fundamental framework to understand case management
- Micro
- Mezzo
- Macro
* three walls of the three levels are permeable
theory
- confines of the social structure
- different levels of approaches because there are different cases
gender theory
- structural functionalism
- structure and function
- every structure has a function
- every function has an assoiciated structure
structure examples
- religion
- education
- politics
- culture
- family
function examples
- in part values
- educates
- provides framework / set up laws
- value set, morals
- values, raising youth, raising workforce
manifest / latent
- manifest: what structures are intended to do
- latent: what structures are not intended to do
conflict theory
- macro level
- Marx’s on working class
- conflict between those who work and those who own the work
classical psychodynamic theory
- neurosis
- interest of child development
- developed: id (impulsive), ego (understanding social parametres), superego (master between the id and ego)
- three masters: outside world, superego (values of the outside world) and the id
children development in psychodynamic theory
- two drives that govern child development:
1. pleasure seeking
2. death drive
stages of psychodynamic theory
- oral
- anal
- phallic
what are children doing when they mouth
- exploring the world
- coping
- sensory
- children with autism can taste and smell when they mouth things
psychoanalysis
- solving different conflicts or unresolved conflicts
- neurosis: sign of inner defence mechanism
- be the psychotherapist not the parent
- neurotic anxiety can happen anytime
psychodynamic
- evaluating the needs of the client
- understand client but do formal ways of assessing and measuring
agency
- is important and cannot be taken for granted as a case manager
psychodynamic theory
- micro level
- role of unconscious
- role of personality
- defense mechanisms
- negative emotions usually develop due to having unresolved conflict
value orientation model
- individual product of ego
- biology
- sociology
1970 - onward
- lost setting (psychodynamic)
- the upbringing of conflict theory
- conflict theory meant competition for jobs
- conflict theory meant individual problems are connected to larger social issues
conflict theory (larger social system)
- cultural values
- individualism
- technology
- nuclear families
- western values
- freindship
- money
- love
- status
- shelter, care
social constructions of realities
- change conditions for individuals
- conflict theory says we inforce social problems
interactional theory
- micro level
- acts to find meaning in their help
- interactionists would say that things are real for you and have real meaning and consequences
active listening
- body language
- be at the individuals level
- vocabuary level
- appropriate age language
- attentive
- eye contact
- posture
- paraphrasing
- taking note and keeping eye contact
interaction
- context and conduct in which were acting is important
- how will you react?
- understand as a case manager what is going on with an individual in their world
social work perspective
- preliminary phase
- inital phase
- middle/working
- closing phase
systems theory
- agency
- role of defining situations
- how individuals interact with others
