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An Interactionist View of the Social Work Interview
Joan Fitzjohn B.Sc., Dip.S.W. is a social worker with the London Borough of Ealing. Until January, 1974 she was a student on the Diploma in Social Work Course at Middlesex Polytechnic (Enfield College), and this paper was originally submitted as part of the assessment for that course
Summary
The paper considers the relevance of the five sub-branches of the interactionist perspective to the social work interview and suggests a model incorporating all five. Such a model illustrates how conflict between the social worker and the client may arise and the author tentatively suggests how such conflict may be resolved