The Hero(ine) on a Journey: A Postmodern Conceptual Framework for Social Work Practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Dybicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice

Children: Practice Interventions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony N. Maluccio
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
Child Guidance

Social work has a long tradition of direct practice with children in a range of settings, such as child welfare, child guidance, hospitals, schools, and neighborhood centers. This entry focuses on general principles and strategies for direct social work practice with preadolescents and, to a lesser extent, their families, within an eclectic conceptual framework.

Inspiring hope through social work practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Boddy ◽  
Patrick O’Leary ◽  
Ming-sum Tsui ◽  
Chui-man Pak ◽  
Duu-Chiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Work Relationships ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
The Future

Hope has dynamic features that look to the future and motivate people. Yet despite being synonymous with social work, psychological terms have tended to define hope’s perimeters. Its role in social work is often heralded, yet its unique, critical and temporal role has not been well mapped in social work theory. This article explores the use of hope in social work practice. A conceptual framework highlights the richness of hope, its application in social work practice and its position in social work relationships. The implications for direct practice, further research and professional education are also discussed.

Risk, protection, and resilience: Toward a conceptual framework for social work practice

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Fraser ◽  
M. J. Galinsky ◽  
J. M. Richman
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Risk Protection

Theorising social workers’ experiences of self‑conscious emotions

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Matthew Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Defensive Strategy ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
The Moment

This chapter provides a conceptual framework to understand the processes, relevant to self-conscious emotions, through which social workers come to acquiesce or resist organisational attempts at control. It first outlines the research on compliance and resistance in social work practice before developing and extending these ideas through the analysis of pride and shame in professional practice. Drawing on Oliver’s (1991) analysis of strategic responses within organisations to wider institutional processes, how social workers perform professional practice in the context of organisational attempts at control, and the strategies that social workers employ to manage the organisational pressures, expectations and demands, are outlined. While some social workers can actively identify with the organisational representation in the moment, motivating them to enact its meanings and expectations, some reluctantly identify with it as a defensive strategy to avoid being shamed and humiliated, motivating them to comply despite reservation. However, some social workers, in some contexts, resist the organisational representation, feeling unable to comply, and, therefore, seek to compromise what they are expected to do, conceal their acts of resistance or influence the source of organisational attempts at control.

The Chronically Mentally III: A Practice Approach

1988 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Frances Libassi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
Client Group ◽  
Life Model ◽  
Practice Approach

A conceptual framework for social work practice with chronically mentally ill clients is presented. This framework utilizes the ecological perspective, life model, and competence-oriented perspective for comprehensive assessment of problem situations with this client group.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Framework for Information Technology in Social Work Practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Fitch
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Human Services Agencies ◽  
Systems Research

This article describes how information systems research in the human services can be facilitated with a conceptual framework that addresses the fundamental roles of data, information and knowledge in understanding organizational information systems. Using methodologies originating in information systems and organizational research, the resulting conceptual framework explains how we are to understand information technology from the perspectives of clinical social work, supervision, social work administration, policy, and community collaborations. It concludes by reminding us that to the extent we have done little to educate our students on the differences between data, information and knowledge, and to educate them based on research performed in our human services agencies, is the extent to which our professional practice relative to technology will not advance in the 21st century.

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