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Work on behalf of clients to ensure they receive benefits they are entitled to
Address effects of legislation and policies
Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE) Committee
Support and elect candidates who support policies that affect social work
constituents, practice, and programs
But advocacy that involves action on a larger scale—for example, addressing the
effects of legislation and policies—cannot rely on the efforts of a single social worker.
Indeed, the profession has been and continues to be actively involved in addressing
many of these causes (Marsh, 2005). The shift in policy making from the federal to the
,state level is also an opportunity for you to join in collaborative advocacy to influence
policy at the state level on behalf of clients
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Case and cause advocacy
An assessment of social justice includes an examination of the nexus between the
problems that people have, the conditions in which they live, and the extent to which
social policies remedy or have an adverse impact on individuals, groups, and
communities. Using social justice as a framework to assess social problems and
conditions contributes to an understanding of the debilitating effects of inequality
and oppression that influence people's ability to reach their potential.
Social justice also leads to an inquiry about public policy and societal responses to
social problems and conditions, especially the power endowed in social welfare
organizations as agents of change.
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What Are the Social Justice Concerns Related to the Problem or
Condition?
Areas to consider and assess include the extent to which routine service delivery,
organizational policies and practices, and professional behavior retain clients' dignity.
For example, is client dignity compromised by the image of those who are in need as
presented by public policy, the media, funding resources, and the residual nature of
assistance? Additional factors are organizational practices and the behavior of
individual professionals. In some cases, organizations and staff may unintentionally
strip service recipients of their dignity by requiring them to go to unreasonable
lengths, for example, to establish eligibility for concrete aid or services.
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Promoting Dignity and Worth
A gap or discrepancy between a need considered to be a norm and the resources
that exist to respond to that need. For example, green space for children to play is
considered a developmental normative need and is available in most communities.
However, in other communities, the resource of green space does not exist.
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Normative needs
Interventions in the intimacy and differentiation stages
Promote conditions that aid members to make healthy choices in resolving issues
Intensify therapeutic group conditions
Enhance individual and group growth
Support a continuing trend toward differentiation
Focus on achieving members' goals
Establish a systematic method of monitoring treatment goals and tasks in sessions
Ensure that the issues and concerns worked on by the group resemble those that
members will encounter outside the group
Refer to a variety of situations and settings throughout the group experience to help
members practice and acquire skills
Facilitate members' discussion of how they will respond to possible setbacks in an
unsympathetic environment
Increase review and integration of learning
Several sessions before termination suggest that members consider using the
remaining time to complete their own agenda
In the working phase, leaders continue to promote conditions that aid members to
, make healthy choices in resolving issues by straightforwardly addressing and
resolving conflict, openly disclosing personal problems, taking responsibility for their
problems, and making progroup choices.
Leaders can also enhance individual and group growth by focusing on the universality
of underlying issues, feelings, and needs that members seem to share
In the working phase, leaders also support a continuing trend toward differentiation,
in which members establish their uniqueness and separateness from others. Leaders
do not create these expressions of differences but rather stimulate or advance them.
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Interventions in the Intimacy and Differentiation Stages
Relying on the group as key informants and cultural interpreters the social worker
gains an understanding of the group resource needs
. Beyond your efforts to assess and document a resource need, entry into a situation
that is unfamiliar to you requires interpersonal skills such as respectful preparation
and engagement, building trust and relationship resources, and facilitating
empowerment. In addition, unfamiliar situations call for you to engage in self-
reflection so that you are aware of your bias and any predetermined notions you
might have of a particular group.
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Developing Resources with Diverse Groups
The first-order change strategies reviewed below are all directed to helping families
overcome challenges that disrupt their equilibrium, helping them to return to a state
of homeostasis. They work with resources within families as currently structured to
enable them to mitigate family system stress without focusing on such family system
1-103 of 103
Select a term to match it with its definition
Work on behalf of clients to ensure they receive benefits they are entitled to
Address effects of legislation and policies
Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE) Committee
Support and elect candidates who support policies that affect social work
constituents, practice, and programs
But advocacy that involves action on a larger scale—for example, addressing the
effects of legislation and policies—cannot rely on the efforts of a single social worker.
