• Chapter 2 gives us a(n) historical perspective of social work- the moments, challenges ad possibilities in social work history in the past, is use as a tool for reflection on the present.
• According to the authors, we’re looking at this history in the context of “actors, institutions, and practices”; specifically, the roles of Charity Organization Societies and the Settlement House Movement in the U.S.
I. Why and How is History Important?
• To paraphrase, the text warns us that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it and that acts have been taken historically for the benefit of others, but have still caused harm (i.e. bleeding, purging, shackling, lobotomy).
• According to the authors, the welfare system is another example.
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Many of these children had horrible experiences and were treated very poorly.
III. Two types of ideologies emerged as the result of these segment of history.
• Charity Organization Societies saw disenfranchisement and social problems as the outgrowth of personal deficit (i.e. “If I don’t have a good paying job, it’s my fault—regardless of the history”).
- Often privileged white women, according to the text, would fill the role as counselors. They would go to poor communities and teach them lessons around thrift, saving money, and eating nutritiously.
- While there were still egregious problems with this model, it did advance the understanding of social work.
• The Settlement House model would come to fruition and help people learn what it was like to live in areas that they were unaccustomed to living in. Affluent white teens would move to urban areas and urban children were brought to suburban neighborhoods. This would start an area of participatory action where people would work alongside one another and deem what is needed in each of their own communities. Things like women’s suffrage can be traced to the outgrowth of such
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“there is no black criminality gene”, there was a different type of disenfranchisement going on—a disenfranchisement that would ignore the history of groups in the U.S. Native American groups for instance (during this period), could receive mental health assessment, but little attention was paid to the fact that early colonists stole their land and forced them to live on small federal areas of land set aside for them.
• The 1950’s were largely focused on the Red Scare—a war between the U.S. and Russia over communism v. free market capitalism. The 1960’s saw the rise of feminism and the Civil Rights Movement—which led to the 1970’s…
• The 1970’s saw the emergence of a systems perspective in social work. This systems perspective would seek to understand the individual, the community, and the society in which the individual lives. The systems perspective was another step forward, although it did not consider power structures.
• The Reagan and Bush Era presidencies would usher in a time that called for ending welfare benefits. Reagan and Bush (father and son) believed that private charities/ state governments should be responsible for the poor, rather than the federal
The book called ‘The Days in the Lives of Social Work’ by Linda May Grobman contain an article called ‘Involuntary Admission: A New Worker’s Introduction to the ‘603’’. The article introduces a person called Beth Boyett working in the therapy to help the patients with mental issues. The article teaches me lessons about being a social worker for example a core value called the called the “Importance of Human Relationship” that social worker try to form a good relationship with patients. Then the articles teach me about ethical standard that involves in “Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to Clients” to make a commitment to help patients. Finally the articles teach me about the social work practice that involves social work counseling with
Popple, P. R, & L. Leighninger. (2011). Social Work, Social Welfare, and American Society. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
The LPN-Team Lead contacted the social worker about Dr. Sundaram’s patient. The patient is a single, Caucasian grandmother and mother of two; she is alert and orientated to person, place and time. The patient reports that she lives with her 16 year old daughter and 3 month old granddaughter. The patient states that she works two jobs, one full-time and one part-time job and she assist with the care of her new granddaughter while her daughter is a work. The patient report that she is feeling (angry) and hurt because her boyfriend of 11 years cheated on her when she was in the hospital and left her a month ago; this and the loss of her child last year at 6 months gestation in addition to her CHF, COPD and influenza appears to have left the patient feeling of depression and hopelessness. The social worker noted that the patient scored a 19 on her PHQ-9, although she denies thoughts of suicide at this time. The patient states that she suffers from insomnia and gets approximately 2-3 hours of non-continuous sleep a night.
Sanger, Mary Bryna. The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization and Welfare Reform. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.
Welfare programs are an important part of American society. Without any type of American welfare, people will starve, children will not receive the proper education, and people will not receive any medical help simply because they do not have the resources available to them. Each of the three aspects of the American welfare system are unique in their own ways because they are funded differently and the benefits are given to different people. While support for these welfare systems has declined in the more recent years, the support for it when it was created was strong. There are three aspects of the American Welfare System that include social insurance programs, public assistance programs, and private or sector welfare.
Armed with an agenda consistent with his conservative beliefs, President Bush came forth with policies that attempted to downsize the federal role in social issues and social work, to return power to the states in the form of block grants, and to increase reliance on the market as a solution to problems. Like his father before him, Bush wanted a return to a time when helping a neighbor was something one did out of the goodness of the heart. To make the tax cuts he promised happen, Bush had to shave dollars from the welfare programs administered by social workers to the nation’s most downtrodden citizens.
