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SWK 354 S1 Principles of family centric practice, Usage of a generalist…
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- Usage of a generalist approach for working with families at risk
- Many families SW see are burdened with multiple problems
- (1) Reinforce family strengths for them to achieve long term change
- (2) Create concrete changes in family functioning
- (3) Provide additional support following family therapy, so changes will be maintained
- (4) Build relationships between family & their environmental support
- (5) Address crisis need of family so that they can effectively address long term standing issue
- 2 or more people related through blood, ties of marriage, adoption or committed with each other comfortable
- Have a shared history
- Structure: Nuclear, extended, reconstructed, single parent, divorced
- Changing definition of family
- Social worker have to take account the different cultures, societal trend, demographic & laws that shape definition
- Exerts an enormous influence on families, providing sense of identity, belonging, rituals & continuity group
Culture identity: Provides a sense of belonging to a cultural
- A common pattern of behaviour and experience that will emerge when people live together
Ethnicity: Includes culture but also common ancestry
- Important for worker to be aware of their bias & ethnocentric views
- No culture is homogeneous, Heterogeneity occurs in a single culture
Acculturation: Involves the extent to which one group adopts value & practices
- Well being of members & society
- Offers predictability, structure & safety
- Families nurture and develop children's skills
- (1) Provide heterosexual experience for males
- (2) Contribute to continuity of race by producing & nurturing children
- (3) To cooperate economically dividing labours between adults
- (4) Maintain boundary so task can perform smoothy & stable r/s maintained
- (5) Transmit culture to children through teaching communication, expression of emotions, coping with intimate environment & roles
- (6) Recognise when one member reaches adulthood
- (7) Provide for the eventual care of parents by children
- Famiily of origin
- Family procreation ( a couple with children)
- Extended family
- Blended family
- Adoptive family
- Froster family
- Single parent family
- (1) Change in one family member affect other members
- (2) Family as a whole is more than the sum of its parts
- (3) Family try to balance change & stability (concept of homeostasis)
- (4) Famiy member's behaviours are best explained by circulatory causality
- (5) A family belongs to a larger social system and encompasses many subsystems
- (6) Family operates accordingly to established rules
- Disability: birth of physical or mentally challenged children possess many demands of family system
- Death (expected or unexpected)
- Suicide: Long lasting repercussion within family
- Alcohol and other substances abuse problem
- Family structure lie multiple levelled structure of system within subsystems
- Each member is part a number of (1) Parental subsystem (2) Sibling subsystem
- Spousal & parental subsystem
- Sibling subsystem
- Triangulation occurrence: 4 methods (1)Bring awareness (2)reversal of the usual pattern (3)Aim to talk in dyad (4) Shifting alliance
- Family pattern over several generations
- Genogram have the ability to capture intergenerational pattern and bring awareness to social worker
Differentiated people Able to maintain a psychological separation from others, separate emotion and independence from others
- (1) Families want to be healthy
- (2) Families want to stay together and overcome differences
- (3) Parents need understanding & support for the challenges involved in keeping relationships satisfying and raising children - (4) Parents can learn positive, effective ways of responding to their children they have opportunities to obtain support & knowledge and skills
- (5) Parents basic needs must be met before they can respond effectively and positively to the their children
- (6) Every family member need nurturing 7) Family members, regarding of gender or age, deserve respect from each other
- (8) child's emotional and behavioural difficulties should be viewed within the context of family and larger social environment
- (9) All people need to a family
- (10) Most family difficulties do not appear overtime but developed gradually over the years
- (11) A difference that exist between thoughts and actions in parenting
- (12) Families require fair and equal treatment from environmental systems
are interdependent, behaviours do not exist in vacuum