(Murphy, Duggan, & Joseph, 2013) agrees with Morley and Ife stating that communication skills are essential to carrying out good quality social work practice. However, (Murphy et al., 2013) argue that the person-centered style of practice is incompatible with modern social work. Whilst they do agree with the ideologies of relationship-based practice, they argue that a ‘Psycho-dynamic’ style of social work practice is more applicable. (Murphy et al., 2013) state that the difference between Psycho-dynamic, and Person-centered is simply how the relationship is used in social work practice. Person-centered social work practice uses relationships as the end goal of the practice. This allows the client more flexibility with the direction of the sessions
