Social Work Practice: A Systems Approach, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780789002464 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 172 str.

Benyamin Chetkow-Yanoov; B. Chetkow-Yanoov

Opis

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, as well as key systems-oriented concepts and issues. Learning systems analysis will lead you to a more dynamic view of reality, and with this book as a guide, you are sure to give your social work practice the overhaul it needs. Don't allow fragmented perspectives and ideas to characterize your practice. This user-friendly book 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.

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Contents
Foreword (Shula Albeck)

• Acknowledgments
• 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
• Introduction
• The 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
• A Systems Analysis of Organizational Change
• Summary
• Exercises
• Chapter 5. Systems Analysis of Some Social Work Practices
• Introduction
• Defining 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
• Chapter 7. Implications and Conclusions
• The 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
• Appendix B. Outline of a Suggested One-Semester MA Course on “Systems Analysis in Social Work”
• Bibliography
• Index

O autorze

Benyamin Chetkow-Yanoov