SW113

• Social work administration is a method of social work concerned with the provision and distribution of societal resources so as to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their potential.
• Social planning emphasizes a technical process of problem-solving with regard to substantive social problems.
• Social planning emphasizes the application of rational problem-solving techniques and data-driven approaches to identify, determine, and help coordinate services for target populations.
• Social planning is the evolvement of plans to meet the requirements of development.
• Social planning is the integration of social aims and programs into the development plan with specific reference to the human services.
• Social planning is the process of forecasting social goals or targets and then a plan to address them.
• Sustainable development is development that meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations.
• The pillars/components of sustainability are social, environmental, and economic.
• Social sustainability involves a focus on the well-being of people and communities, promoting equity, human rights, access to education and health care, and decent work.
• Environmental sustainability is the ability to preserve and protect the natural environment over time through appropriate practices and policies, meeting present needs without compromising the availability of resources in the future.
• Economic sustainability is the approach whereby economic activities are conducted in such a way as to preserve and promote long-term economic well-being.
• Participatory development is a process through which stakeholders can influence and share control over development initiatives, and over the decisions and resources that affect themselves.
• Rights based approach is a conceptual framework for the process of human development that is normatively based on international human rights standards and operationally directed to promoting and protecting human rights.
• Strengths based perspective directs the social worker to identify and build on the client strengths.
• Client Strengths can be defined as any attribute, capacity, or experience that contributes to a satisfying life and effective social functioning.
• Definition of Psychological Disorder
• DSM 5 was published

  2013
• Psychological Dysfunction


  A breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning
• Distress


  The behavior must be associated with distress to be classified as a disorder
• Impairment


  The behavior must be associated with impairment in functioning to be classified as a disorder
• Behavior that deviates from the average or violates social norms is considered atypical or not culturally expected
• Robert Sapolsky: 'Worked closely with the Masai people in East Africa. A woman had been acting aggressively, hearing voices, and killed a goat with her own hands. This behavior was atypical as only men killed goats and hearing voices was considered wrong'
• Psychopathology


  The scientific study of psychological disorders
• Types of Psychologists


  • Counseling Psychologists
  • Clinical Psychologists
• Types of Mental Health Professionals

  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychiatric Social Workers
  • Psychiatric Nurses
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Mental Health Counselors
• Psy.D.


  • Focus on clinical training and de-emphasize or eliminate research training
• Ph.D.


  • Integrate clinical and research training
• Scientist-Practitioner


  Keep up with the latest scientific developments, evaluate their own assessments or treatment procedures, conduct research
• Course of a disorder

  1. Chronic Course

  2. Episodic Course

  3. Time-Limited Course
• Onset of a disorder

  1. Acute Onset

  2. Insidious Onset
• Prognosis


  The anticipated course of a disorder
• Branches of Psychology


  • Developmental Psychology
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Life-Span Developmental Psychopathology
• Etiology


  The study of origins and reasons why a disorder begins
• Developmental Psychopathology


  Study of changes in abnormal behavior
• Life-Span Developmental Psychopathology


  Study of abnormal behavior across the entire age span
• Etiology


  The study of origins and has to do with why a disorder begins (what causes it) and includes biological, psychological, and social dimensions
• Historical Conceptions of Abnormal Behavior

  • The Supernatural Tradition
  • The Biological Tradition
• Psychological disorders were seen as the work of the devil and witches in the last quarter of the 14th century
• Individuals possessed by evil spirits were probably responsible for any misfortune experienced by people in the local community
• Treatment for Demons and Witches

  1. Magic and sorcery

  2. Exorcism

  3. Shaving the pattern of a cross in the hair of the victim’s head

  4. Securing sufferers to a wall near the front of a church so that they might benefit from hearing Mass