Social Work History
To promote human and community well-being…
What is the purpose of the social work profession?
working on one-to-one basis with an individual
What is the micro level of social work practice.
A person designated to assume primary responsibility for assessing the needs of a client, arranging and coordinating the delivery of essential goods and services provided by other resources, and working directly with the client to ensure that the goods and services are provided in a timely manner….(Hepworth, Rooney, and Larsen, p. 45 of Zastrow)
What is the role of a case manager?
Social workers focus on consumer’s strengths and limitations
What is the strengths perspective?
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 and take individual, group, and community aspirations seriously
4. We best serve clients by collaborating with them.
5. Every environment is full of resources
What are Saleebey’s Five Principles of the Strengths Perspective?
an example of early social welfare organization that assisted in coordinating the service efforts of private social welfare agencies (prevented duplication of services)
What is the Charity Organization Society (COS)?
working with families and other small groups
What is the mezzo level of practice.
Not primarily therapeutic (except in broad sense); Objectives, activities, and focuses vary by group
Seeks to facilitate the intellectual, emotional, and social development of individuals through group activities
What is group work?
…Person is in constant interaction with his/her environment, particularly the his/her social environment of family, friends, neighbors, health and social care workers…people can only be fully understood in relationship to their environment…
What is the person-in-environment concept?
a moralistic upper-middle-class older woman carrying a basket of food and having little understanding of the people she tried to help.
“do gooders” bleeding hearts, “radicals” and the like.
What are stereotypes of social workers?
used social group work, social action, and community organization.
Emphasized environmental reform
Settlement houses used social group work, social action, and community organization.
Teaching middle class values of work, thrift, and abstinence
What are Settlement Houses?
working with organizations and communities OR seeking changes in statues & social policies
What is the macro level of practice.
Aimed at facilitating social, behavioral, and emotional adjustment of individuals
therapeutic
What is group therapy?
Subcategory of systems theory
Human beings viewed as developing and adapting through transaction with all elements of their environments (considers internal and external factors)
Emphasis on person-in-environment (stresses that people in our society continually interact with many systems)
What is the ecological model?
Directing the overall program of a social service agency |
Tasks Include Setting program and agency objectives Analyzing social conditions in community Making decisions relating to what services will be provided Hiring and supervising staff members Coordinating efforts to achieve selected goals, monitoring and revising internal procedures to improve effectiveness and efficiency |
What is administration?
Founder of Hull House
Who is Jane Adams?
Enhance the Problem-solving, coping, and developmental capacities of people
Link people with systems that provide them with resources, services, and opportunities
Promote effectiveness and human operation of systems that provide people with resources and services. Roles that social worker might play:
Advocate
Program developer
Supervisor
Coordinator
Consultant
Develop and improve social policy: social workers at this level are planners and policy developers
Promote Human and Community Well Being (particularly committed to alleviating poverty, oppression, and other forms of social justice)
What are the goals of social work practice?
Type of group therapy aimed at helping families with interactional, behavioral, and emotional problems
therapeutic
What is family therapy?
Used from 1920s to 1960s
Developed by Sigmund Freud
Clients/Consumers referred to as patients
Task of provider is to diagnose the cause of the patient’s problems and then provide treatment
Patient’s problems are viewed as being inside of the patient
Emphasis focused on enabling patients to adapt and adjust to their social situations.
What is the medical model?
A person designated to assume primary responsibil- ity for assessing the needs of a client, arranging and coordinating the delivery of essential goods and services provided by other resources, and working directly with the client to ensure that the goods and services are provided in a timely manner; case managers must maintain close contact with clients (including sometimes acting to provide direct casework services) and with other service providers to ensure that plans for service delivery are in place and are subsequently delivered as planned.
What is a case manager?
This organization represents social work in the United States
What is the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)?
Identify as precisely as possible the problem or problems.
Generate possible alternative solutions.
Evaluate the alternative solutions.
Select a solution or solutions to be used and set goals.
Implement the solution(s)
Follow up to evaluate how the solution(s) worked.
What are the steps of the Problem Solving Process?
Goal: to stimulate and assist the local community to evaluate, plan, and coordinate efforts to provide for the community’s health, welfare, and recreation needs |
Activities can include: Encouraging and fostering citizen participation Coordination efforts between agencies or between groups Performing public relations Providing public education Conducting research, planning, being a resource person Other terms for this: planning, social planning, program development, policy development, macro practice |
What is community organization?
Social work has used this approach since the 1960s to assess human behavior
Emphasizes looking beyond the clients’ presenting problems to assess the complexities and interrelationships of the client’s life situation
Based on systems theory
Opposes simple case & effect explanations
What is the systems model?
1. The person and seek to develop his/her problem-solving, coping, and developmental capabilities.
2. On the relationship between a person and the systems he or she interacts with and link the person with needed resources, services, and opportunities
3. On the system and seek to reform them to meet the needs of the individual more efficiently
What are the 3 areas of focus for the social work profession re: the ecological model?