This document discusses the concept of using oneself in social work practice. It explores how social workers apply their personal resources, such as honesty, openness, warmth and creativity, in the process of helping clients. A good social worker understands how to balance their personal and professional lives to build effective relationships without letting one influence the other. Knowing oneself allows social workers to be self-aware and self-knowing, which provides two key attributes - the ability to observe themselves and understand what is occurring internally and externally. The components of using oneself include one's personality, beliefs, relationships, anxieties, and level of self-disclosure.

1. Use of “self” in social work
practice

2. Personal life
Vs
Professional life

3. • Does social worker is professional every time?
• Does personal life influence the practice while
interacting and helping the client to cope with
problem?

4. • A good social worker knows how to control
the overlapping the professional life and
personal life.
• He/she control it for the effective relationship.

5. Use of self
• Use of self is the concept which explore how
do we apply ourselves in the process of
helping client.
Ourselves= personal resources.

6. Personal resources
• Honesty
• Openness
• warmth
• Geunineness
• Creativity
• imagination,
• Sensitivity
• Commitment
• Optimistic act,
• Friendliness
• Positive concern
• Humanity
• Positive energe etc

7. • Knowledge of self allows us to be familiar with
our inner core, our need, thought,
commitments, values, and help us to observe
ourselves along with understanding of what is
going on(Compton and Galaway 1994)
• Use of self provide two attributes to the social
worker
• i.e self aware and self knowing

8. Subject matter of knowing self
• Personal resources
• Self discipline
• Self awerness
• Self knowing
• Skills
• Consciousness
• Who am I
• Self orentation
• Self sufficient
• Self respect

9. Component of use of self
• Personality
• Belief system
• Relational dynamic
• Anxiety
• Self disclosure

10. Social worker use self as
• Social broker
• Social enabler
• Teacher
• Mediator
• advocate