Indeed, the profession has been and continues to be actively involved in addressing
many of these causes (Marsh, 2005). The shift in policy making from the federal to the
,state level is also an opportunity for you to join in collaborative advocacy to influence
policy at the state level on behalf of clients
Give this one a go later!
Case and cause advocacy
An assessment of social justice includes an examination of the nexus between the
problems that people have, the conditions in which they live, and the extent to which
social policies remedy or have an adverse impact on individuals, groups, and
communities. Using social justice as a framework to assess social problems and
conditions contributes to an understanding of the debilitating effects of inequality
and oppression that influence people's ability to reach their potential.
Social justice also leads to an inquiry about public policy and societal responses to
social problems and conditions, especially the power endowed in social welfare
organizations as agents of change.
Give this one a go later!
What Are the Social Justice Concerns Related to the Problem or
Condition?
Areas to consider and assess include the extent to which routine service delivery,
organizational policies and practices, and professional behavior retain clients' dignity.
For example, is client dignity compromised by the image of those who are in need as
presented by public policy, the media, funding resources, and the residual nature of
assistance? Additional factors are organizational practices and the behavior of
individual professionals. In some cases, organizations and staff may unintentionally
strip service recipients of their dignity by requiring them to go to unreasonable
lengths, for example, to establish eligibility for concrete aid or services.
,Give this one a go later!
Promoting Dignity and Worth
A gap or discrepancy between a need considered to be a norm and the resources
that exist to respond to that need. For example, green space for children to play is
considered a developmental normative need and is available in most communities.
However, in other communities, the resource of green space does not exist.
Give this one a go later!
Normative needs
Interventions in the intimacy and differentiation stages
Promote conditions that aid members to make healthy choices in resolving issues
Intensify therapeutic group conditions
Enhance individual and group growth
Support a continuing trend toward differentiation
Focus on achieving members' goals
Establish a systematic method of monitoring treatment goals and tasks in sessions
Ensure that the issues and concerns worked on by the group resemble those that
members will encounter outside the group
Refer to a variety of situations and settings throughout the group experience to help
members practice and acquire skills
Facilitate members' discussion of how they will respond to possible setbacks in an
unsympathetic environment
Increase review and integration of learning
Several sessions before termination suggest that members consider using the
remaining time to complete their own agenda
In the working phase, leaders continue to promote conditions that aid members to
, make healthy choices in resolving issues by straightforwardly addressing and
resolving conflict, openly disclosing personal problems, taking responsibility for their
problems, and making progroup choices.
Leaders can also enhance individual and group growth by focusing on the universality
of underlying issues, feelings, and needs that members seem to share
In the working phase, leaders also support a continuing trend toward differentiation,
in which members establish their uniqueness and separateness from others. Leaders
do not create these expressions of differences but rather stimulate or advance them.
Give this one a go later!
Interventions in the Intimacy and Differentiation Stages
Relying on the group as key informants and cultural interpreters the social worker
gains an understanding of the group resource needs
. Beyond your efforts to assess and document a resource need, entry into a situation
that is unfamiliar to you requires interpersonal skills such as respectful preparation
and engagement, building trust and relationship resources, and facilitating
empowerment. In addition, unfamiliar situations call for you to engage in self-
reflection so that you are aware of your bias and any predetermined notions you
might have of a particular group.
Give this one a go later!
Developing Resources with Diverse Groups
The first-order change strategies reviewed below are all directed to helping families
overcome challenges that disrupt their equilibrium, helping them to return to a state
of homeostasis. They work with resources within families as currently structured to
enable them to mitigate family system stress without focusing on such family system
