2017.02.28 Often, In Place of Family

Understanding CGC's role in therapy
1. Justification for CGC's existence. Borrowing an idea from Jennifer Sherman's book, Those who work, those who don't (p.77). In crisis, family supplies economic capital that allows their family member to avoid the crisis and the family member is able to build moral capital, that is, respectability in a community: self reliance, contentment with their life, and self-sustainment. For social workers, this is the value of accessing CarefulGiving for clients; the clinician becomes family to a client where there is no healthy family.
2. Implementation of CGC as part of the treatment regimens available to social work clinicians
3. Perpetuation of CGC, funding and feedback to improve the delivery of treatment