Social Work Theories and Methods - uCoz文档.ppt

Social Work Theories and Methods Summary and Assessment Guidance Nigel Horner Lecture Overview Charting our journey Reminding ourselves of the Rationale Revisiting Core Concepts Relating to Practice The Assessment Format Key Tips for Success Next Week………………… Any questions? * Charting Our Journey Why this matters? Distinguishing between Theory (of Explanation) and Method (of Intervention) Psychodynamic approaches Behavioural and Cognitive Behavioural approaches Systems models Existential and Humanistic approaches Crisis Intervention and Task Centred Practice Strengths Based Approaches Radical / Structural models * Reminding Ourselves of the Rationale Indeed we have only the most general ideas of what we are trying to produce, what constitutes the essential skill of the social worker, and consequently still more varied ideas of how to set about it (Younghusband, 1959:28) 50 years on, do we know what social workers do and how they do it? * The Current Definition The social work profession promotes social change, problem - solving in human relationships and empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well being. Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work” (International Association of Schools of Social Work and the International Federation of Social Workers, 2001, in BASW, 2002) * The Purpose of Social Work Intervention ….the need for social work intervention arises when the resources available to an individual, family or community are insufficient for them to achieve preferred or required outcomes…… In other words, social work intervention is a response to the apparent incapacity of the service user target to achieve their goals without assistance from an external agency * Theories and Methods Theories are constructs of explanation: What’s Going On? Methods are mo