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Saturday, October 17, 2009

THE STRUCTURAL MODEL

PURPOSE. To ensure that a social work intervention gives adequate and appropriate attention to the client’s social environment and to social change.

Application. This model is intended for use in all social work intervention involving direct practice with individuals, couples and families.

Description.

  • focus on the person in environment and the inherent difficulty of giving equal attention to both dimension, social worker have tended to choose either a clinical orientation or a social change orientation.
  • To consider, first changing the client environment
  • Other orientation to direct practice focus mostly on helping individuals adjust to their situations, the structural approach aims to modify the environment first so it better meets the needs of needs of the individuals.
  • This approach rests on the belief that most of the client situations encountered in social work practice are a manifestation of inadequate social arrangement s and insufficient resources, rather than individual pathologies or personal deficiencies.
  • The model identifies four social work roles (conferee, broker, mediator, and advocate)
  • Assume the worker will move from role to role, depending on the needs of the client. It is built on several fundamental principles ; be accountable and responsible to the client; take actions that identify and engage others who have concerns or problems similar to those of the client; maximize the support that exist in the client’s environment; proceed on the basis of “least contest” .
  • Teach and reinforce behavior and skills that will help the client take control of his or her life

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