Glt2 Task 2 Health And Social Care
Social Workers that work in the field with children and families will be ultimately working with two groups identified as being progressively the most vulnerable. Services provided by social workers for children and families provide support, counseling, connection to community resources. Providing assessments and strong advocacy are the process involved that will provide the social worker with the ability to help families problem solve, placement of children of neglect and abuse into an adequate and nurturing home, assist with housing for homeless families, employment training for professional development, also pregnant woman in helping to navigate through the adoptive/ foster system. Social workers provide support and skills to help parents
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and children manage with stressful situation such as homelessness, domestic violence and child neglect.
Competency 1: Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
Practice Behavior 1: Advocate for client access to the services of Social Work.
Children and families example: Social worker is aware of community resources and familiarizes themselves with partnering agencies to ensure adequate services are accessible to the families.
Practice Behavior 2: Use supervision and consultation.
Children and families example: Social worker should and will need supervision in order to effectively assist your family and/or child their working with. Types of supervision are Administrative supervision-giving social worker the information in order for them to do their job. Educational supervision- teaching methods are provided so that the social worker can perform at his/her fullest potential. Supportive supervision gives the social worker encouragement and reassurance. Situations can and will get stressful and it’s important to seek supervision when you are unsure. (Abbott)
Competency 2: Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.
Practice Behavior 1: Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice.
Children and Families Example: Social workers will have to put their own personal beliefs aside in order to be judgment free, to better serve families and their children. So that one cannot push their values on their client. If a parent decides to have an abortion and you are against it, the social worker must respect and be of guidance, so the client can make the best decision for herself and her family.
Practice Behavior 2: Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts.
Children and Families Example: You have to be okay with the fact that everything and all the answers are not always there. Knowing that things aren’t always going to be clear and with some uncertainness still is able to maintain and be there for your clients.
Competency 3: Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
Practice Behavior 1: Analyze models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation.
Children and Families Example: Listening to the clients and making a logical understanding of the clients’ needs to better mutually decide what would be the best practice and goals for the client. Social worker will meet with that client to see if what was mutually agreed upon have progress been made and if alternative methods need to take place (Kirst-Ashman, 2015)
Practice Behavior 2: Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues.
Children and Families Example: It is in great practice to always document everything important pertaining to the families you are working with. You may need to verbally present a case to a team of other social workers and supervisors to collectively help the family. Important and detailed documentation is necessary.
Competency 4: Engage diversity and difference in practice
Behavior Practice 1: Recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power.
Children and Families Example: Social Workers should be continuing learners in their field, and constantly seek cultural knowledge. They should be able to identify the strengths of the individuals they will be serving according to the culture and backgrounds.
Behavior Practice 2: View themselves as learners and engage those with whom they work as informants.
Children and Families Example: Social Workers should be lifelong learners in their field, and constantly seek cultural knowledge. They should be able to identify the strengths of the individuals they will be serving according to the culture and backgrounds.
Competency 5: Advance human rights and social and economic justice
Behavior Practice 1: Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination.
Children and Families Example: Discrimination is the act of being treated unjustly based on the different categories of people or things based on the grounds solely on their race, age, gender, religion. (Deloach, 2014)
Behavior Practice 2: Advocate for human rights and social and economic justice.
Children and Families Example: Everyone has the right to have basic human rights. Basic and adequate healthcare shouldn’t be a choice nor compromised. Each person should have the right to be taught in a safe and productive environment in order to receive basic education. People have the right to be free and not have privacy invaded. Having basic housing without being judged or discriminated against.
Competency 6: Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
Behavior Practice 1: Use practice experiences to inform scientific inquiry.
Children and Families Example: The service plan collectively made between the client and social worker should be checked and modified if necessary.
Behavior Practice 2: Use research evidence to inform …show more content…
practice.
Children and Families Example: Social workers may have to review and research certain rules and policies to provide proof of what it is they may me working on.
Competency 7: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment
Behavior Practice 1: Utilize conceptual frameworks to guide the process of assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Children and Families Example:
Behavior Practice 2: Critique and apply knowledge to understand person and environment.
Children and Families Example:
Competency 8: Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services
Behavior Practice 1: Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social well-being.
Children and Families Example: Assessing and checking to see what services that an individual may be eligible for. Next seeking and reaching out to those partnering and outside agencies to get the client connected with these services. Advocating will be needed to assist the client along.
Behavior Practice 2: Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective policy action.
Children and Families Example: Collectively have meetings with clients and the agencies to seek what rules of action works and what don’t work. Advocating for change is important for alternating certain policies.
Competency 9: Respond to contexts that shape practice
Behavior Practice 1: Continuously discover, appraise, and attend to changing locales, populations, scientific and technological developments, and emerging societal trends to provide relevant services.
Children and Families Example: Attending local and nationwide events and meeting on different policies, and having knowledge on
changes.
Behavior Practice 2: Provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the quality of social services.
Children and Families Example:
Competency 10: Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities
Behavior Practice 1: Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives.
Children and Families Example: It is the up to the social worker to allow the client to make decisions on their own. It is necessary to not do for a client what a client might possibly be able to do on their own. Letting the client to have a sense of involvement is important for the growth and give the client accountability over their own life and situation.
