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Exploring The Parent-Family Worker Relationship In Rural Family Support Services : "You Build A Relationship... And Before You Know It You Start Working On The Problems That You Have Got", Elizabeth Reimer
Elizabeth Reimer
Building working relationships with families where child neglect is an issue is well known to be challenging, due to problems in engaging and retaining families and preventing worker feelings of helplessness and hoplessness. Despite this, some professionals achieve successful and effective relationships with such families. This study uses an interpretivist research methodology, principally drawing on hermeneutics and qualitative methods, to explore perceptions of parent-family worker relationships in a sample of regional family support services in New South Wales, Australia.