scholarly journals Social Work and Family Therapy: Interdisciplinary Roots of Family Intervention

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Constable
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Family Interaction ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Relational Structures

Social work practice takes place between persons in families and other social institutions, such as schools, health systems, welfare systems or courts. Drawing from multi-disciplinary theoretical sources, the article brings together social work and family therapy to develop a contemporary model of social work practice with families. There are five generic principles of family systemic practice: 1) persons are inherently relational; 2) families have resilient strengths; 3) family life cycles proceed systemically generating relational tasks for family members; 4) repetitive family interaction generates relational structures; 5) cultures, as perceived by family members, are themselves in dynamic motion, necessitating a transcultural understanding of family interaction.

scholarly journals Scope of Social Work Practice for Families of Children with Down Syndrome

2020 ◽  
pp. 751-759
Author(s):  
Bilal Ahmad Khan ◽  
Wakar Amin Zarga ◽  
Shabir Ahmad Najar
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Children With Down Syndrome

Social work practice takes place at micro, mezzo, and macro levels between persons with disabilities in families and other social institutions, such as schools, health systems, and welfare systems. Drawing from multidisciplinary theoretical sources, the article brings together social work and family therapy to develop a possible social work intervention for families of children with Down syndrome. The primary purpose of these interventions is to aid clients in alleviating problems and improving their well being. Social workers must think creatively about interventions that may help the individuals, couples, families, and groups or communities they serve. This research is using the literature study method. The results confirm that numerous concerns have to be addressed faced by children with Down syndrome. Toward various issues and challenges faced by people with Down syndrome and their families, social workers have the professional responsibility to provide services and intervention to increase the children with Down syndrome's social functioning and overall well-being of parents.

The Family Relationships of Older Australians at Risk of Homelessness

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1440-1456
Author(s):  
Maree Petersen ◽  
Cameron Parsell
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
The Family

Abstract This article explores the links between older people’s homelessness and family relationships and aims to inform social work practice frameworks. Whilst breakdown in family relationships is widely recognised as linked to being at risk of homelessness, there is less understanding of the interplay of family, both positive and negative, with older people’s homelessness. Drawing on a study incorporating data mining of service records, this article aims to provide clarity on supportive and troubled family relationships and their links to housing crises as experienced by older Australians. The findings highlight a number of domains for social work practice including undertaking skilled assessments to understand the strengths and constraints experienced by families. Assessments will then inform intervention to support and provide resources to some families to prevent their older family members’ homelessness and to intervene in both a preventative and empowering way to address elder abuse. The implications for policy, in particular, the need for sectors of housing, aged care and health to intersect, are discussed.

Family: Practice Interventions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikal N. Rasheed ◽  
Janice Matthews Rasheed
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Family ◽  
Charity Organization ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Family Centered

This entry traces the historical, conceptual, and theoretical development of social work practice with families, beginning with the Charity Organization Society and the Settlement House movement. From the 1920s through the 1950s, social work practice was heavily influenced by psychoanalytic theory. However, emerging theoretical frameworks, including systems and ecological theory from the 1960s and the 1970s, shifted the focus of intervention back to the family. The 1970s saw the development of a proliferation of models for family therapy. The emergence of postmodern, constructivist, narrative and feminist thought has had a more recent influence on social work practice with families. Although these theories and models of family therapy have profoundly influenced direct practice with families, there is a renewed interest in what is described as family-centered social work practice. The theoretical foundation of family-centered practice emphasizes a strengths perspective and an empowerment model of social work practice. This approach represents a broad range of interventions that build linkages between the family and key environmental support systems of diverse, multi-stressed, and at-risk families. During the 2000s, attention has shifted to evidence-based practice (EBP). The focus on EBP has been to provide a source of information for clinicians and families to consider when selecting an appropriate intervention for the presenting problem.

Family-Centered Practice in the Postmodern Era

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Laird
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
The Family ◽  
Therapy Field ◽  
Family Centered

The postmodern movement has had a dramatic influence on the family therapy field and on social work, forcing a reexamination of long-held assumptions about assessment and intervention. The author explores how these ideas are being applied in the field of family therapy and the implications of this body of thought for social work practice.

scholarly journals ‘Everyday Bordering’ in England, Sweden and Bulgaria: Social Work Decision-Making Processes When Working with Migrant Family Members

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Walsh ◽  
Evelyn Khoo ◽  
Karina Nygren
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Migrant Family

AbstractThe global movement of people is a growing feature of contemporary life, and it is essential that professionals providing support services know how to best engage with migrant families. However, despite globalisation and the related processes of de-bordering, borders continue to remain significant and, in contemporary life, the ways in which immigration is controlled and surveilled—bureaucratically and symbolically—are multiple. The paper draws on data gathered in the immediate period following the so called 2015 European ‘migration crisis’ and examines whether and in what ways social workers in three European countries—Bulgaria, Sweden and England—enact bordering in their work with migrant family members. We apply the concept of ‘everyday bordering’ to the data set: whilst borders are traditionally physical and at the boundary between nation states, bordering practices increasingly permeate everyday life in bureaucratic and symbolic forms. Overall, the data show that everyday bordering affects social work practice in three ways: by social workers being required to engage in bordering as an everyday practice; by producing conditions that require social workers to negotiate borders; and in revealing aspects of symbolic everyday bordering. Our analyses shows that ‘everyday bordering’ practices are present in social work decision-making processes in each country, but the forms they take vary across contexts. Analysis also indicates that, in each country, social workers recognise the ways in which immigration control can impact on the families with whom they work but that they can also inadvertently contribute to the ‘othering’ of migrant populations.

A Survey of Family Therapy Practitioners

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Green ◽  
Michael S. Kolevzon
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Family Therapy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Theoretical Orientations ◽  
Social Work Practitioners

The growth of family therapy in social work practice is profiled through an examination of characteristic beliefs or assumptions, in-session therapeutic styles, and theoretical orientations of social work practitioners. The relationships among these three helping attributes are analyzed and conclusions are presented.

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