Generalist Practice
Social workers focus on a problem, may target environment for change, and develops partnership with the client
What makes social work unique?
Evaluation
What is step 5?
A set of orderly, interrelated elements that forms a functional whole
What is a system?
Includes the conditions, circumstances, and human interactions the encompass human beings
What is social environment?
Eye Contact, Attentive Listening, Facial Expressions, and Body Positioning
What are nonverbal behaviors?
YOU as the generalist practitioner
What is has knowledge, value, and skills?
Planning
What is step 3?
Is a secondary or subordinate system-a system within a system
What is a subsystem?
Focus sees people as constantly interacting with various systems around them.
What is person in environment?
Simple Encouragement, Rephrasing, Reflective Responding, Clarification, Interpretation
What are effective verbal communications?
Empowerment, human diversity, and advocacy/social economic justice
What are principles/values?
Assessment
What is step 2?
An individual or symbolic line of demarcation that separates an individual, a subsystem, or a system from outside surroundings
What is a boundary?
Reflects when somethings is communicated or exchanged between people
What are transactions?
I have concerns about you because you are trying to....
What you might say in confrontation?
Professional roles, critical thinking, research informed practice, and planned changed
What are processes?
Engagement
What is step 1?
Having constant dynamic movement because problems and issues are forever changing
What is dynamic?
The natural power of active involvement among people and their environments
What is energy?
Survival Questions, Support Questions, Exception Questions, Possibility Questions, Esteem Questions
What are ways to stress client's strengths?
Micro, Mezzo, and Macro
What are target systems?
Implementation
What is step 4?
Involves mutual involvement and communication with other people and groups in the environment
What is interaction?
The capacity to adjust to surrounding environment conditions
What is adaptation?
Communicate caring, Express client's goals, Describe the discrepancy, Indicate realistic results
What are steps in the confrontation process?