This week’s reading covered social justice and the global community. In the text it discussed how global issues such as poverty and economic inequality affect everyone. It also discussed the economic inequality right here in the United States in which the gap between the very rich and the very poor is becoming more clear every […]
This week’s reading covered diversity, populations-at-risk, and empowerment in the macro social environment. The chapter discussed how African-Americans, Hispanics, GLBT people and women still faced many challenges in today’s society. The chapter explained that several things have been done to help these groups establish themselves within the community. African-Americans have established support groups, women have […]
This week’s reading covered assessment of geographic communities. I found it somewhat odd that the recent readings were dealing with communities and the roles in which we play in them at a time when our country is facing as series of protest and sit in’s designed to address these very things. At the beginning of […]
This week’s reading covered communities in the Macro Social Environment. The chapter started out explaining the concept of a community which it described as “a number of people who had something in common with one another that connects them in some way and that distinguishes them from others” (Homan, 2008, p. 8). As I read […]
The readings this week covered knowledge and theories about organizations. The chapter several organizational theories including the Classical Organizational, Human Relations, Feminist and Culture-Quality Ecosystems. It discussed how we have evolved from the Classical model in which the workplace was rigid and workers were told what to do with close supervision, to the other more […]
The reading this week covered human behavior in groups. The article explained that there are many different things that go into making a successful group such as being able to work through problems, communication, and the roles in which each individual in the group plays while trying to implement the program. After reading the material […]
Narrative Theory……Where do I start? Unlike most people this theory has a special place in my education and in my personal life. Where reading the chapter this week it was the first time I had heard of it however not the first time I seen it. Upon starting school at Southern Adventist University I was […]
This week’s reading covered motivational interviewing which seems to be used quite a bit with substance abuse treatment programs. These types of interventions are meant to be brief in which it is only a few sessions before the client is either moved on into some other type of treatment or released altogether. One thing that […]
This week’s reading covered Solution-Focused Therapy which is in stark contrast to most other types of therapy in that this one focuses on short-term intervention. Like most other models the worker/client relationship is a vital role however in the solution model not too much time is spent at the onset of the therapy trying to […]
In reading the chapter this week which covered the structural family theory the text explained how this theory unlike many others does not focus on the emotional lives of the parties involved as much as on the structure of the family. The theory forces the social worker and the families to both become active in […]
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