Making a Difference Again: How Using Coaching Enabled Children’s Social Workers to Enhance their Practice & Fulfil their Vocational Aspirations
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: There is a dearth of empirical research and conceptual work on the application of coaching within social work.This research used focus groups and semi structured interviews to explore whether using coaching could equip social workers with greater confidence in their ability to make a positive difference to the lives of service users in a family support and child protection service.Using coaching to facilitate service users' own change agendas and self-determined goals transformed elements of social workers' everyday practice.The experience of cocreating transformational change through coaching positively re-connected social workers with their professional values and rejuvenated their vocational drive.
DOI: 10.24384/rvjp-r583
Author: Triggs, Suzanne
Language: English
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3032550451