S W 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Settlement Movement, Human Services, Conflict Theories
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Global standards that frame the core purpose of international social work also emphasize social action, political action, and advocacy to facilitate the inclusion of marginalized, socially excluded, dispossesses, and vulnerable at-risk groups of people . The ethical standards and educational policy statements of the national professional organizations regarding economic and social justice and equality are hardly the exclusive domains of social work as a profession. By definition, macro practice involves professionally guided interventions in which the targets are social problems and conditions. Tue profession"s emphasis on the relationship between people and their environment can be traced to the belief system that guided the work of the settlement house movement. The micro-to-macro continuum is a natural extension of helping individual clients deal with the social problems, conditions, or policies that affect their lives. Because of the dual, interlocking connection between the public and the private, there are times when a two-prong approach is required.