Behavior Practice 2: Collect, organize and interpret client data.
Children and Families Example: When meeting with the client, it is important to be a good listener. Most of the information that you will receive will be impossible to remember. Documenting key words to go back on is important, so recording data is accurate and detailed. (H, 2013)
and children manage with stressful situation such as homelessness, domestic violence and child neglect.
Competency 1: Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
Practice Behavior 1: Advocate for client access to the services of Social Work.
Children and families example: Social worker is aware of community resources and familiarizes themselves with partnering agencies to ensure adequate services are accessible to the families.
Practice Behavior 2: Use supervision and consultation.
Children and families example: Social worker should and will need supervision in order to effectively assist your family and/or child their working with. Types of supervision are Administrative supervision-giving social worker the information in order for them to do their job. Educational supervision- teaching methods are provided so that the social worker can perform at his/her fullest potential. Supportive supervision gives the social worker encouragement and reassurance. Situations can and will get stressful and it’s important to seek supervision when you are unsure. (Abbott)
Competency 2: Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.
Practice Behavior 1: Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice.
Children and Families Example: Social workers will have to put their own personal beliefs aside in order to be judgment free, to better serve families and their children. So that one cannot push their values on their client. If a parent decides to have an abortion and you are against it, the social worker must respect and be of guidance, so the client can make the best decision for herself and her family.
Practice Behavior 2: Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts.
Children and Families Example: You have to be okay with the fact that everything and all the answers are not always there. Knowing that things aren’t always going to be clear and with some uncertainness still is able to maintain and be there for your clients.
Competency 3: Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
Practice Behavior 1: Analyze models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation.
Children and Families Example: Listening to the clients and making a logical understanding of the clients’ needs to better mutually decide what would be the best practice and goals for the client. Social worker will meet with that client to see if what was mutually agreed upon have progress been made and if alternative methods need to take place (Kirst-Ashman, 2015)
Practice Behavior 2: Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues.
Children and Families Example: It is in great practice to always document everything important pertaining to the families you are working with. You may need to verbally present a case to a team of other social workers and supervisors to collectively help the family. Important and detailed documentation is necessary.
Competency 4: Engage diversity and difference in practice
Behavior Practice 1: Recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power.
Children and Families Example: Social Workers should be continuing learners in their field, and constantly seek cultural knowledge. They should be able to identify the strengths of the individuals they will be serving according to the culture and backgrounds.
Behavior Practice 2: View themselves as learners and engage those with whom they work as informants.
Children and Families Example: Social Workers should be lifelong learners in their field, and constantly seek cultural knowledge. They should be able to identify the strengths of the individuals they will be serving according to the culture and backgrounds.
Competency 5: Advance human rights and social and economic justice
Behavior Practice 1: Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination.
Children and Families Example: Discrimination is the act of being treated unjustly based on the different categories of people or things based on the grounds solely on their race, age, gender, religion. (Deloach, 2014)
Behavior Practice 2: Advocate for human rights and social and economic justice.
Children and Families Example: Everyone has the right to have basic human rights. Basic and adequate healthcare shouldn’t be a choice nor compromised. Each person should have the right to be taught in a safe and productive environment in order to receive basic education. People have the right to be free and not have privacy invaded. Having basic housing without being judged or discriminated against.
Competency 6: Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
Behavior Practice 1: Use practice experiences to inform scientific inquiry.
Children and Families Example: The service plan collectively made between the client and social worker should be checked and modified if necessary.
Behavior Practice 2: Use research evidence to inform …show more content…
practice.
Children and Families Example: Social workers may have to review and research certain rules and policies to provide proof of what it is they may me working on.
Competency 7: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment
Behavior Practice 1: Utilize conceptual frameworks to guide the process of assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Children and Families Example:
Behavior Practice 2: Critique and apply knowledge to understand person and environment.
Children and Families Example:
Competency 8: Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services
Behavior Practice 1: Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social well-being.
Children and Families Example: Assessing and checking to see what services that an individual may be eligible for. Next seeking and reaching out to those partnering and outside agencies to get the client connected with these services. Advocating will be needed to assist the client along.
Behavior Practice 2: Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective policy action.
Children and Families Example: Collectively have meetings with clients and the agencies to seek what rules of action works and what don’t work. Advocating for change is important for alternating certain policies.
Competency 9: Respond to contexts that shape practice
Behavior Practice 1: Continuously discover, appraise, and attend to changing locales, populations, scientific and technological developments, and emerging societal trends to provide relevant services.
Children and Families Example: Attending local and nationwide events and meeting on different policies, and having knowledge on
changes.
Behavior Practice 2: Provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the quality of social services.
Children and Families Example:
Competency 10: Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities
Behavior Practice 1: Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives.
Children and Families Example: It is the up to the social worker to allow the client to make decisions on their own. It is necessary to not do for a client what a client might possibly be able to do on their own. Letting the client to have a sense of involvement is important for the growth and give the client accountability over their own life and situation.
Behavior Practice 2: Collect, organize and interpret client data.
Children and Families Example: When meeting with the client, it is important to be a good listener. Most of the information that you will receive will be impossible to remember. Documenting key words to go back on is important, so recording data is accurate and detailed. (H, 2013)