Social work pursues to meet the demands and addresses the changing profession of fighting for human rights, improving social policies, and practice. I agree with the Abramovitz article that we have to know and understand the history of the social work profession. If people go without learning and comprehending the past, people cannot make accommodations for the future. Knowledge of the past will keep history alive, it will guide workers and their efforts to reform. The past also helps society in understanding programs that did not work. Society needs to understand the values that historical knowledge can bring positive changes in the future. Advocates for early social workers and their issues and concerns are still relevant in today's
The discipline of social work, although had been around for a sometime, was still emerging its professionalism. Social workers, as friendly visitors within the scientific charity organizations, had no professional boundaries as they investigated why clients’ were poor or needed aid. On the other hand, indiscriminative relief through the Salvation Army displaced no ethics, principle or process as to when or how to support and aid were to be distributed. The practice of social work was demonstrated through altruistic volunteers with common passions and their activeness in communities, yet they lacked adequate competence through relevant, efficient and effective training for workers and coherent purpose for organizations. Through class literature, we learned how the social work purpose was fostered by conflicting social welfare perspectives in previous centuries.
Theory is defined as “…”. In the social work profession, it is not enough to just understand the definition of theory, but rather be able to integrate theory into practice when working to plan interventions at multiple practice levels. This integration of theory into the social work practice is an emphasis of the profession as noted in the profession’s core competencies. Core competency 2.1.6 “engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research” (NASW code of ethics) is the basis for theory integration within the social work profession. The profession’s practice behaviors state that social workers must “use research evidence to inform practice” (NASW code of ethics). In other words, social workers should “attend to findings
Research is a necessity when it comes to providing services. Social Workers need it to be able to determine their clients ' needs, to see what resources/services they have access to and if their client doesn 't have much access where can they get it. Research is also used to see how effective an intervention is and whether it would be a right fit for their clients. It provides social service agents with ways to identify problems within their clients, communities, organizations, and the government. Also it helps them to create ways to aid in effective change. It is very beneficial when a social worker needs to "assess the needs and resources of people in their environments, evaluate the effectiveness of social work services in meeting people
This paper will explore the life of Mary Ellen Richmond – one of the most well-known Social Work advocates in the profession, the contributions she made to the Social Work profession, and the impact of those contributions. It will do so by exploring her background, the specific contributions she made, the populations these contributions affected, the impact of her contributions, and the practice implications.
The origins of social work in the United States mirror an ongoing growth of ideas put together from many different cultures. While modern social work here in the states was built on Christian ideas, many of its concepts are in part due to the influence of the Koran and the mutual aid practices of Native Americans, the African-American community, and immigrants from all over the world. Before the American Revolution, systems of helping the poor, child welfare, and even mental health services systems served a dual role of compassion and protection. By the early 19th century, private benevolent societies and self-help organizations, the predecessors of modern social service agencies, played increasing roles in this regard. The beginning of social work in the United States dates back to the efforts of upper-class women and men in church-based and secular charitable organizations to address the negative effects of poverty, urbanization, and immigration.
The social work profession is defined as “a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people (ISFW, ‘Global Definition of Social Work’, 2016).” The definition may be true about the profession but it is more in depth than just that. To me, the profession’s primary focus is to help others through life as much as we can while letting them make their own choices and guiding them. In society, social workers are utilized in many different nonprofit and government roles. They serve the community in many different ways from monitoring parent visits to helping people through mental illnesses. Human beings are so complex and things that happen
families, and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social workers are change agents and because of that, they aim to help people develop their skills and abilities to use resources provided to them to strengthen and improve their lives and communities to resolve problems. One of the main goal of social workers is to improve the well-being and lives of the most vulnerable populations, fight against poverty, unemployment, domestic violence and the underserviced population by emphasizing on the person-in-environment and social justice model. The social work profession, considerers the individuals’ internal and external struggles, while working with the individuals to examine their relationships, family, work environment, community, and other things that might impact them and identify ways to help address problems and challenges.
On July 7th I had an interview opportunity with the Oasis Shelter in Owensboro, Kentucky. This was one of the numerous opportunities that I placed on my possible field interest to receive an internship at. I met with the director of the Oasis shelter in Henderson, Kentucky that afternoon for the interview. The interview went well, and I informed the director that I was a Sociology undergrad student looking to expand my knowledge with domestic violence. Towards the end of the interview, the director informed me “we do not accept many Master of Social Work students because MSW’s are know it all. The student thinks they know more than individuals in the social work field with five or more years of knowledge.” I received the directors contact