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| set of elements that are orderly and interrelated to make a functional whole; must be a pattern |
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| what size does generalist practice targets? |
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-careful scrutiny of what is stated as true and the resulting expression of an opinion or conclusion based on that scrutiny
-creative formulation of an opinion or conclusion when presented with a question problem or issue
-social worker seriously thinks about a client systems problems, issues, and macro environment in order to determine how to proceed in the helping process |
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Ask questions
asses the established facts and issued involved
Assert a concluding opinion |
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| Triple A Approach to crictial thinking |
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Engagement
Assessment
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Termination
Follow up
a. reassess
b. discontinue contact |
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| Generalist Intervention Model |
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-Focus on any problem or cluster of problems
-target enviornment
-role of advocate
-core professional values
-client in partnership role with social worker |
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| uniqueness of social work |
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competence need in a whide variety of areas
the application of an eclectic knowledge base, professional values ethics, and a wide range of skills to target systems of any size for change within the context of three primary principles, a context, and four major processes |
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-emphasis on client empowerment, strengths, and resiliency
- importance of understanindg human diversity
-advocate for human rights and pursuit of social and economic justice |
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| Three primary Principles of Generalist Practice |
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-Conceptual Framework
-know the range of social systems in which people live
-know how systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being |
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| knowledge base- ecological perspective |
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Person-in-environment
• Living dynamic interaction
• Guide how they view the world
• emphasis on active participation |
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| evidence-based perspective |
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research informed practice
integration of scientific evidence with practice expertise |
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| a wide variety of professional roles |
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| What are some of the roles that a social worker assumes? |
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| What does generalist practice social workers follow to achieve intervention goals? |
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| principles, qualities, and practices that designate groups, individuals, or culture deems inherently desirable |
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| o Energy, information, or communication flow received from other systems |
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| o Same flow emitted from a system to the environment or to other systems |
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| o Different means to the same end |
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| o Individual, family, group, organization, or community that will ultimately benefit from generalist social work intervention |
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| o Individual who initiates the planned change process |
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| o Involves the condition, circumstances, and human interactions that encompass human beings |
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o Something is communicated or exchanged
o May be positive or negative
• Positive- one you love dearly loves you back
• Negative- being fired from a job you have had for 15 years |
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| o Natural power of active involvement among people and their environments |
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| o Exact point at which the interaction between an individual and environment take place |
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| o Adjust to surrounding environmental conditions |
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| o Adaptation and implies a struggle to overcome problems |
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| o Mutual reliance of each person on each other person |
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o Interactions with other people in the immediate environment
o Relationships with peer groups and immediate work group |
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o People’s transactions with large organizations and systems
o Ex. Poverty, discrimination, social pressures |
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o Rules that tell us which actions among a multitude of actions we may and may not take
o Guide our work and our decions |
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| o Laws that determine how resources are distributed and what opportunities are made available for people; how money can be spent to help people and how these people will be treated |
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| o How organization is structured |
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o Priciples, qualities, and pratices that designated group or culture deems desirable
o Guidelines for behavior |
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| o Standards based on a set of values that serve to guide ones behavior |
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| skills used in small groups |
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| o Putting extreme liitations and restrictions on the members of some identified group |
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| direct interaction with individual clients; micro level of practice |
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| organizing and running a wide variet of groups; mezzo level of practice |
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| working with organizations and communities; macro level of practice |
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| o Ideal condiditon that all humans have same rights |
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| • Distribution of resoucres in a fair and equitable manner |
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| channels of communication |
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| • Who communicates with whom and how |
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| o Whose opinions carry the most weight in agency decision making |
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| o Culturally expected behavior pattern for a person having a specified status or being involved in a designatied social relationship |
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| o Links client systems to needed resources |
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| o Guides group experiences |
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| o One who calls attention to an issue |
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| provides advice, suggestions, or ideas to another person |
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| client self-determination |
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o 1. Inform clients of resources
o 2. Help them define and articulate their alternatives
o 3. Assist them in evaluation the consequences of each action |
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