Week 4 Flashcards

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What is direct social work practice?

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-A Series/Process of Interventionist Actions
-Direct social work practice consists of a step-by-step process intended to help clients achieve purposeful change
-Fundamentally related to decision making along a continuum of services
-from first encounter to the conclusion of the working relationship with a client
-The decision-making process must be transparent, purposeful, & free of bias
-Empirical research alone cannot validate decision making
-We must examine the varied and unique circumstances of each situation

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Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

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-Evidence-based practice is a process in which the practitioner combines:
-well-researched interventions
-With clinical experience,
-ethics,
-and the client’s preferences & culture
-to guide the delivery of services.
-EBP helps clinicians collect and critically appraise the best evidence (from literature, self, and client) to guide an intervention or treatment decision.

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3 Fields/Areas of Direct Social Work Practice

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Three Overlapping Fields
-Social Work with Individuals and Families
-Social Work with Groups
-Social Work with Communities

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The Helping Relationship

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-A social worker works collaboratively with the client, not for the client, in a helping relationship.
-Three important attributes in the client-practitioner relationships are:
warmth
empathy
genuineness
-The helping relationship is central to social work when with a couple, a child and a parent, or entire families.

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The Skill Set Used in Direct Intervention

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-Social work practice with individuals and families involves a set of skills that can be continually improved:
-Active listening
-Validating feelings
-Interviewing or dialoguing
-Paraphrasing
-Clarifying
-Summarizing
-Giving Information
-Interpreting
-Building consensus

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Critical self-reflection

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-Is a frame of mind that helps practitioners understand how:
-their own identities and beliefs,
-as well as their professional and personal lives,
-are shaped not only by unique traits and personal experiences,
-but also by societal forces such as:
-parental influences,
-cultural influences, the media, educational institutions,
-and political movements.

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Working with Individuals and Families

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1.Intake
2.Assessment and Planning
3.Evaluation and Termination
4.Intervention

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Social Work with Groups

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-Group work involves assisting a collection of people who are dealing generally with a similar problem or issue
-Groups can be peers, a family, or a therapeutic group.

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Group Dynamics

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-Difference between helping people in a group setting and assisting them one-on-one are sometimes referred to as a group dynamics, which include:
Communication patterns
Cohesion
Group influence and conformity

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Groups meaning

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Collectives of people striving for change

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Types of Groups

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-Self-help groups
-Educational groups
-Support/therapeutic groups
-Task groups
-Social action groups

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Group Facilitation Skills

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A Combination of Skills
The skills for working with individuals also apply to groups:
Active listening
Expressions of empathy
Questioning
Paraphrasing
Reflecting
Summarizing
Providing information or suggestions
Building consensus
Reframing ideas

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A Combination of Skills

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Additionally, group facilitation skills include:
Connecting
Focusing on process
Cueing
Supporting
Blocking
Demonstrating social empathy

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Stages of groups

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-When Groups Come Together to Get Results
-Groups do not proceed systematically or linearly through stages but typically move back and forth between stages
The five stages are:
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning

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Forming

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Planning the group and getting it started

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Storming

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Occurs when conflict emerges in the group

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Norming

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Group expectations, standards, or common practices and roles are defined; members establish a sense of trust with each other.

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Performing

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Group members work toward achieving the outlined goals

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Adjourning

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The group moves toward termination

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What is a community?

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-People, acting together
-Underlying community work is the belief that people acting together have the capacity to improve their own circumstances.
-Those involved have first-hand knowledge of their own situation and what is needed to change things for the better.
-There are different approaches to community work

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Rothman’s Model of Community Work

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-Three Approaches to Community Work
-In the 1960’s, Jack Rothman summarized community work as fitting into three distinct types;
Locality development
Social planning
Social action

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Locality Development

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focuses on issues relevant to a particular neighbourhood or geographic space

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Social planning

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an expert-driven approach to community work, often found in social planning councils and city planning departments

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Social action:

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often uses social protest to challenge injustices

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Saul Alinsky's Approach to Community Activism
-Winning Battles for Marginalized Communities -Alinsky did not believe that capitalism itself needed to be challenged, but that creating confrontation could redistribute resources within that system. -Building community organizations is instrumental for community work -Community work needs to be fun -He used unorthodox, confrontational tactics for community organizing -The element of surprise is effective for communities who challenge power holders
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Paulo Freire's Approach to Community Mobilization
-Developing a Collective, Critical Consciousness -Freire developed a radical approach to education that is applicable to community practice. -Begin with a listening survey -The organizer and a small learning group gather to go through the findings of the listening survey -Codes are presented to the community to stimulate discussion & action -Promotes PRAXIS: a process of reflection & action
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Community Capacity Building
-A Popular National and International Approach -McKnight & Kretzmann believe that community work should build upon the strengths and assets of a community rather than focusing on the community’s needs, deficits, or disadvantages -Some look at community work as healing -members draw on community traditions and values as part of a process of healing
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Feminist & Women-Centred Community Work
-Women as Keys to Their Communities -This style of organizing was developed by working-class women, Black women activists, lesbian activists, and middle-class white women. -Meeting women’s needs impacts positively on families and the community more broadly -Tends to rely on consensus decision making, shared leadership, and a process orientation -Feminist-based community work believes that gender oppression is inextricably linked to social and economic justice -A feminist framework challenges systemic oppressions
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Social Work with Communities/ Mobilizing for Social Change
-Bill Lee (1999) breaks down community work into a series of phases. -These overlapping phases provide an idea of the process that constitutes community work. Pre-Entry Contact and Engagement Community Analysis Action Planning and Mobilization Conflict Resolution Evaluation
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Organizing in the Black Community
-Community organizing & mutual aid have been prominent with Black people in North America -Group vs. individual orientation -Africville, Halifax -Hogan’s Alley, Vancouver -There are different ways of building community
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In voluntary clients
have to be there also called mandated
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Voluntary Clients
choose to be there