Mezzo and Macro Practice Settings
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GENERALISTPRACTICEPPWEEK1ASSIGNMENT.pptxGENERALIST PRACTICE IN SOCIAL WORK
Name: Gabrielle Lewis
Generalist practice in social work focuses on the interaction of individuals and their environment. This approach requires that social workers recognize the variety of systems that interact with the individual and that interact with one another (Miller, Tice, & Harnek Hall, 2008)
Introduction
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Individuals in a society interact with each other for several reasons. The role of generalists in social work is to track those interactions and recognize the reason behind interaction and how they proceed. Generalist practices in social work are grounded on the values, knowledge, and skills associated with one’s beliefs and the reason for interaction.
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Social Work Problem
* According to a Survey
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Social work problem that I have identified in last weeks was the impact of COVID-19 crisis on mental health and the role of social workers in helping people through telehealth.
The use of telehealth system helped social workers to access needs of patients and provide them counselling for the trauma from which they are suffering.
During the COVID-19 crisis, it was difficult for social workers to provide physically interactive counseling; thus, through the telehealth system, they adjusted their hours(Mi Jin Choi, 2015).
That social problem has been selected for the sake of enhancing the knowledge of audience regarding an important issue and help them to understand the role of social workers. Social workers played a crucial role in managing situations and helps people suffering in mental health traumas during COVID-19. By helping children and parents, Social workers ensured that everyone is safe and doing well at their ends.
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Intervention of Generalists at MULTIPLE LEVELS
The image is illustrating the four levels of intervention of generalists and also showing where they are involved. In further details I will explain how generalists are involved at different levels and plays crucial role in studying human interaction, causes and effects. At every level illustrated above the role of generalists and social workers differs.
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MACRO SYSTEM
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The role of generalists at macro level is to deals with community and state level problems.
The responsibility of generalists is at the macro level is to find the root cause of national problems and then extract the solution from the problem.
Generalists are responsible for the creation of programs that addresses real-life problems and focus on large social problems.
For example, commentaries on corruption, rape, racial discrimination, adultery and numerous other social problems that needs voice(Fricke, 2017).
At macro level, The role of generalists is to talk about social problems that are affecting the nation as a whole. generalists at macro-level think about problems at state level and then filter solutions for these problems. COVID-19 was a state level problem and social workers played a crucial role in addressing the problem and to bring solution for people. in order to address that problem generalists as social workers. Generalists from all fields played a crucial role in helping people during COVID-19 and motivate them to stay active and encouraged all the time.
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Social Workers who worked at macro-level are often work through non-profit organizations and followed by legal authorities, government department or funds and motivated by human right organizations.
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At Macro-level the role of generalists social workers is designed by the state actors. Based on their roles they followed laws and government orders to accomplish some tasks. Such as generalists working on some highlighted issues by the use of sensitive information let say the mental health conditions of people during COVID and how the government deals with this situation is favored from the upper level.
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The growth of social work industry
The division below is showing the role of social work at each level.
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The image above is showing the division of all the dimensions of generalists role in social work. Generalists at state level are evolved at much extent but ranked as the second most used social work practice. At this level workers are getting instructions from state government and bring results that meets with the expectations of the government.
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EXO System
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The exo-system is an important system in which generalist social workers looks and analyze the interactions of one group with the other group.
The exo-system analyzes internal structures of an organization and reviews the strength of its overall role in managing the workplace operations. For example, during COVID-19 crises the role of generalists social workers in exo-system by analyzing how individuals interact and these interactions affects their mental health(Fricke, 2017).
Exo-system is when the interaction between two persons affect the well-being of the third person. In the social problem to which I am dealing, that third person are families of people who are being impacted by the distorted healthcare of customers. Social work generalists are publishing highly encouraging statements for workers and organizations that will motivate them to achieve more.
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Exo-system is related to the individual’s work station and the role of generalists social workers in motivating workers to achieve higher at work is the highlighted one.
Mental health problems because of physical and emotional trauma during COVID-19 provides a chance for social workers to use their skills to help patients and motivate them to get out of the problem.
At the exo-system level social workers will determine how organizations and work contribute in mental health problems. there were millions of people who lost their jobs during COVID-19 that out them into depression and stress. In order to deal with this stress and sufferings social workers provide assistance to people. At this level the analysis of organization where the individual interacts with other people is conducted and then treatment will be planned and discussed by generalist.
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Mezzo SYSTEM
At this level or in this system the individual's primary belongings will be analyzed by generalist social workers to understand the reason behind the mental health problems during COVID-19(Fricke, 2017).
For example, if an individual have lost his/her loved one due to COVID-19, this can affect their mental health and leave them in fear and mistrust. At this level the role of generalists skimmed and they focus on family and peer interaction of the individual and make assumptions whether the cause is their mental health or not.
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DIMENSIONS
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The above illustration states three dimensions of generalists' social work and the purpose and role of generalists in each dimension. Although the explanation of each dimension is provided, the keyword illustration is presented to make the role of generalists apparent. Whether as generalists or any other position, the role of social workers in crisis is not ordinary because they offer immediate non-profit help to people.
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MICRO SYSTEM
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Micro-system is one of the simplest stage of social workers in which they participate with the individual and his/her direct interaction with the environment.
At this level generalists will analyze how at the individual level mental health problem affects during COVID and what are the factors that contribute in it.
Here generalists should have micro-skills to intervene with individuals and understand the cause of mental health problem.
During COVID-19 numerous people suffered with mental health problems. If the problem will be studied by social workers they will focus on all the four dimensions and come up with the desired solution, root causes and effects of the problem. Mental health problem is associated with COVID-19 and the correlation should be understood by establishing understanding their interaction at state, local, organizational and individual levels. (Thomas, 2019).
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All the dimensions of social work practice helps to explore the issue by analyzing the reason behind the problem and the way individuals interact with each other.
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Cont..
All the dimensions of social work step- by-step analyzes the performance of individuals and explores how the problem exists and how it impacts the well-being of individuals. During COVID-19 there is a huge increase in mental health problems that raises because of serious outcomes of the disease. Four dimensions of the social work used by generalists will analyze individual interaction, at all the levels from state, local, organizational and individual and implement knowledge on how the problem could effect.
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REFERENCES
Fricke, A. (2017). CHAPTER 4: GENERALIST PRACTICE. https://ferrisintroductiontosocialwork.pressbooks.com/chapter/chapter-4-generalist-practice/#:~:text=The%20focus%20of%20macro%20level,and%2For%20national%20social%20problems.
Mi Jin Choi, P. U. (2015). Early Career Patterns for Social Work Graduates. Journal of Social Work Education, 51, 475-493.
Miller, S., Tice, C, & Harnek Hall, D. (2008). The generalist model: Where do the micro and macro converge? Advances in Social Work, 9(2), 79-90.
Thomas, S. (2019). Generalist Social Work Practice. https://www.stthomas.edu/socialwork/undergraduate/about/practice/.
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