[SOCWORK 3E03] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (34 pages long)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 3E03
• Professor: Jim Gladstone

Document Summary

*in the outline he does not have assigned readings for each week make sure to do readings on that weeks topic from the textbook. What do theories do: theories organize information about the world, connect ideas that otherwise appear to be quite random, theories describe behaviour. In this course we"ll be discussing the concepts attached to these various theories: will look at a case to identify certain concepts attached to various theories that are helpful in your assessment of a specific case. Erickson emphasized importance of independence, trust, mastery and sense of self. Criticism is that there"s a gender biased here. Women do not exactly develop a strong sense of self by being independent and autonomous. Women gain a sense of self through their connection to other people. Pointed out that erickson talked about stages of development and different tasks to achieve these stages.