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Hazardous situations where protection is needed arise in various ways. Some are acute, and events occur which generate risk of damage. The events fade and so does the risk. In other circumstances, the risk is chronic and there are always factors which might cause damage. Yet again, others are deteriorating. The social worker is aware that circumstances may arise when risk is a serious factor, because the client's life is changing so that such circumstances are increasingly likely. The sort of protection which might be afforded would be different in each circumstance.

The following discussion concentrates on enabling clients, but with suitable adaptations most of it can apply equally well to colleagues, agencies and others - the concepts are the same and will be used similarly later on. Enabling is a fairly minimal, non-directive activity. In fact social workers like the word because it implies allowing clients freedom of action and decision while permitting some valid contribution of their own. There has been a problem of defining quite what the concept of enabling means.

It is exhortative rather than prescriptive; it is defined by intent rather than procedure. And it relies primarily on subtle interactions between work and client. From this statement, four criticisms may be identified. First, support does not attempt to move the client forward, but Making the Best of the Client's Resources 37 merely attempts to maintain him at his present level of functioning. As a form of therapy of benefit to the client, therefore, it may be regarded as strictly limited. Second, it is a vague concept which has not been clearly defined.

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