A co-worker approach to working with families

Summary

The co-worker approach offers workers additional armamentarium in working with families. Such advantages may never become manifest unless the workers both recognize possible limitations inherent in team endeavor and develop and even maximize the use of the co-worker relationship.

The impact of the co-worker approach, as compared with other approaches, offers both personal and professional advantages. Personally, the worker engages in a continuing educational, self-awareness, and self-enhancing activity that contributes to his growth as a professional and as a person. The joy of relationships, mutual and reciprocal, is a part of this personal enhancement. Professionally, the promotion of therapy through examination and testing of new knowledge and skills based upon another professional's confirmation enhances the professional aspects of therapy. The use of co-workers further develops new styles of working with and in family constellations.