Models Of Social Work

• Direct Provision Model


  The direct administration of existing programs of material aid, where resources may be mobilized, created, and directly furnished
• Intercession-Mediation Model


  The process of negotiating the service jungle for clients. The worker connects the client to need services in the system unit he or she availed of them.
• Mobilizing Resources of Clients System to Change theirRealities


  A model of intervention premised on the belief that problems are not always due to personal inadequacies, but, often, to deficiencies in the social reality.
• Crisis Intervention Approach


  "search and find approach", because this involves warm and emphatic reaching out. A process for actively influencing the psycho-social functioning of individuals during the period of acute disequilibrium.
• Crisis


  An upset in a state or an emotional reaction on the part of an individual and family to a threatening life event.
• Problem-Solving Model


  The goal of this model is to help a person cope as effectively as possible with problems in carrying on social tasks and relationship which are perceived, felt as stressful and found insuperable without outside help.
• Elements of Problem-Solving Model

  • The Person: product of inherited and constitutional make up in continuous transaction with potent persons and forces in life experiences
  • The Problem: simply a problem in the current life situation of the help- seeker, which disturbs or hurts the latter in some way
  • The Place the particular organization, agency or social situation, the purposes of which define its functions, services, and its areas of social concern
  • The Process steps of study, diagnosis and treatment
• Task-Centered Model


  Alleviating specific problems perceived by clients, that is, particular problems clients recognize, understand, acknowledge, and want to attend to.
• Psychosocial Model


  Also known as organismic approach, differential treatment approach, and diagnostic approach.
• Three Types of Diagnosis

  • Dynamic: Examination aspects of the client's personality interact to produce his total functioning, the interplay between the client and other systems, ad the dynamics of family interaction
  • Etiological: The cause or origin of the difficulty usually multiple factors in the person-situation configuration
  • Classificatory: Classifies various aspects of the clients functioning and his place in the world including, if possible, a clinical diagnosis (refers to classify based on personality disturbance) classifying individuals according to socio economic class, race, ethnic background and religion
• Treatment in Psychosocial Approach

  • Indirect treatment: The worker intervenes directly in the environment of their client by obtaining needed resources and modifying the client's situation when change in his situation is necessary
  • Direct treatment: Involves direct work with the client himself or what Hollis describes as the influence of mind upon mind
• Functional Approach


  The 'use of agency function' as basic social work helping.
• Behavioral Modification


  Intended to improve the social functioning of individuals and families by helping them learn new behaviors and eliminating problematic ways of behaving.
• Social work process


  The process that furthers the effectiveness of social work
• Behavioral modification approach


  Intended to improve social functioning by helping individuals and families learn new behaviors and eliminate problematic behaviors
• Family intervention


  Primary learning takes place within the family, social workers recognize the important role of the family
• Forms of family therapy

  • Family therapy
  • Family-focused work
• Tools for assessment and treatment planning

  • Genogram
  • Eco-map
• Developmental approach


  Sees people on a scale from socially functional to dysfunctional to eufunctional, concerned with tapping unused potential
• Three major themes of developmental approach

  • Humanistic
  • Phenomenological
  • Developmental
• Interactionist approach


  Mediates the process through which the individual and society reach out to each other through mutual need for self-fulfillment
• Remedial approach


  Focuses on using guided group processes to treat and rehabilitate individuals whose behavior is disapproved or who have been disadvantaged
• Community organizing


  An important field of social work practice in the Philippines, shifted from one-to-one to more mass-oriented, community-based practice
• Integrated Method of Social Work Practice


  Supports the idea of a generalist practitioner rather than a specialist
• Integrated Method of Social Work Practice is different from integrated programs (or services) which denote a comprehensive agency program for multi-problem clients
• Generalist Social Work Practice


  The use of a range of skills as needed to intervene in a variety of client life situations
• Levels of intervention for generalist social workers

  • Micro level (work with people individually, in families, or in small groups)
  • Mezzo level (create changes in task groups, teams, organizations, and the network of service delivery)
  • Macro level (address social problems in community, institutional, and societal systems)
• Generalist practitioners address issues within the system of the social work profession itself
• Use of self


  An essential under-pinning to best practice in the profession of social work
• Self-concept


  The image that we have of ourselves
• Self-concept is particularly influenced by our interactions with important people in our lives
• Self-concept


  our perception or image of our abilities and our uniqueness.
• Functional Approach


  The use of agency function as basic social work helping
• Agency


  • Focus on helping Person With Disability
• Behavioral Modification


  • Focuses on the client's behavior that causes their dysfunction
  • Aims to eliminate problematic behaviors
• Three Elements of Behavioral Modification

  • Target Behavior: Eliminating the problematic behavior
  • Antecedent: Prior to the Target Behavior, the problem
  • Consequent Behavior: Other behaviors resulting from the bound problematic behavior
• Family Intervention Approach


  Recognizes the role of the family during the helping process to reach the desired outcome for the client
• Interactionist Approach


  Working with a group to help them access specific services, the social worker's function is to mediate the transaction
• Remedial Approach


  Working with a group that exhibits problematic behavior affecting their surroundings
• Generic Approach


  A type of approach that does not require assessment