearoa New Zealand: Social workers’ perspectives and practice