The methodological
expertise of social workers, while being based on scientific evidence, is only
professionally acceptable when it respects the dignity of the person to whom it
refers. The engagement with that person is therefore both an ethical and a
practical issue in the identification of appropriate methods, and a focus on
the nature of this participative process is essential in social work methodology.
At
the same time this also requires special attention to the evaluation and the
criteria for evaluation of one’s intervention results which need to be built
around the same principles of a critical, interactive engagement with the users
of social services.
- Instructor: Ulrike Loch