locating ph realities

• KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE:

  • tested
  • hypothetical
  • assumptive
• alfred kadushin states that knowledge base of social work is encompasses facts, theories, skills, & attitudes necessecary for an effective & effecient practice
• social welfare policies & services is concerned with organization, administration, & operation of social welfare programs & services which are established to meet needs
• social work practice refers to as social work methods
• social work practice is concerned w/ the actual process by which help is served
• HBSE - concerned w/ the material neccessary for understanding the client in his problem situation, the dynamics of individual & group behavior, and of group and community process which affects or influence the individual, the group, and the community
• biopsychosocial-spiritual being - means that there are inseperable, interacting forces, biological, psychological, social and spiritual that influence human behavior and personality
• INSEPERABLE INTERACTING FORCES IN HUMAN BEING:

  • biological
  • psychological
  • social
• Tested knowledge is knowledge that has been establish through scientific study
• Hypothetical knowledge still has to undergo transformation into tested knowledge, even if tentatively such knowledge may be accepted to explain certain facts
• Assumptive knowledge, or “practice wisdom”, of course, abound in social work. We can perhaps say that the more experience one has had in practice, the more assumptions or suppositions he tends to make to his work