The Professional Helper: The Fundamentals of Being a Professional Helper, Willie V. Bryan, Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas, 2009, pp. 209, ISBN 978-0-398-07889-5 (hb), $51.95, ISBN 978-0-398-07980-4 (pbk), $31.95

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 1649-1651
Author(s):  
P. J. Seden
Keyword(s):  
Professional Helper

“Weep with those who Weep”: Understanding and Helping the Crying Person

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith F. Van Heukelem
Keyword(s):  
Wide Range ◽  
Professional Helper

The expression of pain, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, in the form of tears is often difficult for the professional helper to deal with. However, crying is a God-given gift and a therapeutic outlet. Scriptural examples give us a wide range of situations where crying is treated as normal and expected behavior. The role of the counselor is thus to support and encourage crying rather than to inhibit it or “put it down” as a sign of instability or spiritual immaturity. The professional helper who understands the emotions and responses evoked in him by a crying individual is better able to support people in distress. There are practical ways the counselor can “lower the crying threshold,” thus encouraging the release of tension through tears.

scholarly journals Unaccompanied Young Females and Social Workers: Meaning-Making in the Practice Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1570-1587
Author(s):  
Rachel Larkin ◽  
Michelle Lefevre
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Affective Experience ◽  
Young Females ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Helper ◽  
A Site

Abstract This article considers the role and importance of the intersubjective practice space created between social workers and unaccompanied young females (UYFs)—girls and young women under eighteen years of age, who arrive in a country, not in the care of a parent or guardian, and claim asylum in their own right. The voices of UYFs are under-represented in the literature and there is very little research which considers social work with this marginalised group. Through a study of how UYFs and practitioners in England experienced and constructed each other during their everyday practice encounters, we discuss the potential of the practice space for creating mutual understandings and enabling positive changes. Analysis revealed that their subjective and affective experience of their encounters and of each other, both as individual humans and as representations of particular categories (asylum-seeker/looked-after child and professional helper/agent of the state), influenced how they engaged, communicated, co-constructed understandings of each other and viewed the process and outcomes of the social work contact. We argue for the importance of practice encounter spaces, their distinctiveness from what is written in policy and law and their potential as a site for creativity and change.

scholarly journals Research in physiotherapy – selected problems

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Chudobina ◽  
Anna Pilch
Keyword(s):  
Research Project ◽  
Therapy Effectiveness ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Professional Helper

Abstract Research in the field of physiotherapy creates some controversy. This article seeks to explore and find out the solutions for this issue. Two aspects are discussed: the difficulties in reconciling the specificity of physiotherapy research with methodological standards and the concerns related to patients’ participation in the research. These problems affect the physiotherapists involved in the creation of ethically and methodologically valuable research project. Physiotherapists conducting research struggle to reconcile two sets of values: the role of a researcher and the role of a professional helper. This article discusses the possibility of creating a valuable research project based on the methodological standards within EBM paradigm in relation to the practical aspects of physiotherapy, such as therapy effectiveness and patient-therapist interaction.

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