Macro Practice In Social Work

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Social work practice is usually associated with working directly with a client in a facility or providing a home for a child. However, the social worker also associated themselves on a more larger scale to address issues and make changes in their community or even the world. In a macro-level, social workers focus on the community and the more large-scale like issues in the community. As a macro-social worker, they tend to work with large groups of individuals, communities, or major organizations. Therefore, endeavoring in a workplace is a concern for social workers as becoming competent in organizations is an important aspect of this type of social work. The ability to adjust to the culture of the workplace in these type of macro practices are often overwhelming to a social …show more content…

In order to successfully achieve in addressing the issues that affect the community or the world social workers have to know what it means to work on a macro-level practice. This type of practice is working on our larger level. Instead of having that one-on-one clinical social work with a client these type of social worker addresses their client’s issues by working on the policies and making changes that need to be done for the benefit of their clients. In other words, macro social worker usually works in an organization that engaged in changing policies for the benefit of the community or for the benefit of that organization’s clients as a whole. For instance, an example of this type of practice is the program coordinator for the mental health in my field, Edison Job Corps. The program coordinator ultimately made the decisions on what is needed and not needed for the clients on the center. In order to be a successful macro social worker, there is a need to be a

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