Introduction
Through out the time spent in the course I learned important aspects of Social Work. Although the readings were challenging at times, but in class always doubts were cleared and I had an understanding as to what the author was talking about. The assignments allowed having a good understanding of a social issue and what a particular agency is doing in order to work with people currently challenged by the social issue. On the first paper we explored the social issue, on the second we dove in and interviewed a Social Worker and explore their work around the social issue. Finally, this paper, that also requires an interview, where we will explore the interviewee’s strengths and limitations as well as other aspect of their practice. …show more content…
In other words, so there is a clearer path towards serving a community and the clients with in it. In the article “Excerpts from Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services”, the authors Brian Wharf and Brad McKenzie points out that “Gil, views social policies as ‘guiding principles for ways of life, motivated by basic and perceived human needs’”(2009). Wharf and McKenzie further notes, that there must be a distinction between “grand” and “ordinary” issues (2009). Ordinary issue is dealt with locally, for example a town or city and the grand issue is dealt with at a national or provincial level.
By reflecting on the “grand” issue it is not hard to think about globalization and the influence of colonialism even in the present. In the article “Globalization Then and Now”, the author, Wayne Ellwood, brings up the point that even though globalization maybe a modern term, it is a term that is deeply rooted in “the history of colonialism” (2010). A system that it is extremely evident as you see the inequity in Canadian soil; Ongweoweh reserves are like third world countries within a third world country not to mention in nations on the …show more content…
Healy mentions and quoting Carel Germain and Alex Gitterman that, “application of ecosystems perspectives using ‘the life model of social work practice’ “ (2014). Healey further explains that the model is characterized by three stages, initial, ongoing and ending. The initial stage is segregated for the “social worker and client to establish an active partnership” (2014). Followed by the “ongoing phase: working towards goals”, according to Healey in this phase “an ecological assessment forms the foundation of practice” (2014). With its central skills, which are, “goal clarification, facilitation, coordination, and individual and systematic advocacy “ (Healey, 2014). Alluding to the third and last phase, the ending phase. Healey mentions and quoting Germain and Gitterman that “A well planned termination of the intervention is integral to the overall structure of the system approach”
Through out the time spent in the course I learned important aspects of Social Work. Although the readings were challenging at times, but in class always doubts were cleared and I had an understanding as to what the author was talking about. The assignments allowed having a good understanding of a social issue and what a particular agency is doing in order to work with people currently challenged by the social issue. On the first paper we explored the social issue, on the second we dove in and interviewed a Social Worker and explore their work around the social issue. Finally, this paper, that also requires an interview, where we will explore the interviewee’s strengths and limitations as well as other aspect of their practice. …show more content…
In other words, so there is a clearer path towards serving a community and the clients with in it. In the article “Excerpts from Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services”, the authors Brian Wharf and Brad McKenzie points out that “Gil, views social policies as ‘guiding principles for ways of life, motivated by basic and perceived human needs’”(2009). Wharf and McKenzie further notes, that there must be a distinction between “grand” and “ordinary” issues (2009). Ordinary issue is dealt with locally, for example a town or city and the grand issue is dealt with at a national or provincial level.
By reflecting on the “grand” issue it is not hard to think about globalization and the influence of colonialism even in the present. In the article “Globalization Then and Now”, the author, Wayne Ellwood, brings up the point that even though globalization maybe a modern term, it is a term that is deeply rooted in “the history of colonialism” (2010). A system that it is extremely evident as you see the inequity in Canadian soil; Ongweoweh reserves are like third world countries within a third world country not to mention in nations on the …show more content…
Healy mentions and quoting Carel Germain and Alex Gitterman that, “application of ecosystems perspectives using ‘the life model of social work practice’ “ (2014). Healey further explains that the model is characterized by three stages, initial, ongoing and ending. The initial stage is segregated for the “social worker and client to establish an active partnership” (2014). Followed by the “ongoing phase: working towards goals”, according to Healey in this phase “an ecological assessment forms the foundation of practice” (2014). With its central skills, which are, “goal clarification, facilitation, coordination, and individual and systematic advocacy “ (Healey, 2014). Alluding to the third and last phase, the ending phase. Healey mentions and quoting Germain and Gitterman that “A well planned termination of the intervention is integral to the overall structure of the system approach”