SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships

This article demonstrates the importance of helping clients understand, explore, and develop friendships in social work practice. The nature of friendships is explored. A cross-disciplinary analysis of the literature concerning friendships and their relationship to human health and functioning is...

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Main Authors: Rich Furman, Kathryn Collins, Janet Swanson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indiana University School of Social Work 2003-12-01
Series:Advances in Social Work
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Online Access:https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/47
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SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships
Advances in Social Work
Friendship
social support
social work practice
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Kathryn Collins
Janet Swanson
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title SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships
title_short SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships
title_full SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships
title_fullStr SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships
title_full_unstemmed SocialWork Practice Innovations: Helping Clients Understand, Explore, and Develop Their Friendships
title_sort socialwork practice innovations: helping clients understand, explore, and develop their friendships
publisher Indiana University School of Social Work
series Advances in Social Work
issn 1527-8565
2331-4125
publishDate 2003-12-01
description This article demonstrates the importance of helping clients understand, explore, and develop friendships in social work practice. The nature of friendships is explored. A cross-disciplinary analysis of the literature concerning friendships and their relationship to human health and functioning is discussed. Case examples illustrating the importance of friendships and examples of the conscious use of friendships as a target of intervention are provided.
topic Friendship
social support
social work practice
url https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/47
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