Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: Some years ago, I used to help with the training of social workers at the University of the West Indies. I felt then that some of the assumptions on which we based the training were faulty. I felt, for instance, that clients come to social workers and the agency because the problem-solving strategy they have been using has broken down. What they require from the therapist at this point is help in removing the blocks and reconstructing their problemsolving device. Our training seemed to assume that clients come to us naked and that we were to show them the right way. This approach to therapy is time-consuming and potentially confusing. I felt that if we knew the kinds of strategies our clients use to solve their problems, we could meet them halfway and reduce the therapeutic time as well as the psychic pain. So I went into the field in 1975 to look at the kinds of strategies Jamaicans have traditionally used.
Author: Erna Brodber
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2004823871