SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships | Zendy

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SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships

Author(s) -

Rich Furman,

Kathryn S. Collins,

Janet Swanson

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

advances in social work

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2331-4125

pISSN - 1527-8565

DOI - 10.18060/47

Subject(s) - social work , intervention (counseling) , psychology , friendship , discipline , project commissioning , publishing , engineering ethics , social psychology , sociology , social science , political science , engineering , psychiatry , law

This article demonstrates the importance of helping clients understand, explore, and develop friendships in social work practice. The nature of friendships is explored. A cross-disciplinary analysis of the literature concerning friendships and their relationship to human health and functioning is discussed. Case examples illustrating the importance of friendships and examples of the conscious use of friendships as a target of intervention are provided.

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