Priority 18 from the Adult Social Work PSP

UNCERTAINTY: What are the most effective approaches to building relationships with people using services and their families? What working conditions enable adult social workers to use such approaches? (JLA PSP Priority 18)
Overall ranking	18
JLA question ID	0074/18
Explanatory note	Not available for this PSP
Evidence	None identified
Health Research Classification System category	Generic Health Relevance

Extra information provided by this PSP
Original uncertainty examples	To what extent is there evidence that social workers are allowed sufficient time to build effective relationships with service users / families with complex needs? ~ Carers and service What gets in the way of building relationships and working closely with people? ~ Social Workers not only reacting in a crisis, time to get to know families so you can identify stress and strains on caring roles and identify stategies. Smart working charities and support groups ~ How much effort social workers put into rapport-building with clients?
Submitted by	Individual survey submissions categorised by Carer, Service User, Other, Group Member, Educator, Manager, Other, Frontline Practitioner, Student, Volunteer. For full details of the type of submitter for each individual question, please see the spreadsheet of data held on the JLA website.

Extra information provided by this PSP

Original uncertainty examples

To what extent is there evidence that social workers are allowed sufficient time to build effective relationships with service users / families with complex needs? ~ Carers and service What gets in the way of building relationships and working closely with people? ~ Social Workers not only reacting in a crisis, time to get to know families so you can identify stress and strains on caring roles and identify stategies. Smart working charities and support groups ~ How much effort social workers put into rapport-building with clients?

Submitted by

Individual survey submissions categorised by Carer, Service User, Other, Group Member, Educator, Manager, Other, Frontline Practitioner, Student, Volunteer. For full details of the type of submitter for each individual question, please see the spreadsheet of data held on the JLA website.

PSP information
PSP unique ID	0074
PSP name	Adult Social Work
Total number of uncertainties identified by this PSP.	61 (To see a full list of all uncertainties identified, please see the detailed spreadsheet held on the JLA website)
Date of priority setting workshop	20 July 2018