Human Behavior and the Social Environment: A Social Systems ModelAllyn and Bacon, 1991 - 447 pages Introductory thesis on the premise that social work is a social profession, and that it is the use of the social relationship as the medium for helping that distinguishes social work from other professions. This social relationship is then modelled as a social system. |
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What Do Social Workers Do? | 7 |
What Is the Social Systems Model? | 16 |
Can the Individual Be Modeled as a Social System? | 26 |
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achieve activities agency application approach associated assumption B.F. Skinner Barbara basic become boundary chapter Charles Horton Cooley clients cognitive development comprising concept conversion operations dealing effects Erikson example exchange existence external feedback Ferdinand Tönnies formal organization forms of social function Gemeinschaft Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft given goal attainment helpful hierarchy hospital human behavior identified important individual interactions interdependence interface Lawrence Kohlberg line of theory maintenance inputs maintenance outputs Maslow means ment mental health center Midtown mutual needs notion organizational outcome parents Pat Gray pattern maintenance person pertain Piaget position practice problem professional proposed output psychoanalytic theory psychosexual stages psychosocial crisis psychosocial theory relationships represents role selfhood sense social environment social group social organization social systems model social systems perspective social workers society specific staff stage steady subsystem superego suprasystem systems theory task outputs theory development thinking tion viewed