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Create an image layout with 3 rows of 3 cards, each card depicting one of these psychological strategies: acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, interpersonal therapy, narrative therapy, motivational interviewing, relaxation strategies, and problem-solving therapy. Each card should have a distinct graphic illustrating the named therapy or technique, presented in a modern, educational style.

About this site

The aim of this resource is to support the emerging social work mental health practitioner to be responsive to a person’s unfolding story by being able to easily review FPS therapeutic models and apply them as required – to perform an empathic pivot.

This resource also identifies those elements of social work theory and ethics, that are present in FPS therapeutic models and supports, where-ever possible, a uniquely social work mental health approach to practice.

This resource is for social work students and recent graduates working towards AASW Mental Health Accreditation and private practice using FPS in Australia. This website does not list all possible FPS.

Remove the two people from the image. Keep everything else exactly as it is: retain the buildings in the background, the walls around the sides, and the chairs.

A Social Work Practice

This site defines a social work mental health practice as one that focuses on personal change—a person-centred approach—but acknowledges and addresses the person-in-environment (van Breda, 2023). This includes the systemic social-cultural issues and barriers that the person faces in living the life they want to live and which may require change (Bolton, Hall & Lehmann, 2022).

The four key components of such a social work practice, should:

1. Reflect the unique professional identity of social workers and embrace the values and ethics laid out by professional social work associations;

2. Take a person-centred approach—focusing on supporting the person to change their life;

3. Support the person—through a strengths-based approach—to identify and make changes to the systems and structures in their environment; and

4. Acknowledge that systems and structures are dominant, oppressive and never neutral—potentially requiring political engagement by the person and the social worker to achieve change. (van Breda, 2023)

Make the man's upper body skinny and longer. Make the panopticon in the background more defined. — Visiting the Panopticon ride at Foucault World, Paris, 2025.

References

Bolton, K., Hall, C., & Lehmann, P. (2022). An overview of and rationale for a generalist-eclectic approach to direct social work practice. In K. Bolton, C. Hall & P. Lehmann, Theoretical perspectives for direct social work practice: A generalist-eclectic approach (pp. 26-65). Springer Publishing. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/UWA/detail.action?docID=6608308

Van Breda, A. (2023). Person-centred approaches to social work practice. In D. Hölscher, R Hugman & D. McAuliffe (Eds.), Social work theory and ethics: Ideas in practice (pp. 143-168). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1015-9_5