Engaging with Social Work最新文献

{"title":"Social Work Practice","authors":"John Poulin, Selina Matis","doi":"10.1017/9781108681094.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108681094.008","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to engage in effective, advanced, social work practice requires the application of abilities in the areas of valuing a diverse world, integrating values and ethics, advocating for social justice, succeeding in the world of work, critical thinking, communication, and professional use of self. It also involves the capacity to engage, assess, plan, intervene, and evaluate. Graduates of the master's program at MSASS are advanced practitioners in a social work environment that is undergoing major transformation. In part, these changes reflect external forces, such as devolution, privatization, welfare reform, and managed care. They also reflect the creative efforts of social workers themselves to redesign services and reshape practice to make services less fragmented and reactive, more comprehensive, integrated, flexible, and responsive. Social work in this environment requires a revitalization of the profession's tradition of community-oriented practice. Social workers need to analyze and apply knowledge of bio-psycho-social variables that affect individual development and behavior. But they also need to understand and intervene in the patterns of interaction that generate or perpetuate problems involving multiple system levels (such as family, neighbors, school, and social service or justice systems). Community-based social work practice sees lasting solutions to problems as arising from the strengths of the community and culture of the individuals and families concerned. It recognizes that clients are involved in larger patterns of formal and informal helping that may involve social networks including family, church or temple, friends, neighbors, or community organizations as well as other professionals. Social work practice sees itself as one part of this larger pattern of helping, its effectiveness depending on how the whole pattern works to ensure that individual, family, and community needs are met. Social workers intervene at all levels, with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, with the aim of building partnerships with those involved to strengthen the caring capacity of communities as they work to resolve issues of immediate concern. Community-based social work practice: • Embraces an inclusive definition of community • Values community as process • Views the individual in the context of a pattern of relationships that includes family, groups, organizations, and communities • Integrates community and individual practice • Builds interventions on the strengths and assets of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities • Emphasizes participation, teamwork, collaboration, and partnerships at all levels • Recognizes that comprehensive interventions are shaped by all interactions and exchanges within the social ecology • …","PeriodicalId":307302,"journal":{"name":"Engaging with Social Work","volume":"52 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128898970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theories for practice","authors":"S. Egan","doi":"10.1017/9781108681094.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108681094.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":307302,"journal":{"name":"Engaging with Social Work","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123978509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}