Social Work Theory
Written down and debated in the profession and in academic work
What is Formal Theory
Express ways of thinking about the world based on consistent values and principles.
What is Perspective
The idea of social construction comes from
What is sociologists Berger and Luckmann
Knowledge formulated in an organized way and is usually written down
What is technique
This view emphasizes the importance of helping people lead a more fulfilling life by developing their skills and personal relationships
what is empowerment views
Consists of wider ideas that exist in society or that practitioners derive from experience
What is Informal Theory
Organized bodies of knowledge in a systematic way so that you can focus on and select useful knowledge...
What is Frameworks
social work is socially constructed by
What is our practice, the people and organizations involved with us and the theories that inform our practice.
______ about the world used in academic study of the natural or social world is worked out by rational deductions from confirmed observations
What is Knowledge
This social work view promotes equality and social justice
what is social change views
Part of a discourse about the meaning of social work
What is "theories of what social work is"
Extract patterns of activity from practice and describe what happens during practice in a structured form.
What is models
social knowledge that has been agreed between people
what is reality
Unformulated knowledge of how to do something
What is Practical Knowledge
This view of social work supports personal freedom in economic markets
what is problem-solving views
'bottom-up' theorizing
What is Induction
Accounts for why an action results in or causes particular consequences and identifies the circumstances in which it does so.
What is Explanatory Theory
Social understanding is.
what is the product of human understandings
Formulated knowledge of facts, procedures, and values
What is Express Knowledge
There are ________ arenas of social work
what is three
Top-down theorizing
What is Deduction
'if social work is like this and these are its aims, here are some ideas about how to do that and achieve the aims'
What is Theories of how to do social work, practice theory
we turn them into rules of behavior
what is institutionalized
Unformulated knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by writing or verbally. Differs from express knowledge
What is Tacit Knowledge
Equality with practitioner and client and informed consent
what is alliance