100279: Provision: Its Unchanging Relationship To The Clinician's Ambivalence

About the Course:

This paper describes the process of provision in social work practice. Since the early history of social practice, the profession has adapted various ideas from psychoanalytic theory that may or may not be helpful to the work with clients seen by social workers. Using case histories and the evolution of practice theory, this paper provides the reader with ways to think about provision as a means of facilitating change.

Author

Rosalyn Benitez-Bloch

About the Author:

Rosalyn Benitez-Bloch, Ph.D.; Social Work Educator and Administrator; Co-authorwith Gottfried Bloch, M.D. Unfree Associations: A Psychoanalyst Recollects the Holocaust, (1999) Los Angeles: Red Hen Press; Private Practice, Specializing in Couples Therapy

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially social workers, psychologists, counselors, and nurses who seek knowledge about intervention strategies. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Describes a social work perspective on provision in clinical practice

2. Describes ways that a traditional frustration model is not practical for the work that social workers may perform