The Social Work Process

Social workers traditionally use a series of steps or processes to helpclients resolve their problems. These steps include collecting informa-tion about the client (assessment),making sense out of the information(diagnosis), collaborating with the client to develop a plan to changethe problems being experienced (the treatment plan), and determiningwhether the Process has been helpful (evaluation). We use two very pow-erful approaches to help the client change: (a) the helping relationship wedevelop with the client and (b) using one of the five or more helpingapproaches described in the prior chapter.

two sections and summarize the most relevant information into a brief statement. A diagnosis often suggests a label defining what the client’s problem is. However, words such as schizophrenic (mental illness) and bipolar disorder (manic-depressive behavior) have powerful negative meaning in our society,

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