SLWK 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Crisis Theory, Psychodynamics, Community Practice
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Generalist interventions can include a wide array of approaches with different theories and empahses. Ecological systems framework: understanding clients in the context of social systems and the people that they interact with. Strengths: every individual, group, family, and community has strengths. Trauma, abuse, illness, and struggle can be injurious, but also sources of challenge and opportunity. Diversity: being aware of and sensitive to diversity. Theories of human behavior in social work. Basis of psychosocial treatment, the problem-solving method, and task- centered casework. Based on the belief that how and what a person thinks determines or contributes to how the person feels and behaves. Crisis: a situation where a person"s normal coping strategies are not working. View client from the person-in-environment and strengths perspectives. Seeking permission to gather more information from a people in a client"s system. Identifying medical, psychosocial, behavioral, and spiritual needs. if necessary. Helping a client achieve goals you have both decided on.
