title: Dialogical communication and empowering social work practice.
abstract: How to succeed in facilitating for empowering processes within social work practice is a central topic in both theoretical discussions and regarding its principles in practice. With a particular focus on how dialogical communication can play a part in order to practice empowering social work, through this text the author frames HUSK as a project facilitating the underpinning humanistic approaches in social work. Dialogical communication and its philosophical base is presented and recognized as a means to achieve empowering social work as well as highlighting the importance of the humanistic approach. The author also underscores how HUSK projects in themselves were enabled because of the required collaboration between service users, professionals, and researchers that signified HUSK. This is pinpointed as having potential for a future research agenda as well as pointing at how the outcomes of the projects may impact future social work practice when the goal is to conduct empowering social work.
authors: a Social Welfare Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences , Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences , Oslo , Norway.
authors: Sidsel
authors: S
authors: Natland
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006078:Government Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009664:Norway; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012946:Social Welfare / Q000523:psychology*; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Empowering social work; collaboration; dialogical communication; humanistic approach; trialogical inquiry