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    The document discusses the purpose and nature of the casework relationship. The casework relationship aims to help clients meet basic psychological needs, solve problems related to social functioning, and maximize their potential. It involves creating an atmosphere where clients can effectively address diagnosis and treatment. The relationship is interpersonal in nature and focuses on environmental changes and conscious personality problems. Transference, countertransference, and maintaining reality are important components of the relationship.

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    Casework Relationship

    Soc Wk 224
    PURPOSE

    • To help the client meet a basic need, usually


    psychological in nature, or to solve a problem
    involving the person’s social functioning;

    • Creating an atmosphere in which the client


    feel free to engage effectively in the study,
    diagnosis and treatment.

    • Maximizing the potentials of the clients.


    Nature of the Casework Relationship

    1. An art /science of human relationship

    2. Used to mobilize capacities of individuals and


    resources in the community

    3. Help the client have a better adjustment

    4. CW help a person meet a problem, feel a problem


    and receive a service

    5. Mobilization of dormant capacities in the individual


    or mobilization of appropriate community resources
    Essence of the Casework Relationship

    1. CW deals intimately with people

    2. Knowledge of human nature and of the individual


    is important

    3. CW relationship is interpersonal relationship.


    Material things are important but relationship
    gives more satisfaction.

    4. CW relationship is the dynamic interaction of


    attitude and emotions between CW and the client
    adjustment to the environment and self
    Difference of Casework Relationship

    1. It is temporary

    2. Emotional component is not so deep and penetrating

    3. Equality and mutuality is absent (Casework is giving


    help- client is recipient)

    4. In Casework - client does not only cooperate but help


    herself/himself

    5. Casework is directed to environmental changes and


    personality problems on the conscious level
    THE RELATIONSHIP COMPONENTS

    1. TRANSFERENCE

    • client’s displacement on the worker of the particular feelings and attitudes


    he may have experienced earlier in life in relationship with the members of
    his family, such as his father and/or mother or significant others

    • client responds to and relates to the worker in the manner that he used to
    react to that familiar figure

    • reaction is generally at the unconscious level

    2. COUNTER-TRANSFERENCE

    • relationship reactions which the worker may project on the client

    • reaction is unconscious and not reality-based

    • feelings and attitudes displaced are like emotionally biased and prejudiced
    3. REALITY

    • The state of what is actual, what is, and what


    is true

    • It is only when the client and worker hold


    realistic and objective perceptions of existing
    conditions as well as each others’ roles and
    responsibilities in their relationship structure
    that the relationship will hold long enough to
    attain its objectives

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