Introduction

From Hbse I

Lesson learning objectives

• Articulate the relationship between social work approaches, frameworks, theories and knowledge and values and ethics, and their importance in assessing clients and communicating about clients with other professionals.
• Discuss the importance of, and difficulty in, adopting new schema of clients, our selves, and society and others – if we are to become effective social workers who can really make a difference in our client’s lives.
• Explain where HBSE fits in terms of the PIP (as if telling your mother – assuming she is not a social worker.)
• Perform rudimentary assessment of a client using a case study.
• Identify, differentiate and discuss in general terms the ecosystems, strength-based and social constructionist approaches to clients.
• Differentiate the frameworks from personal opinion, common knowledge, bias.

• Discuss the courses’ learning objectives, assignments, and evaluations, and the relationship between those three.
  • Discuss the centrality of values and ethics to all social work activities, including the acquisition and application of social work knowledge (fit with number 6)

Schemas – life long learning, changing all the time