Examining Best Practices in Macro Social Work SWU411 March 8‚ 2013 Abstract The concept of “best practice” is widely used in business management‚ healthcare‚ and in the social work field to mean the most efficient and effective way of doing things: ways that use the minimum of resources and yet return the optimum results. In the context of professional social work‚ often there are built-in tensions between the pressure for efficiency and the need to respect the individuality of clients and
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the “Social Environmental” level of the Social Ecological Model (3-4 sentences). The Social Environmental level of the Social Ecological Model deals with factors such as social support‚ social capital‚ social norms‚ and more. It is based on relationships on a larger scale than seen in the interpersonal level. It is essentially the emotional or social environment constructed by the personalities that live in an area (neighborhood)‚ or that are found participating in an area (online social networks)
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disclose their Social and Environmental issues in their annual reports. As a result‚ a question was come up with by researchers: why managers would choose to undertake the voluntary activities? Although there is no consensus being reached about what perspective theories should be used to explain the Social and Environmental Accounting‚ and moreover critique voices are from the works of Marx or by the deep-green or feminist literatures (Deegan‚ 2002)‚ to some extent‚ systems-oriented theory and Positive
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Critical social work theory does not hold one single definition; rather it refers to an expansive range of theories that a share similar orientation. Critical social work is committed to working with and for oppressed populations to achieve social transformation. Critical social work recognizes that large scale social processes namely those associated with class‚ race and gender fundamentally contribute to the personal and social issues social workers encounter in practice (Healy‚ 2001). The
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ETHICAL DILEMMA in social work This essay will address the ethical dilemmas faced by social workers and how they address these ethical dilemmas when working with service users and carers. It will be illustrated that codes of practice and codes of ethics are of paramount importance when dealing with these dilemmas as they are ones that guide social workers as to how they should try and solve these dilemmas. Social workers encounter ethical dilemmas every day during their work. Banks‚ in her explanations
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Work Practice Portfolio : 5N1433 1. Key features of work practice organisation Muskerry Golf Club‚ situated in beautiful parkland close to the village of Tower‚ near Blarney was established in 1907 which was originally serviced by a light railway which used to run from Cork city to Blarney (a piece of track and signal has been left for posterity and as a feature on the 18th green). It was originally only a nine hole course until 1924 when the renowned Golf Course Designer Dr. Alister MacKenzie
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The ecological models of health behavior is based on the premise that behavior has multiple levels of influence. These levels are: - Intrapersonal factors: characteristics of factors at the individual level. It includes knowledge‚ attitudes‚ behavior‚ self-efficacy‚ developmental history‚ gender‚ age‚ religious identity‚ racial/ethnic identity‚ sexual orientation‚ economic status‚ financial resources‚ values‚ or goals. - Interpersonal factors‚ including family‚ friends‚ peers‚ co-workers‚ religious
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Family Systems Theory. The basic principles underlying the Family Systems Theory is the emphasis on the individual’s behavior being understood in the context of the family and the family’s behavior being understood in the context of other social systems. The more treatment and educational programs take into account the relationships and interactions among family members‚ the more likely they will be successful (Lambie‚ 2011). One model that has been developed specifically to persons with disabilities
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Introduction The work motivation theories can be broadly classified as content theories and process theories. The content theories are concerned with identifying the needs that people have and how needs are prioritized. They are concerned with types of incentives that drive people to attain need fulfillment. The Maslow hierarchy theory‚ Fredrick Herzberg’s two factor theory and Alderfer’s ERG needs theory fall in this category. Although such a content approach has logic‚ is easy to understand‚ and
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Chapter 1 The Ecosystems Perspective: Implications for Practice Mark A. Mattaini and Carol H. Meyer Social work involves‚ at its core‚ work with interconnected transactional networks. The ecosystems perspective has been almost universally accepted in social work because it provides a framework for thinking about and understanding those networks in their complexity. This strategy for viewing the world can at first seem rather abstract‚ so it may be useful to explore why it was developed and has
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