UID:
edoccha_9960005052102883
Format:
1 online resource (270 p.)
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-135-40705-3
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1-315-04340-8
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1-135-40698-7
Series Statement:
Haworth social work practice Social work practice
Content:
Replete with numerous diagrams, charts, tables, and exercises, the second edition of Social Work Practice: A Systems Approach brings alive the systems model of social work practice. Learning systems analysis will lead you to a more dynamic view of reality. With this book as a guide, you are sure to give your social work practice the overhaul it needs. This user-friendly text will allow you to integrate micro and macro modes of intervention, sensitize your practice, enhance your conflict resolution skills, and analyze system-environment structures and currents.The basis for popular ec
Note:
First published 1997 by the Haworth Press, Inc.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why Bother with Systems?; Chapter Outline; A Personal Note; Chapter 1. Social Systems and Their Environments; Introduction to the Systems Idea; People as the Focus; The Individual as a System; A Person-Environment Model; Expressing System Principles Visually; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 2. Some Characteristics of Open Systems; Introduction; Helping the P. Family: A Case Report; Definitions and Concepts; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 3. Additional Characteristics of Open Systems
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IntroductionThe Betty D. Situation: A Case Report; More Definitions and Concepts; Communications and System-Environment Relations; Functions; Manifest and Latent Functions; Coherence; Review of the Systems Model; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 4. System Change; Introduction; What is "Change"?; Some Conditions That Lead to Social Change; Change in Systemic Terms; Change Versus Progress; System Change at the Personal Level; System Change at the Organizational Level; A Systems Analysis of Organizational Change; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 5. Systems Analysis of Some Social Work Practices
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IntroductionDefining Problems and Needs Systemically; Systemic Models of Human Development and Behavior; Creating a New Agency: A Case Report; Client, Action, and Target Systems; Stages of the Action Episode; Input or Boundary Management; Throughput Management; Feedback Management; Influencing Policy; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 6. A Systems Model of Conflict Resolution; Introduction; Some Preliminary Thoughts about Conflict; Four Components of All Conflicts; Five Potential Outcomes; Selective Intervention Suggestions; Conflict Mediation as a Professional Role; Summary; Exercises
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Chapter 7. Implications and ConclusionsThe Systems Model as Practice Theory; A Review of the Systems Model; Meshing Everything Together; Limitations of Systems Analysis; Usefulness of the Systems Approach; Environments and Individual Development: Coda; Further Observations on Systems-Oriented Social Work; Appendix A. The Systems Approach As a Model; Introduction; Paradigm Shift in Recent Times; The Beginnings of Systems Thinking; Systems Thinking in the Social Sciences; Systems Thinking in Social Work
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Appendix B. Outline of a Suggested One-Semester MA Course on "Systems Analysis in Social Work"Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7890-0246-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7890-0137-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315043401
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