Intro to Social Work Lecture 5 Flashcards
What is self-awareness?
Particularly emotional awareness - how you affect or are affected by others.
What is emotional intelligence?
Is the ability to manage both your own emotions and understand the emotions of people around you. There are 5 key elements to EI: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.
What is self-reflection?
Is one way to understand self.
What is reflective practice?
Requires you to be self-critical.
What is relfexivity?
The way knowledge is generated and how power influences how knowledge is generated. - the causes and consequences of one’s own and other people’s actions.
What is dimensions of use of self:
- Awareness of personal traits and belief systems.
- Understanding of relational dynamics.
- How anxiety effects personal relationships.
What is reflective practice?
Encourages Social Workers to reflect critically on power.
2 stages - analysis and change.
What is analysis?
Is about deconstruction - how is power used and abused.
What is change?
Is re-construction - see the possibility of reclaiming power.
What is reflective practice?
Must have an understanding of the power imbalance between worker and client.
What is reflective practitioner?
Characterized by uncertainty, complexity, and the need to solve problems.
In addition to theories and concepts you need to think on your feet. Reflect on what you have done, why you did it and what affect it had on you and one the client.
Good supervisions supports reflection and creates a space for “emotional thinking.”
Good reflective supervision helps to reflect on what goes on between the worker and the client.
Reflection, reflexivity and supervision aim to increase worker’s emotional and psychological availability for the clients.
Why is reflective practice critical?
RP is critical and deliberate in inquiry into professional practice in order to gain a deeper understanding of oneself, others, and the meaning that is shared among individuals. This can happen during practice and after the fact, and can either be done alone or with others.
What do theories seek?
Theories seeks to describe what is going on; they seek to explain certain behaviour or phenomena; they seek to predict specific events; and they seek to control and manage events/changes.
Theories:
- Offer guidelines for therapeutic and social interventions.
- Shape the way we view clients and how we conduct assessments, interventions, and research.
What is a theory?
It’s an idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain facts/events.
It is a statement which can generate a wide scope of predictions, but only through some intermediate steps, such as reasoning, computation, the use of other statements.
It is a set of accepted beliefs or organized principles that explain and guide analysis and one of the ways that theory is defined is that it is different from practice, when certain principles are tested.
