Mezzo and/or Macro
A theory that has often been used with family systems because it brings together information processing and socialization processess; Bandura.
What is a (Mezzo) example of Social Learning Theory?
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The objective of Psychodynamic, crisis and task centered, cognitive-behavioural and systems/ecological theories.
What is Problem Solving?
Describes when therories are combined through agency and team decisions.
What is Managed Eclecticism?
A social worker who might use strengths based theory; working with a specific population.
what is a case manager.
These folx believe that humans are independent, free to follow their own will as part of the world, consistantely in relationships with other humans, and as such we are subjective.
Who are Interpretivist
The Gathering Place, a day shelter for women, transgender individuals and their children experiencing various level of povery, might utilize this theory of practice.
What is (a Mezzo example of) Feminist Theory?
The objective of Strengths/Solution/Narrative and Humanistic/existential/spiritual.
what is Empowerment?
Decisions about this are influenced not only by research evidence, but also by wider policy and the agency's decision-making processes.
What is Practice Theory
A good theory for agencies who help clients experiencing domestic violence, addiction or a house
What is Crisis and Task Oriented Theory
This argument against EBP states that the aims of social work are broad, and cannot be defined in ways that research will allow to provide enough guidance to make decisions that respond to the diversity and complexity of behaviour.
What is (a Mezzo example of) Crisis and Task Centered Theory?
The objective of using Critical, Feminist, and Anti-discriminatory/multicultural sensitivity therories.
What is Social Change?
Known by it's initals EBP.
What is Evidence Based Practice.
In this theory, the social worker would accumulate research, study the outcomes to gain understanding, to that knowledge may be generalized to all other settings; this is currently debatable.
What is Evidence Based Practice Theory?
Paradigmatic, Practical, Epistemology & Research, and finally, Cultural & Political are all know as _____________.
What are the arguments against EBP?
Advocacy and ________________ theory provide a basis for practice in policy development in situations where the client and the social worker become important partners in professional practice (Payne, 2016) because concern for people's capacity to participate and speak for themselves is valued.
What is (a Mezzo example of) Empowerment Theory?
The objective of using Macro practice/social development/social pedagogy theories.
What is problem-solving/empowerment
The term used to describe how we organize our knowledge and thinking about human beings to back up the theories that we use; The major area of debate about social work theory from 1990s to the present.
What is: epistemological
Working as a school social worker it would be beneficial to have a clear understanding of this theory, especially for understanding important cognitive stages for humans.
What is Piaget's Cognitive-Stages Theory
Providing for planned and systemic forms of practice; it is ethical to use methods that are proven to be effective, and it is unethical to use methods on the grounds of practicioner's preferrence all all examples of ________________ for EBP.
What is support/ arguments for using?
The Family First Prevention Services Act is historic reform to the federal Child Welfare System, signed into law by the currrent President.
New prevention activities include services and programs that must meet certain ____ ___ ____ requirements based on that similar to those presented in California's ____ ______ ______Clearinghouse for Child Welfare.
Source: The Family First Prevention Services Act, Children's Defense Fund, February 2018)
What is (a Macro example of) Evidence Based Practice.
The objective of using Empowerment and/or Advocacy theories.
What is Empowerment and/or social change?
These folx believe that the world is orderly and that how it works follows natural rules that we can come to understand.
What is Positivists
In practice, this theory is applied to sessions between clients and practicioners, focusing on positive planning for motivating 'homework' between sessions.
What is Strength's Based Theory?
The significant debate about the role of empirical research evidence in evaluting practice theory remains ______________.
What is unresolved?