Constructing Social Work Practice: A Dynamic Model

    Based on Healy Figure 2.1 (p.16), discuss how your practice purpose is influenced by the various social, environmental, and professional contexts shown. Identify your practice setting (agency, locale, state) and describe in sufficient detail that your fellow learners can identify with it. Next describe your practice purpose and use the social, environmental, and professional influences on that purpose. For example, providing infant mental health services in a small, not-for-profit, rural agency will differ from infant mental health services in a large, public, urban agency. The purpose of this service will also differ. Support your ideas with properly cited references from scholarly resources, which may include your text. Describe how theory connects to practice in actual SW settings. Identify two separate theoretical perspectives.