Intro.

The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well being and help meet the basic human needs of all people with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable.

• *enhance human well being
• *basic human needs

Proffession of helping - help people function the best way they can

Value based - code of ethics

Compentence

Effects every level of social functioning

• 1. service - provide for people in need
• 2. social justice - challenge social injustice
• 3. dignity and worth of a person
• 4. importance of human relationships
• 5. inergrity
• 6. compentence

micro - one on one work. individuals and families

mezzo - middle level. between individual work and community work (neighborhood groups, support groups, students)

macro - community practice. change on large scale. policy and community change.

Conservatives - oppose change, pessismistic view of people, people need to take responsibility for themselves, government should have a minimal role

Liberal - like change, better way to do things, optimistic about human behavior, take action for social justice

• -framework for practice
• -dominate theory in social work
• -everything impacts everything else
• -person in enviroment - seeing people how they function in their enviroement. What is impacting that person's enviroment
• -interactionism-constant interaction between individual and enviroment

A system that you are trying to change (individual, family, policy)

A component of a larger system. Community > family (subsystem)

A large more encompassing system. (nation, cultural system)

A limit setter. Sets limits in place. i.e. laws

If a system stops functioning. A system has to have the ability to change in order to be healthy and function.

There are many different ways to achieve the same goal.

• - change affects the whole
• - have influence outside
• - must process outside influence
• - produce output, which is input for another system
• - feedback from the enviroment
• - self regulated

• - sustainability - make changes today that will last.
• - human rights
• - social, ecomomic justice
• - common issues around the world
• - may require different approaches to solutions
• - difference in social work

• -service should be responsive to needs
• -comprehensive health education should be provided to all adolecents (physical and emotional)
• -comprehensive heath services provided to those who become preganant

• -federal and state should abolish the death penalty
• -pending abolition a moratorium should be immediatly imposed
• -must be 18 to be sentenced to death
• -ensure that defendants represented by qualified attorneys

• -employers should consider alternatives to drug testing
• -include education and prevention
• -consistant and fair treatment of all employees

• -euthansia - doctor is physically apart of the process
• -physically assisted - doctor not present, patient is given the drugs needed

• -based on client (self determination)
• -social worker must be self aware of own biases

• -support self determination on all reproductive health services
• -health services must be voluntary and preserve rights
• -have the right to have access to abortion
• -legelation should facilitate a woman's right to contraceptive and emergency contraceptive products

• -health and mental healthcare for all citizens
• -support ongoing research on how to finance the healthcare systems