Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Amber Spencer
December 3, 2008

sw241 questions

Chapter 7&12

What are the clusters of a persons social network that a social worker should look at when they look to see the relationships that the client has?
the clusters are, first the origin of the family, the extended family that the person has, the identified friends. they sould also look at the work collagues, also the neighbors. any of the informal  reations that they might have. if they are afflalited with any religious groups , members of any associations, or recreational partners.

Chapter 11

what are the three agency-level interventions and explain each of them?
the first is the people-foucsed intrevention which is an intervention in which the knowledge values, and the skills of the staff agency changes. another is the technological change in which the agency changes the way a material item is done, like having a checklist on the computer instead of having it done on paper.  the last is the structual change in which the agency becomes more of a unit in how they interact.