Question 1

What are 3 benefits to clients of the strengths perspective?

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Question 2

Describe the strengths perspective. Include the challenges a social worker might encounter in implementing the strengths perspective, and suggest ways in which they might work through those challenges.

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Question 3

Read the Chetkow-Yanoov article "Social Systems and Their Environments". Locate a news article about a violent event that has taken place recently (example: The Newtown, CT school shooting or the shooting at a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado) and use the multi-environmental model explained in Exercise 1 to conduct an analysis of the person/situation from your news article.

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Question 4

Explain, in Systems terms, what Von Bertalanffy means at the end of the readings when he says an "…organization must not swallow the individual without sealing its own inevitable doom."

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Question 5

Briefly describe the difference between an ecomap and a genogram. Describe 2 situations where each might be useful to a social worker.

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Quiz 2: Lenses for Conceptualizing Problems and Interventions: the Person in the Environment

What are 3 benefits to clients of the strengths perspective?

Describe the strengths perspective. Include the challenges a social worker might encounter in implementing the strengths perspective, and suggest ways in which they might work through those challenges.

Explain, in Systems terms, what Von Bertalanffy means at the end of the readings when he says an "…organization must not swallow the individual without sealing its own inevitable doom."

Briefly describe the difference between an ecomap and a genogram. Describe 2 situations where each might be useful to a social worker.