Chapter 5 Lecture 2 Flashcards
What does it mean to pathologize?
Ya know what it means….. Just keep it in mind for the test.
what are the 5 Principles of Strengths Perspective?
- Every individual/Community has strengths
- Trauma/abuse are injurious but they may be a source of challenge and opportunity as well.
- The professional does not know the upper limits of growth and possibilities.
- People are best served when we collaborate with them.
- Every environment is full of resources.
True or false:
Focus on strengths motivates, inspires and gets more attention as focusing on deficits.
FALSE!!!!!
True or false: Attracting government funding is more likely with a strength’s focus.
False
True or False: When community deficits are the main approach to helping , funds are directed to services rather than people:
True
True or False: When community deficits are the main approach to helping, help from outside the community is brought in to intervene.
True
True or False: When community deficits are the main approach to helping, a top down approach is applied.
True
List 6 principles / values of Asset Mapping:
- All communities have strengths, assets and resources
- Community members must participate in decisions that affect their lives
- A collaborative process is an ethical requirement in human relationships
- Any intervention should reflect the input and priorities of community members
- Cultural humility must guide social workers
- All participants in the process communicate in the spirit of collegiality, mutual respect and support.
What is capacity building?
- Capacity building is often used interchangeably with terms such as community building, locality development, and community empowerment
- A process when an individual with an identified problem joins with others to address their own needs as well as addressing the needs of others in the community.
- Capacity building therefore is an empowerment process at the individual, interpersonal, and community
levels as participants gain knowledge and skills to effect action
What are Social Networks?
relatives, friends, and colleagues form a
support system and respond when there are crises. Social networks are emotionally sustaining
and often assist with child care or looking out for neighbors.
What is an Informal neighborhood group? -
Neighborhood associations, child care exchanges,
and neighbor-to-neighbor interactions are indicators of the extent of support available
within this unit.
What is mutual support?
Because networks do not have established boundaries and depend on interaction between
informal individuals and groups, they are likely to extend beyond the local community.
Mutual support tasks may be provided by geographically dispersed, as well as
geographically close, network members.
True of false: The presence/absence of a social support network indicates the level of social identity and belongingness.
True
What components are typically found in community and social work practice models? (GRPTASRR)
- A change GOAL
- ROLE for staff/leaders/members
- A PROCESS for selecting issues
- The TARGET of the change effort
- ASSESSING how cooperative or adversarial the target will be
- A change STRATEGY
- RESOURCES needed to produce change
- ROLES of the organization in the change
What are the three intervention approaches apart of the multimodal approach?
- Policy & planning - (assumes logic will prevail over politics / assisting the process / data driven approach / task oriented)
- Capacity development - (develops community’s ability to become more integrated and cohesive, collaborative efforts, process builds relationships and solves problems)
Social advocacy - (seeks to shift power relationships and resources, pressure is applied and conflict is expected, empowerment is achieved when community members feel a sense of mastery in influencing community decision making)
- Capacity development - (develops community’s ability to become more integrated and cohesive, collaborative efforts, process builds relationships and solves problems)
