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Chapter Two
The Context of Social Work Practice
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Text Analysis
• Features of Privatization of Our Contemporary Context
• Contextualizing Social Work Practice
• An Example of Contextualizing Practice
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Thinking:
There are various dilemmas and conflicts for practitioners if social work is to attain a professional status. List three major conflicts that you feel social workers will face, summarize the main elements of the conflict, and decide how you think the conflicts could be resolved.
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Three main conflicts:1、 The dominant culture of private individualis
m
Poverty
AIDS
Homelessness
Homosexual
Racism
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• Hunger and World Poverty
• About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.
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• AIDS
• AIDS is now second only to the Black Death as the largest epidemic in history. AIDS kills over 2 million people a year, or about one person every 15 seconds. This death toll surprisingly includes a lot of children, who are often infected with the HIV virus during pregnancy or through breast-feeding. The toll is worst in Africa.
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International Aid ― A Solution
• Quick Summary: Almost all of the deaths from hunger and disease that you see on this site can be stopped. The cost to do this is about $195 billion a year, according to the United Nations. Twenty-two developed countries below have pledged to work towards each giving 0.7% (a little less than 1%) of their national income in international aid, which would raise the $195 billion. Some countries are slow to meet their pledge.
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• 2、 The sense of social interaction is weakened
Private spaces make people feel no need to communicate with others.
3、 Definitions of the public good become narrower.
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How to resolve?
(1) Establishing an integrated work practice.
• × turn away from individual work
• × adopt macro practice
• √ to draw a connection between the personal and the social .
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(2) Refocusing social work education on power
It lies a critical contextualization that focus on power
• → establish a larger political frame work
• → draw micro practice into social change
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(3) Putting macro social work analysis and practice at the base of social work practice
Micro theory --- individual case in social work practice
Macro theory--- knowledge and framework
The twos should be conjunct in playing roles.
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(4) Understanding the political nature of social work practice
Goal--- help the person or group to find the root
of the problem
(5) A social change ideology in social work practice
Ideology leads actions.
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• (6) Emphasizing collective processes and strategies in social work practice
• (7) Connecting community, class, and culture in social work practice
• Northern & Southern hemisphere:
economy politics culture• → seek to bridge the gap
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An example of contextualized practice
• PIVOT project:
raise the consciousness of male batters as an integral part of the program’s work to address violence against women.
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Large groups → Macro contextualization:
--- consider the individual issue as a collective one
Small group and individual counseling →Macro contextualization of orientation session:
---the critique of patriarchy and violence