SW 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cengage Learning, Family Therapy, Substance Abuse
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Chapter 2: ways of understanding and perceiving self and others. Constructivism: realizing that each person constructs reality in their own unique way. Family systems: seeing families as systems in which each person impacts the others and the whole system. Ecological: knowing the many effects of the environment on individuals, family, and groups. Strengths: identifying the strengths in individuals, families, groups, and organizations. Resilience: seeing the capacity that individuals, families, and groups use to cope in difficult situations. Empowerment: encouraging people to deal with and learn from challenges. Dual perspective: seeing that many people need to constantly adapt to living in more than one culture. Defining the constructivist perspective: constructivism: identifies how individuals describe their experience in terms of personal constructs. Defined by george kelly: personal construct: an explanation of an event or series of events that becomes the lens through which the individual sees the world. Developed as individuals interpret and give meaning to their experiences.
