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How to Overcome Obstacles in Mediating Parallel Help for Client?

Libor Musil

Abstract:
The article is devoted to the question: “How to overcome difficulties that hinder to mediate parallel help of another helping worker so that client is able to cope with obstacles to reaching aims of his or her cooperation with social worker?” The author defines three kinds of obstacles to participation of actors (i.e. social worker, client and parallel helper) in arranging parallel help: lack of notion of parallel help, lack of motivation to participate in it and restraints to contact with other actor of parallel help. Each of the three chapters is devoted to one of the aforementioned actors, to their obstacles to parallel help and to substantiation of ways to get over these obstacles.

Keywords:
parallel helping, intermediation, execution obstacles, ways of dealing with

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