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| Ignoring prejudice and oppression |
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| When we ignore or underestimate the impact of discriminations and oppression, we reinforce the status qou and as a result, fail to acknowledge or challenge issues that are unique to oppressed groups. |
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When worldviews clash, rather than identifying one another as “different”, the one with power frequently identifies the other as “bad” while the one without power may either accept his judgment or may see it and the person or group who is making the judgment as “unreasonable.”
World views refer to the pattern of values and perceptions of the world that color our view of the world. Our worldview filters the information we receive from our world and determines the info we do or don’t pay attention to. Different people pay attention to statements and behaviors that reinforce their viewpoint, while dismissing or having conflict with others. As social workers, it is important we be aware of our own worldviews and values and keep them in check and apply critical thinking skills to increase our ability to be empathetic. |
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| Context from all angles (self, client, society, our past, and pre-conceived notions from the client about our context). |
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| Context is important because only in gathering additional information about a situation can we choose thoughtfully from among options and make a full inference. Context is about seeing the whole versus the parts. Genograms and timelines can help us gather more information about ourselves and about clients and our pasts to recognize how context affects situations that guide our decisions and actions. If we don’t look at a client’s context, it is easy to misinterpret the ways in which they behave and run the risk of blaming the client. |
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| When we see only parts instead of the whole, we believe that only one piece of the picture explains everything. When we ignore context, we are focusing on one piece of the picture and ignoring the whole. Failing to see how factors such as race, ethnicity, culture, family, history, or sexual orientation influence clients may further oppress clients. |
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Being unaware of contextual factors can generate a sense of hopelessness among individuals or groups that may perpetuate problems, which can be a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. For example; as a society, we tend to think that hard work and perseverance account for some of the differences between the economic statuses of individuals and tend to ignore situational and cultural factors and therefor end up blaming people for their lower economic statuses by claiming that they “didn’t work hard enough.” This blaming tends to cause the person to in turn blame themselves and say things like “why try? I won’t get the job anyway.”
To the degree that we accept the status quo without acknowledging the roles of context and by ignoring the sociopolitical uses of power and control, victims are twice injured |
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| Familial relationships within the contextual concept |
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| Knowledge about the nature of relationships among family members is important to acquire to understand a client’s behavior, situation and context. To understand a client’s family context, we can create a family genogram. |
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| Cultural variables that impact context. |
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| Culture directly contributes to people’s habits, communications patterns, family structures, values, norms, and expectations. Ignoring cultural factors that shape context, can cause people to draw false conclusions. |
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| Clients and goal identification. |
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| Work from the client’s set of values to determine client goals |
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| The worldview and the three-fold process. |
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| Diagnostic tools used to understand familial relationships. |
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Timelines
-Genograms
-Psychosocial histories
-Community genograms |
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| a line from birth to death that describes all major events that affect clients and their immediate family. |
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| Family genograms is a visual means of identifying and organizing hypotheses about familial factors that may contribute to the problem. Can show relationships, patterns of mental health diagnoses and substance about and major events of the family’s history. Most genograms include basic information. |
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| are frequently presented in written form and present the client with an opportunity to recognize problems, obstacles to change, find areas to strengthen, and possible resources. |
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| are similar to family genograms but instead they help the client and social worker understand the ways clients relate to the greater community. |
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| Identifying with values, beliefs, and behaviors as “good” and different ones as “problematic”. |
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| We see the best intentions in people who are like us, and we see adverse intentions in people who are different from us, especially if their difference is considered negative. When two worldviews clash, the one with the power frequently identifies the other as “bad” instead of recognizing it as just different |
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| Timelines provide an opportunity to look at clusters of stressors and the client’s reactions to them. A person who experiences four major stressors in a relatively quiet period can be expected to perceive these stressors differently than the person who has had major stressors throughout life. |
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| What hopefulness has to do with our client’s strengths. |
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| -Pointing out strengths in clients promotes hope by giving the client a sense of self-efficacy. Becoming aware of strengths, having a hopeful view of the future, accepting weaknesses, and planning for potential obstacles all have their place in therapy. |
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| Warm and empathetic phrases. |
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| Warmth must be applied when giving positive messages or they are lost or neglected. Saying you understand why a client must be feeling a certain way is empathetic but must also be said with warmth to convey that you truly mean it. |
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| Truly “seeing” the problem. |
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| Sometimes clients don’t see a problem because they have accepted a problematic occurrence throughout their lives as “normal.” It is important for us as social workers to help our clients see the problem, to help them see what they have mistakenly accepted as normal. |
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| Pg. 2- Spend a moment thinking about your own relationships with people you do and don’t like. How does this match the predictions of attribution theory? When do you tend to be generous in your reactions towards others? When do you tend to be stingy? |
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| Pg. 7- What if you blamed yourself for a tragedy you have experienced? How would accepting responsibility for the event be advantageous? Disadvantageous? |
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| Pg. 27- Make a family genogram. What patterns do you see in your life? How have the patterns differed from other cohorts? How has it been similar? How have these differences affected you? How have the things from your life you see as affecting you influence how you see a client’s problems? |
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| Pg. 44- Think about cultural groups that define your identity. |
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| Pg. 61- Have you ever been on a team for sport, a sorority, or a fraternity? How did you view the opposing team? If competition and prejudice developed, what factors contributed? What was diff. when your team did not react negatively to other teams or groups? |
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| Pg. 198- Think about something that was or is difficult for you to disclose. What was or is difficult about telling? If you were finally able to tell is, what was it about the situation or the person that made this possible? |
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