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Building Relationships With Our Clients Through Engagement Strategy Essay

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Family of Origin Our main goal in social work is to build relationships with our clients through engagement strategy. We, as social workers, have to build a rapport with our clients before we can help our clients problem solve life’s challenges. Sometimes what our clients disclose to us hits home. Feelings, emotions, memories, stir up inside and this is known as countertransference. Exploring our family origin can be helpful to us as social workers when dealing with countertransference. Examining our families of origin and understanding our “place”/role in our family units may effect how we treat our clients. As we explore our family origins, we see where the setting of healthy boundaries may have been beneficial. With this new insight, we see that the setting of healthy boundaries is a necessary and useful tool in social work.
Boundaries
Research tells me that the family unit I grew up in is the training ground for how I learn about boundaries (Cite). If healthy relationships were modeled for us as children, this should be carried out into the child’s adult life (Cite). Due to the alcoholism of my father, boundaries in my family (mother, father, three older brothers and myself) were a combination of clear, rigid, and diffused. The basic parenting roles in the family were more or less traditional in that my mother did everything domestic and my father did everything financial. My mother basically raised the kids and my father made the money and paid the bills. My

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