He refers to the recent ‘roller-coaster career’ of relationship-based practice, with the hope held out of a ‘slight renaissance’ today. This book provides a shining light on such a renaissance,… Click to show full abstract
He refers to the recent ‘roller-coaster career’ of relationship-based practice, with the hope held out of a ‘slight renaissance’ today. This book provides a shining light on such a renaissance, pulling together many diverse approaches, some of which have been set at odds with each other in the past, and demonstrating through applied case studies their essential cohesiveness and rootedness in the relationship and psychosocial engagement between practitioners and users of services. There is no virtue in extolling relationship-based practice within a vacuum of evidence. Stevenson (2013), at the end of her long and distinguished career, reflected upon the near demise of a psychoanalytic approach in social work that aligns with the approach taken by Megele, and pleaded:
               
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