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CHAPTER SEVENSOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVES& METHODS
Social Work & Social Welfare: An Invitation (2nd ed.)
Key Ideas
Generalist social work practice Levels of practice Skills and roles
Theory in Generalist Practice Person in Environment Ecological Perspective
Ecomap Systems Theory
Empowerment Solution Focused Model
Generalist Practice
Being able to work with a variety of issues of concerns
Being able to work with diverse client systems
Being able to influence change at multiple levels or client systems
Levels of Practice
Micro Direct practice with individuals and families
Mezzo Groups
Macro Organizations and communities
Skills and Roles
Direct services Counseling/therapy, group work, educator
Systems linkage Broker, case manager, mediator, advocate
Systems maintenance and enhancement Organizational analyst, facilitator, team
member, consultant, survivor Research System development
Program developer, planner, policy developer, advocate
Theory in Generalist Practice
Theory: an empirically tested concept used to explain behavior, process, or phenomenon
Theoretical Perspectives
Person in EnvironmentEcological PerspectiveSystems TheorySolution Focused Model
Person in Environment Perspective The social worker perceives each
individual as an interactive participant in a larger physical, social communal, historical, religious, physical, cultural, and familial environmental system
Kondrat, 2008, 348
Systems Theory
Most used theoretical approach in social work
Aids in understanding the multiple and complex lives of families and the systems with which they interact
Can be used with: Individuals within family, group, organization,
community or society Interactions within any of the above groups Interactions between any of the above groups
Systems Theory continued
Enables understanding and use of potential growth in the broad environment
Eclectic and integrative perspective Interactions are influenced by mutual
feedback process Views self as part of the system/process Emphasizes the dual task that is the
purview of social work (PIE)
Eco-Map
Paper-and-pencil assessment tool used to assess specific troubles and plan intervention for clients
A drawing of the client or client family in its social environment.
It helps both social worker and client view client’s environmental context from a systems and ecological perspective
Eco-Map
Helps both social worker and client achieve a holistic or ecological view of the client’s family life and the nature of the family’s relationships with groups, associations, organizations, and other families and individuals
A stressful, conflict- ++++++++ laden relationship
A tenuous, uncertain - - - - - - - - - relationship
A positive relationship _________ or resource
The direction of the giving & receiving exchange or a relationship or resource
Commonly Used Symbols in Ecomaps
Strengths Perspective
Process of increasing personal, interpersonal or political power so that individuals, families and communities can take action to improve their situations
Empowerment
The process of helping individuals, families, groups and communities to increase their personal, interpersonal, socioeconomic , and political strength and to develop influence toward improving their circumstances. (Barker, 2003, 142)
Principles of the Strengths Perspective (Saleeby, 1995, 12-15)
1. Every individual, group, family, and community has strengths.
2. Trauma and abuse, illness and struggle, may be injurious but they may also be sources of challenge and opportunity.
3. Assume that you do not know the upper limits of the capacity to grow and change. Take individual, group, and community aspirations seriously.
4. We best serve clients by collaborating with them.5. Every environment is full of resources.
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