Social Work - Another Way

Free Tools and Resources for Solution Focused and Goal Oriented Social Work with families, children and parents

 

Solution focused social work is a social work that works alongside clients, carers, parents, families and children, to help them to explore their strengths and to find their own solutions. Positive human change demands creativity, hope and imagination. Solution focused social work enables people to see better futures, focus on positives, accept strengths and use those strengths and that vision to move forward to a better life.

What you pay attention to in life gets bigger and so this site is about doing solution focused social work with families, parents, carers and children. Social work - another way.

 


New! Kids Need... Click here to Read More

Parenting Cards for Families and the People who Work With Them

by Mark Hamer

 

Can be used with parents to explore their perceptions of what children need,

or with children to explore and reinforce their positive values and beliefs.

 

" ... a simple yet effective tool for practitioners and highly recommended ... cannot criticise this set of cards in any way... provides a more informal method of getting information in a non-threatening manner." CAFCASS

 


 

Resources

Read the reviews and shop for vital Social Work tools including:

 

- Kids Need...

- The Barefoot Helper

- Preventing Breakdown

  Helping People to Change

- Exploring the Truth

- Valuing Creativity

- Motivational Interviewing

- Crisis Intervention

- How to Fail as a Social Worker

- What is Healthy Food

- A Hippocratic Oath for Social Workers

 
         
 

Free Tools

Free Downloads...

 

- Strength Cards

- Value Cards

- Goal Cards

- Free Parenting Book

  About Us

 

- About Option 2

- My Illustrations

- About Me - a Blog, mostly about food.

 

 
         
 

Other Useful Stuff

 

If you want to build a ship,

then don't drum up men to gather wood,

give orders, and divide the work.

Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it,

but to enable it. 

 

From 'The wisdom of the sands'

by Antoine de saint-Exupery.