SWP 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Age Of Enlightenment, Marxism, Ocad University
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Philosophical foundations or the big ideas behind social work and its practice theories". Approaches to using theory (healy: empirical or evidence based. A response to demand for clarity, control and demonstration of effectiveness that led the profession to aim at a scienti cally grounded social work practice. Social work should be grounded in rational knowledge (gained through reason, or logical argument) Encourages social workers to critically review and seek research. Promote top-down - sw researcher develops and tests a theory and practitioner practices it in the eld: re ective. Recognizing that the practitioners lived experiences of practice is their basis for using knowledges in their practice. Developing practice through experiences instead of drawing on past theories. Messy", because you respond in the moment, intuitive. Refers to changing your practice with a family as you learn about their issues. Clients get the work they need: re exive. Knowledge constructed by practitioners and evidence (top down and bottom up)
