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...

From Jessica Kingsley Publishing - Jan 2008.

A friendly set of illustrated cards to be used by parents and carers and those that work with them. This simple but powerful tool will help workers from all disciplines to quickly engage with carers and explore their understanding of what children need. Highlights the things people need to think more deeply about and clearly motivates people to make changes. To be used in a therapeutic setting or as part of the assessment process. A vital tool for all practitioners working with parents and carers. Read More...


	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 - The Miracle Question - Motivational Interviewing - Crisis Intervention - How to Fail as a Social Worker - Building Rapport


	Free Tools Free Downloads... - Strength cards - Value Cards - Goal Cards - Free Parenting Book			About Us - About Option 2

	Useful Social Work Links 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.