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● CH. II ● HUMAN SYSTEM PERSPECTIVES

● Ecosystems Perspective ○ Offers adaptable framework for integrating other useful views of human functioning ● Key perspectives ■ Theories about human system provide a cogent understanding of how biological, environmental, psychological, social , cultural, economic, political systems affect/are affected by human behavior/social structures ○ Empowerment perspectives ■ Social constructionism ■ Feminsit perspective ■ Life course theory ■ critical/race theory ■ Biology behavior ■ Trauma - informed ● Ecosystems Theory ○ Centers on exchange between people and their physical/social environments by combining key concepts from ecology and general systems theory ○ Stresses simultaneous nature of interaction between people and their environments ○ General system theory ■ Offers principles about how human systems operate/interact with each other ■ Describes ways that environment affect people and the ways

people affect their environment ■ Focuses on how people and their environments fit ● Ecosystem Research support ○ Integrative nature helps draw strengths of many helpful theories to describe human behavior in all its complexity ○ Describes interconnectedness and functionings of families, individual, and groups ● Therapeutic Alliance ○ Healthy relating ○ Authentic relationships ○ Very effective w/ dissociative disorders ○ Elements - Rogers ■ Empathy ■ Congruence - is SOW genuine ■ Unconditional positive regard ● Does SOW value clients as person ○ Elements - Bordin ■ Emotional bond between client and therapist ■ Agreement between two partied on therapy tasks ■ Good collaboration ○ “We language” ■ Emphasizes therapeutic alliance in the way we speak ■ “As WE work together” ○ Therapy is learning situation ■ Ask questions about client ■ Convey confidence ■ Genuinely want to learn from your client, THEY ARE EXPERT ■ Heighten expectation thru confidence

● Motivation is key to change ●

Social Constructionism ○ Focuses on how people understand themselves ○ Interpret what is happening in their life ○ Centers on how people construct meaning about themselves and others, emphasizes social meaning thru generated language/cultural beliefs ○ People understand events only as they’re filtered thru the ecosystemic layers of the social /cultural environment ○ People expand their perspectives as they willingly incorporate divergent POV’s/new ideas that validate their behaviors ○ People also yield to pressure from others to adopt alternative interpretations ○ Cultural identity/social position/memberships in groups offer places in the world ○ Discourse becomes the means by which dominant groups promote self-serving ideologies and limit social participation ○ Imposes meaning and construct realities for less powerful others ○ Hegemony ■ Control over norms held by the majority group ■ Invisible force that offers a privilege to dominant groups ■ Maintains oppressive beliefs about non-dominant groups ○ SOW see 2 distinct intervention points in lives of those who are oppressed ■ Workers can interfere with the internalization disempowering beliefs by collaborating w/ clients to question sociallygenerated truths ■ Workers can advocate for social/political changes to liberate

disadvantaged groups from the kind of oppressive belief systems and discriminatory laws that undermine this clients happiness ○ Interventions at both individual/societal levels apply social constructionist thinking to overturn the hegemony that distorts the clients emotional reality and inhibits her free choice ● Constructivism ○ Holds that 2 people can interpret the same event very differently because each experiences a personalized view of what happened ○ Unique perspectives are rooted in individual history current expectations and sense of self ○ Favors idea of each individuals creation of a unique reality ● Both social constructionism and constructivism view reality as maintained thru language ● Feminist perspective ○ Concretely links individual experiences with social forces ○ Belief that social forces perpetuate the subjugation of women in our society ○ This oppression plays out in interpersonal relationships and interactions ○ Results from patriarchal construction of reality ○ Forces SOW’s to turn from a neutral stance position to advocate for gender equality ○ 5 MAJOR THEMES ■ Efforts to include women in all aspects of society ■ Goal of solidarity among women ■ Elevation of woman's perspective and experiences in shaping a just society ■ Emphasis on intertwines nature of personal/political

experience ■ Focus on praxis; process to which people take action , critically reflect on their experiences and determine new strategies to advance personal and political goals ○ Hyde ■ States tenants should include ● Incorporating democratized processes and structures that promote collaboration, networking, and relationship building ● Extending the focus beyond gender and white middleclass perspectives to eliminate all forms of oppression ● Understand transformational nature of change in societal, economic, and political structures inherent pursuing justice for all those who experience oppression and discrimination ■ Disempowering views of women are rooted in formation of dominant groups who ignore their POV ○ SOWS must reconstruct new reality that is sensitive to diversity and unique experiences ● Life Course Theory ○ Emphasizes the effect of sociocultural-historical contexts on human development ○ Traces sociological influences on human development across the lifespan ○ These all ultimately shape life choices, social relationships, and resilience. ○ 4 MAIN THEMES ■ Historical influence on life course

● Context provides opportunities and restraints that expand/limit life choices ● Cohort groups [those born around the same time] experience similar life events throughout their lives ■ Timing of life events ● Individual life trajectories dependent on TIMING OF THEIR LIFE EVENTS ● Types of life events ○ Marriage ○ Death ○ Birth ○ Education ○ Retirement ■ Linked lives ● Focus on how networks of social and and intergenerational relationships influence human development ● EX: effects of family caregiving responsibilities for an aging parent reverberate through-out the family system ■ Human agency ● Highlights the power of personal decision making that gives direction to lives within the boundaries set by contextual opportunities and constraints ● Critical Theory ○ Directs practitioners to examine power significance differentials for clients in their lives and in their relationships with social workers ○ Examines the interconnections between people and their environments

○ Highlights how everyday mundane practices operate in many locations ○ They enact relations of culture, power, identity and social structure ○ Some of these elements are resources while others promote privilege and sustain oppression ○ Recognize that relationships between human actions and social structures is recursive process where each produces the other ○ Recognize that repetitive actions can lead to stable social structural arrangements ○ Intercultural power relationships arise as products of many interactions ○ Offers perspective for looking at institutional and social practices with a view to resisting the imposition...