FUNCTIONAL THEORY FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE by SHANKAR A. YELAJA A number of theorists post-Freud began to see that‚ "the goal-directed whole of any organism transcends the sum of its parts‚ that each being is unique despite common patterns‚ that the observer affects the observed despite rigorous striving for scientific objectivity and impersonality‚ and that will and freedom do exist and play a significant role in the unfolding of a human being..." (p. 50) These concepts are essential building
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Describe a Practice Situation: (Descriptive items to cover: the situation‚ your part in it or the roles of others you observed‚ the outcome‚ and your reactions and feelings during the event or afterward.) Today I observed 2 emergency hearings and a detention hearing. The first hearing was a juvenile sent to detention for trying to commit suicide by hanging himself at his foster home‚ the foster mom had to cut him down‚ he was sent to FMC‚ assessed and then released‚ he was sent to detention
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Mining Report: Social Work in Evidence Based Practice Adrian Perry The University of Tennessee College of Social Work Mining Report: Social Work in Evidence Based Practice The purpose of social work is to demonstrate to society the necessary appropriateness of social welfare. Society operates from a capitalist standpoint‚ which in turn establishes a hierarchy within economic class‚ race‚ and gender. Social work is a profession that addresses social problems with
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Definitions Evidence-Based Practice. The term evidence-based practice (EBP) was used initially in relation to medicine‚ but has since been adopted by many fields including education‚ child welfare‚ mental heath‚ and criminal justice. The Institute of Medicine (2001) defines evidence-based medicine as the integration of best researched evidence and clinical expertise with patient values (p. 147). In social work‚ most agree that EBP is a process involving creating an answerable question based on
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Discussion 1: Week 4 Social work practice with groups Talia is a 19-year female a junior majoring in psychology and minoring in English. Talia is a brilliant student with an excellent GPA that has authored short articles on current events for the university. She is an active person and belong to female social group also lives in an apartment outside the school premises. In addition‚ Talia visits the university gym for wellness excise a few times a week. She like to drink few times a week. Sometimes
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of conducting spiritual assessments with clients in social work practice? Is this practice something that you would consider engaging in as a professional social worker? Why or why not? The idea of conducting spiritual assessments with clients in the social work practice is an important factor to better assist the clients. I think this is a necessary and critical component to assist clients. Dr. Gabbard mentioned in the video‚ before a social worker can network with other organizations and resources
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doing now was simply ruling out all the other paintings. That was until I saw her face. It wasn’t a particularly pretty face‚ not to say she was homely by any means‚ but more so to say it was not any physical attribute or attractiveness that caught my eye. Her face had a hauntingly hollow expression that was all too familiar‚ and although strong and lean‚ it had such an incredible heaviness to it. It seemed even holding it up had become beyond her ability anymore. It just seemed to hang down and
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I. Societal Responses to Disability 1. How the perceived cause of disability affects societies response. 2. Personal examples of societal response to disability. II. Social Workers and People with Disabilities 1. Service systems designed to address issues specific to disability. 2. Personal thoughts on the service systems design to help the disabled. III. The Ecosystems Model and People with Disability 1. Individual 2. Family 3. Culture 4. Environmental-Structural 5. Historical
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Theoretical knowledge Our community intervention followed the guidelines of two models of community work to facilitate a more organized and informed approach for making our intervention at the Bless the Children Home orphanage practicable. The Community Education model and the Community Development model we found applicable to our community intervention. In addition to these two models we also employed our education of cultural awareness to help us to be more useful to the children in the orphanage
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Introduction This essay will assess how integrating counselling skills should support clients. Counselling is a supportive and empathic professional relation that provides a framework for the exploration of emotions‚ behaviours and thinking patterns and the facilitation of healthy changes. Counselling is directed towards people experiencing difficulties as they live through the normal stages of lifespan development (Feltham C‚ 1995). The skills that the essay will focus on are active listening‚
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