Chapter 2 social work

The society for prevention of pauperism

• made by john griscom in 1820

• purpose - to investigate the habits and circumstances of those struggling with poverty, to suggest plans by which they could help themsleves, and to encourage them to save and economize

• home visits were popular

The charity organization society (COS)

• 1877

• most sympathy

• larger cities

• private agencies

• first social workers

Settlement houses

• 1800s

• daughters of ministers worked here mostly

• still trying to teach “poner las pillas”

• goal = by imrpoving the neighborhood > communities > better society

• 1884 tonybee hall was the first on in london

What was the first settlement house?

Tonybell hall in london

Hull house of chicago in 1869

• jane addams made it

• was in chicago

• prevented child labor

• she got the noble prize in 1931

• all types of resources and clubs

timeline for school of social work

• first real training course in 1898 by NY charity organization society

• first school was in 1989 in amsterdam

• 1st one year college in 1903 at the NY school of philanthropy

• 1905 medical social work happened at the massachusets general hospital (Richard Cabot)

• ***people first hired around 1900s and formal training in early 1900s ***

Social diagnosis (book)

• mary richmond

• 1917

• about the theory of social work

• goal = intervene, collect info, diagnose, prognosis, treatment plan

• freud was an influence

Who was big in 1920?

• Sigmund Freud

• reform > therapy

What is the medical model approach?

clients are patients that need treatment and medical lables (freud)

Changes in 1960

• talk > meeting peoples needs

• sociology was studied more

• questioning the medical model

• enviromental factors are more the reason ratehr than blaming people

• psychoanalysis is inefective

• more towards a reform approach

• more interest in socialigical ideas

In 1955 what was made?

NASW

purpose of NASW

improve social conditions in society and promote high quality and effectiveness in social work practice

goal of NASW

assure the public that qualified personal are providng social work services and advances that recognition of social work as a profession

Definition of social work

Helping individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities to enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and to create societal conditions favorable to their goal

What are the 2 most basic skills a social worker should have?

• ability to intervene and counsel clients effectively

• ability interact effectively with other groups and professionals

The steps for problem and solutions as a social worker

• indtify as precisely as possible the problem

• generative posible aternative solutions

• evaluate the alternative solutions

• select a solution and make goals

• implement the solution

• follow up/evaluate how the solutions worked

Antireductionist

No system can be adequately understood once all of its parts are broken down

Definition of systems perspective

look beyond the problems and look at all the intercomplexities and the clients real life

pillars of the systems perspective

• wholeeness, relationships, and homesostatis

• wholeness - when objects/people work together they can acomplish greater things than just by themselves

Definition of ecological approach

treatment and reform are important but transitions are the most important

pillars of the ecological approach

• there are internal and external factors

• people are not passive reactors and are dynamic/reciprocal

• focuses on coping strategies

• can focus on maladaptive/interpersonal problems

3 ways the ecological approach goes about it work

• a person seeking a better within their enviroment

• a person and their systesm

• reform within systems

interpersonal/maladaptive problems

• power struggles

• double blinds

• distortions

• scapgoting

• discrimination

5 major goals of social work

1. enhance the problem solving coping and developmental capacities of people

2. link people with systems that provide them with resources, services, and opportunities

3. promote the effecivness and human operation of systems that provide people with resources

4. develop and improve social policy

5. promote human and community well being

1. enhance the problem solving coping and developmental capacities of people (social worker is a what)

faciliator

2. link people with systems that provide them with resources, services, and opportunities (social worker is a what)

broker

3. promote the effecivness and human operation of systems that provide people with resources (social worker is a what)

• program developer

• supervisor

• cordinator

• consulant

4. develop and improve social policy (social worker is a what)

• planner

• policy developer

empowerment

process of helping people increase their interpersonal, personal, political, and socioeconmic status

Who mad ethe strengths perspective?

Dennis Saleebey

Definition of Strength perspective

uses assesment, intervention, and eveluation stages to help and emphasize people abilities, values, interests, beliefs, resources, and acomplisments

7 pillars of the strengths perspective

• people have strengths and capacity to learn, grow, and change

• when interveing focus on strengths and aspirations of the client

• the community/envrioment of the client has lots of resources

• you collaborate with your clients (the client helps you make the choices

  • they will be more motivated/they know more about their lives

• client self determination is important

• a comitment to power must be made

• problems are based on enrvioment/systems and not the client

deficiency oriented model

focuses on what is wrong in the envrioment

2 benefits of international social work

• you can understand your system better after looking at another ones

• you can steal their ideas and apply them to your system

International federation of social workers (IFSW) purpose

• promote social work as a profession with profesional standards, training, and ethics

• to support the involvement of national associations of social work in police development

• to encourge communications amount social workers in various countries;

• to present the view of the professional internationally to inter-goverment ogrniaztions

When was the international association of social workers (IASSW) made?

1929

definition of identify formation

process of determining who you are and what you want in life

compassion fatigue (AKA vicarious traumatization)

the emotional reacting of exposure to clients suffering that occurs as a results of traumatizing events

3 phases of stress made by hans selye

• alarm

  • fight or flight

• resistance

  • body tries to go back to normal

• exhaustion

  • stress for too long

2 components of stressors

• what happened

• your self talk about the event

Definition of Mindfulness

state of consiouness with enhance attetion to moment to moment experience

scientits vs. clinicians

• scientists study and take a long time

• clinicians make decisons in the moment

When did the public really recognize social work as a profession?

world war 1

Reform is what and therapy is what

Reform (diagnose) is old and therapy is new

what happened in the 1930s?

The great depression

systems model

there are many complexities