SOCWORK 2A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conceptual Framework
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Enhance well being and quality of life: meet basic needs. Looking holistically at problems and understanding them as a whole. Promote social functioning before anything goes wrong: prevention, restoration, remediation, working to have positive outcomes for greater amounts of ppl than just one. Restore to where ppl want to be after various negative events. Environment - understanding client"s relationship to their context. Purpose/practice setting - how you approach and work with particular clients. Ex aop, how does that impact ourselves and our clients. Ideas that are organized to create a focus that helps you integrate information into practice. Understanding dynamics and consequences of social and economic injustice - human oppression. How environments in uence each other (reciprocal relationship - can"t have one without the other: what sw"s do impacts clients, and vice versa. Reminds us what to look at and all the areas to consider. Don"t tell us how to actually do the work.