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A Personal practice model (PPM) is a social work tool for understanding and linking theories to each other and to the practical tasks of social work.. Mullen describes the PPM as “the art and science of social work”, or more prosaically, “an explicit conceptual scheme that expresses a worker's view of practice”.
Contemporary group work practice continues to be informed by the work of early pioneers and the vanguards of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to the Mutual Aid Model of social work with groups, the Cognitive-Behavioral Group Work Model is recognized as influential on contemporary group work practice (Rose, 2004).
Anti-oppressive practice is an approach that aims to end socioeconomic oppression and promote social justice. It involves critically examining power imbalances, diversity, and discrimination in social work and other fields.
Strength-based practice is a social work theory that emphasizes people's self-determination and strengths. It is applied to various contexts, such as education, business, and occupational therapy, and has positive outcomes for individuals and communities.
Critical social work is the application of critical theory to social work, addressing social injustices and oppression. It draws from various schools of thought, such as Marxism, feminism, anarchism, and postcolonialism, and has different sub-theories and practice models.
Group work is a form of cooperative learning that enhances the output of an activity than when done individually. It is also a method of social work that aims to develop persons and groups through group experiences and social goals. Learn about the four models of social group work and the related literature.
Practice theory explains society and culture as the result of structure and individual agency, emerging from the work of Bourdieu, Giddens, de Certeau and others. It involves concepts such as habitus, doxa, field, cultural capital and structuration.
Integrated social work refers to the use of a holistic approach in the practice of social work [1] It differs from Eclecticism in that whilst eclectic social work uses differ parts of a variety of social work theories and models, integrative social work seeks to blend different theories, models, and methods into a personalized and coherent approach that provides lasting solutions to the ...