Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Step One, Best Interests

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Carrie Smith

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Four key factors are contributing to the challenges for modern day sw: demographic changes: increase demand for service, aging population, lone parent families, poverty, immigration/cultural shifts. Current crisis in sira with refugees who need a place to go. What is social work practice? (cid:862) o(cid:272)ial (cid:449)ork pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e esse(cid:374)tially (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of a series or process of interventionalist actions. The worker calls upon his or her repertoire of helping knowledge, skills and values and applies them in a particular way in specific situations to achieve a planned and purposeful change. While each situation will require a differe(cid:374)t patter(cid:374) of i(cid:374)ter(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374)(cid:894)s(cid:895), the pro(cid:272)ess or steps are esse(cid:374)tially the sa(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:894) hi(cid:272)k, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)6(cid:895) Social work is not a mechanical practice/process but rather an interplay of action, reflection, and more action. Casw: canadian association of social workers was founded in 1926. Caswe: canadian association of schools of social work was established in 1967 to replace the national.