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Theories used in social work practice provide essential tools for developing interventions targeting the client’s needs. Each approach offers unique insights into a client’s environment dynamics and how different factors can influence their behavior.
However, social work professionals bring their own diverse worldviews and personal values to practice, and must anticipate the eventuality of personal-professional value incongruence. This paper examines the concept of value incongruence with attention to the role of the self-concept.
Feb 7, 2023 · Self-determination theory (SDT) is an evidence-based approach to programs promoting behavioral change. Social work researchers are increasingly incorporating SDT into program planning and evaluation.
The review examines self-determination by decade, noting the social climate, the evolution of the profession, and how those factors impacted how social workers both define self-determination and promote it in practice.
Sep 9, 2019 · After conducting review and reflection over our observation and experience, the bases of social work practice can be summarized into four categories, namely, (1) relationship-based, (2) client-based, (3) evidence-based and (4) value-based.
- Patrick O’Leary, Ming-sum Tsui
- 2019
Sep 17, 2021 · The chapter introduces a broad definition to ethics and values in professional social work and sums up the main theoretical approaches to lay the foundation of the understanding and knowledge of social work ethical values.
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The use of Self means eficiently and rationally using the knowledge, skills, and values of the social work profession to enhance the well-being of a client— whether individual, group, community, or society as a whole. The notion of self forms the base of therapeutic social work.
