The Social Work Relationship: A Transformational Gift

Dear friends and colleagues,
March is Social Worker’s month. Few realize all the historic profession of social work has contributed to the mental health field. I hope you find my tribute meaningful.

by SaraKay Smullens, MSW, LCSW, DCSW, CGP, CFLE, BCD

Social work is the first profession to identify the practitioner’s relationship with our clients and its essential components as the key vehicle that leads to hope, awareness, change—and in many noted cases, transformation. The relationship is devoid of superiority and condescension. Clients are not viewed as sick or “less than,” “in treatment with” a healthy paragon of knowledge and virtue. Social workers deeply believe that each client is capable of finding meaning, fulfillment, and integration of the importance of self and mutual respect…

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