Social Work Formulation: Principles and Strategies for Mental Health Social Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand

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aut.relation.endpage88
aut.relation.issue1
aut.relation.journalAotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review
aut.relation.startpage75
aut.relation.volume36
dc.contributor.authorAppleby, Jo
dc.contributor.authorCox, Kendra
dc.contributor.authorBlack, Karyn
dc.contributor.authorMarsh, Natasha
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-31T23:02:17Z
dc.date.available2024-10-31T23:02:17Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-21
dc.description.abstractINTRODUCTION: Social workers are important members of multidisciplinary mental health teams and formulation is a core skill in mental health practice. However, there is little published guidance about what strong social work formulation looks like. As a group of mental health social workers, including experienced and recent graduates, we identified this discrepancy between the importance of a social work perspective on formulation and the lack of guidance available to us. We propose some key principles for social work formulation in Aotearoa New Zealand. This theoretical article is designed to encourage our mental health social work colleagues, new and experienced, to engage in formulation that is informed by social work values and knowledge. APPROACH: As a group of mental health social workers, we approached this task with a mix of theory and practice. We conducted a literature review of both social work formulation and Māori formulation, then discussed how these approaches align with the social work knowledge base in Aotearoa New Zealand, social work core competencies, and our experience of mental health practice. From this approach, we identified six key principles for social work formulation in Aotearoa New Zealand. CONCLUSIONS: Strong social work formulation is bicultural, collaborative, strengths-based, ecological, has a social justice lens and is whānau-inclusive.
dc.identifier.citationAotearoa New Zealand Social Work Review, ISSN: 0113-7662 (Print); 0113-7662 (Online), Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 36(1), 75-88.
dc.identifier.issn0113-7662
dc.identifier.issn0113-7662
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/18217
dc.publisherAotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers
dc.relation.urihttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/1104
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers. Creative Commons License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject1607 Social Work
dc.subject4409 Social work
dc.titleSocial Work Formulation: Principles and Strategies for Mental Health Social Workers in Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.typeJournal Article
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