CYP Now - Resources: Review - A guide to positive intervention

Mark Hamer's previous book, Preventing Breakdown, is a book every social worker should have. It contains guidance on methods of intervention that promote positive change in families in crisis, problem-solving and non-confrontational interviewing, as well as useful, photocopiable tools.

In The Barefoot Helper, Hamer explains the philosophical basis for his methods, and includes chapters on the state of social work, relationships, creating change and explains why your self is the best tool that you have.

Going barefoot is to follow an ethical path, treading "lightly and carefully", causing "least harm" and taking a "green" approach to life and work. It works on the basis that service users are the experts in their own situation and social workers need to both empower and enable them to move in a positive direction.

Hamer's approach is based on science and logic, and focuses on the whole person. It emphasises solutions that build on people's strengths and social workers' relationships with service users.

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