Social work processes

Nota:

• Social work processes

1. Differences in types of users
   1. Individuals
      1. SAP

         Nota:

         • Single Assessment Process for older people
   2. Groups
   3. Families
      1. Assessment issues

         Nota:

         • Framework for assessment of children in need and families
         1. identification of troubled families

            Nota:

            • resources v stigma
         2. children at risk
         3. Framework for Assessment children in need

            Nota:

            • SWP 634 
            1. CAF
   4. Communities
      1. Key features of working with communities
      2. geographic
      3. ethnic
      4. relevant theories
         1. ecosystems
2. Key Processes
   1. Assessment
      1. Asessment tools
         1. Genogram
         2. Culturagram
         3. Ecomap
         4. Flow diagrams and life road maps
         5. CAF
         6. how are they similar to others? how are they diffeent?
         7. Saleeby's barriers and strengths

            Nota:

            • SWP 574
         8. Assessment triangle

            Nota:

            • DOH; SWP 673
         9. Common Assessment Framework
      2. Relevant theories
         1. Social
            1. anti-oppressive practice
            2. systems approach
         2. How learning happens

            Nota:

            • Milner and O'Byrne SWP 337: knowledge gained through interactions
         3. Approaches

            Nota:

            • problem-solving social interactions political/social Strengths-based approach:  Hepworth, Rooney and Larson: strengths-based (SWP 551) Joint construction of a narrative (Fook) (SWP 578) Anti-oppressive practice
      3. Assessment processes

         Nota:

         • M&O'B: 1. prepare; 2 collect data; 3 apply knowlede (practice wisdom + theory); 4 judgements; 5 recommendations HAND-OUT 1. preparation; 2 data collection; 3 weighing data; 4 analysing data; 5 utilising analysis
         1. different types

            Nota:

            • third party assessment; investigative; eligibility/needs; suitability; multidisciplinary
      4. Assessment types/purposes

         Nota:

         • HANDOUT: 1 enhance info; 2 empower user; 3 understand likely eligibility; 4 enable access to services; 5 offer support; 6 negotiate/advocate; 7 address change, care and social control; 8 
         1. may be legal or funding requirement
         2. Risk assessment
      5. challenges of assessment
         1. poorly understood theory
         2. Judgement errors

            Nota:

            • Paying attention selectively Stereotyping and labelling Collective assumptions/approaches held within a team
         3. Resources
            1. Need is relative
      6. Assessment levels

         Nota:

         • - broad-based, fluid and holistic? - focused on particular issue?
      7. Assessment skills

         Nota:

         • Communication Administrative Writing Listening Hearing Attitude: non-judgemental Straight-talking; trustworthy
      8. Approaches

         Nota:

         • Needs-based Resources-based
   2. Planning
      1. Resourcing
         1. Funding
            1. Funding panel
            2. Personalisation planning
      2. Inter-professional working
         1. Networking
         2. Working with other agencies
      3. Consultation

         Nota:

         • Parker and Bradley ch3
         1. Service user at the centre

            Nota:

            • ch3; also location 2158
            1. Empowerment
               1. Consulted to capacity
               2. Equal opps
         2. Point of view of the carer

            Nota:

            • location 2170
      4. Planning tools
         1. SMART goals
         2. HOSEC: honest, open, simple, explicit, clear

            Nota:

            • location 2341
      5. Care plans
         1. Children
            1. Ch in need
            2. Ch Protection
            3. Looked After Ch
            4. Ch with supervision/care order
            5. Pathway plan
         2. Intro: What is contained?

            Nota:

            • - objectives - services to be provided - timing/nature prof contact - purpose of specific services and contacts - commitments from family - commitments from profs - specify which parts are negotiable - what needs to change; how will we know? what goals need to be achieved? - sanctions to be used if child in danger - 
         3. Adults
            1. Grounded in reality

               Nota:

               • location 2053
            2. Resource constraints
               1. Balance between indiv choices and funding
                  1. care plan to inc expected service user contribution to costs
            3. Older people
               1. SAP framework

                  Nota:

                  • 2125
               2. Risk assessment
               3. Elder abuse
               4. Mental capacity Act 2005

                  Nota:

                  • location 2193
      6. Evaluation of Planning
         1. Positive: adds rigour, consistency, reduces risk
         2. Negatives: incr bureaucratic
      7. Planning in care management
         1. User empowerment, equal opps
         2. Grounded in reality
         3. Resource constraints
            1. User contributions
         4. Risk assessment
            1. elder abuse
   3. Intervention
      1. Ending intervention (week 11 notes)
         1. Obstacles to ending
         2. Why end
      2. Tips (Thompson, Thompson p60)
         1. Keep focused
         2. Know limitations
         3. Don't be precious
         4. Yourself as a resource
      3. Working in partnership
      4. Models for intervention
         1. Systems approach
            1. Family
         2. Core helping skills

            Nota:

            • location 2527 empathy; warmth; genuineness; (Rogers 1961); + concreteness; immediacy; confrontation (Carkhuff 1987)
         3. Task-centred practice

            Nota:

            • Reis and Shye (1969) loc 2621; Marsh and Doel (2005) loc 2640
            1. step by step to achieve goals
            2. associated with problem-solving, behavioural approaches
         4. Cognitive-behavioural approaches

            Nota:

            • location 2791
         5. Crisis theory and crisis intervention
         6. Psychodynamic
         7. Strength-based models
         8. Skills
            1. Networking
            2. Advocacy
   4. Review and evaluation
      1. Review
         1. A continuing process of sense-checking, esp when
            1. Changes; stat requirements; stuck; transfer
         2. Questions

            Nota:

            • see also location 3537 P&B
            1. Aim?
            2. How willyou achieve aim?
            3. How will you know you've achieved it?
            4. Were original aims appropriate?
            5. Obstacles in way?
            6. Have circumstances changed?
            7. Is plan appropriate?
         3. Tools eg graphic display
      2. Evaluation
         1. Effectiveness: aims met
         2. Effiiency: use of resources
         3. Lessons learned
3. Introduction
   1. Linked together: plans based on assessment and look forward to interventions; and should be reviewed
   2. Theories and approaches
      1. formal/high level
      2. middle: practice theories
         1. 3-stage theory framework

            Nota:

            • a tool for helping employ theory
      3. informal
   3. ASPIRE model

      Nota:

      • ASsessment Planning Intervention Review and Evaluation
   4. Knowledge: theoretical; facts; practice