Beyond Skills And Knowledge: Towards A More Human Understanding Of Helping

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Authors: Robert Bland, TAS

Year: 2004

Event: 2004 TheMHS Conference

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Type of resource: Conference Presentations and Papers

ISBN: 0975765302

Abstract: Post-modern and post-structural theories provide a framework for understanding the competing discourses in mental health including the way some discourses are privileged and others are marginalized. The paper specifically examines the competing discourses around the helping process in mental health and suggests that understanding the human qualities of the worker, qualities such as compassion, courage and hopefulness, may provide a balance to a privileged discourse of helping based on knowledge and skills.

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