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Jul 10, 2014 · This paper discusses the key role that social workers have to play in supporting people who hoard, with a focus on the importance of relationship-building with service users. It argues that social workers are well placed to support people affected by this condition.
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Will You Use Theory as a Social Worker? 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.
Some sociological work examines how people actively and interactively perceive, experience, interpret, define, symbolize, negotiate, manage, and enact obesity, focusing on their social, cultural, and cognitive constructions of their own fatness or thinness as well as the body weights of others.
What social processes (social selection, social influence, both) impact weight among individuals within an online health social network? Social influence present: Individuals had a greater odds of losing weight if their social network contacts were also losing weight.
- Natalie R. Smith, Paul N. Zivich, Leah Frerichs
- 10.1007/s13668-020-00302-8
- 2020
- 2020/03
Jul 9, 2019 · This article critically evaluates medical and social constructionist approaches to obesity, within the context of a multidisciplinary life course paradigm, illuminating the importance of being cognisant of the strengths and weaknesses associated with both approaches.
- Lorraine Green, Lisa Moran, Nazira Vania
- 2020
The constructs of the socioecological model of health, which suggest that there are multiple levels of influence on individual behaviors, were used as a conceptual framework to synthesize studies authored by social work researchers investigating overweight and obesity risk factors.
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Jul 9, 2020 · Social workers should play a central role in reconfigured models of obesity care and given a growing recognition of this as an emerging social problem, such involvement is both needed, and appropriate.
