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Social Workers tend to approach practice assuming that they and their clients are realtively insulated from external policies
These mythology has led the profession to develop practice theories that focus heavily on teh individual dimension of problems, causing a general disinterest in thier policy context |
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"Social work's unique and distinctive contribution to American life, often expressed as a dual focus on the person and his/her environment, resulted from a specific frame of reference that linked clients and social policy"
Don't concentrate on the individuals needs also in community need |
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| occurs when an individual is not adequately fulfilling a role and social institutions are not providing adequate supports to enable the individual to fulfill a role and this causes problems for the community that requires response |
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| When an individual is doing everything necessary to fulfill a role and the appropiate social institutions are functioning well enough to support the person's role performance |
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Helping individuals having difficulty meeting individual role expectations
SW practice with individuals,families, and small groups |
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Help fulfill aspects of social institutions that fail to support individuals in fulfilling role expectations
SW administration, policy, and planning is what is concerned with in the study of scal welfare policy |
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