1st Edition
The Social Workers' Toolbox Sustainable Multimethod Social Work
The Social Workers' Toolbox aims to bring order to the diversity of tools which are so characteristic of social work: assessment tools, practice tools and outcome-measurement tools. The tools described in this Toolbox can be directly put into practice and adapted to the social workers’ personalized approach with their individual clients and their environments. The underlying meta-theory for Sustainable Multimethod Social Work is the ‘PIE-Empowerment Theory’. This theory defines social work practice in terms of the partnership between social worker and client and is aimed at enhancing quality of life through systematically and sustainably addressing human needs and human rights. The multimethod model promotes the flexible combination of well-written evidence- and practice-based tools.
Packed full of useful checklists, the Toolbox is ideal reading for both inexperienced and more practiced social workers. The book provides a solid basis through the use of practical examples. For the more experienced social worker it offers a substantial resource and the means to legitimize a chosen course of action and social work intervention. Schools of social work will be able to use the book as an easily accessible resource for social work assessments, interventions and quality social work management.
Foreword (Neil Thompson)
Preface
Introduction
Overview of the book
Part I The Social Work Approach
1 The three steps Social Work Approach
2 PIE-Empowerment Social Work Theory
3 Social Workers’ Toolbox: overview
Part II Social Work Core Method
4 Non-directive core method
Part III Three survival-focused methods
5 Body work method
6 Practical-material method
7 Trauma work method
Part IV Three affection-focused methods
8 Cathartic method
9 Expression method
10 Ritual method
Part V Three self-determination methods
11 Cognitive method
12 Narrative method
13 Behavioural method
PART VI Six systemic methods –enhancing supportive networks
14 Social network method
15 Relationship based method
16 Family work method
17 Groupwork method
18 Case management method
19 Mediation method
PART VI Four macro-methods –enhancing community resources
20 Monitoring
21 Prevention
22 Collective advocacy
23 Social work research
PART VII Capita Selecta
24 Human Needs & Human Rights as an Ethical Guide in Social Work
25 Social Work and Grief Support
26 Social Work and Unfinished Business Syndrome (UBS)
27 Job stress among social workers: the stress matrix
Appendices: Overview
Appendix 1 Social case work-report
Appendix 2 Self-test traumatic stress (STS)
Appendix 3 Trauma-reaction checklist (TCL)
Appendix 4 Quick scan Unfinished Business Syndrome (UBS)
Appendix 5 Territorial inventory checklist (TICL)
Appendix 6 Facing sudden death by Judy Tatelbaum, MSW
References
Index
Biography
From 1978, Herman J. de Mönnink has held a position as Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, the Netherlands; he is in private practice as a trainer in multimethod social work (MMSW) and a trauma psychologist/grief therapist. He believes that the strength of MMSW is that it effectively meets human needs and human rights of socially, economically and politically vulnerable people.
Herman graduated from the University of Groningen (1976) in Social Clinical Psychology (MSc), where he managed the practice research project ‘Psychotherapy for the Poor’. He published several articles about evidence-based social work methods, grief support and burnout-prevention. In 1996, his first book was published, titled Grief Support, including Unfinished Business Syndrome (UBS) and Therapeutic Photo Confrontation (TPC). For Victim Support Netherlands he trained social workers using TPC for victims of sudden death (by accidents, homicide, suicide, natural disasters, terrorism and aircraft disaster).
In 2004, Herman published the Dutch version of this book titled The Social Workers’ Toolbox: Multimethod Social Work. In this bestselling book he proposed a paradigm shift, working not from a one-method-fits-for-all-perspective but from a multimethod perspective. Herman trained social workers around the world about a flexible combination of 20 well-written social work methods.
