Social Work Ethics and Values in Group Dynamics
Ethics and Values of Social Work with Groups
1. Introduction
We have been able to survive thanks to our social nature. The ability of social interaction plays a key role in the development of our personality and the dynamics of the society in which we are immersed. Any consideration of the ethics of social work with groups should start from that fact, establishing our social status and the requirements that are necessary for human sociability to function as such and allow our survival. Therefore,
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For example, is it wrong to lie because it betrays the trust of a friend, or is it preferable to suffer a punishment rather than rat out a teammate?
Cognitive
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Personality: An Overview
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Psychodynamic Theory
Psychodynamic theory posits that behavior is motivated by inner, unconscious forces over which a person has little control. All psychological events have a cause; we are at the mercy of forces outside our awareness. No action is meaningless. The unconscious is considered more important than the conscious.
Sigmund Freud developed
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Assessment of Cognitive Functions
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Cognitive Functions
Elderly
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Qualitative Information Gathering
The main tools for qualitative data collection in research are observation and focus group interviews. These methods delve into social situations while maintaining an active role and permanent reflection.
Mertens’ Three Approaches to Qualitative Research
According to Mertens, there are three ways in which a qualitative researcher can approach an environment:
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Educational Psychology: Learning Strategies and Cognitive Development
Features and Functions of Learning Strategies
Strategies are procedures aimed, in part, at trainable skills. They are a set of operations and procedures that the student can use to acquire, retain, and evoke different kinds of knowledge.
The Functions:
- Condition the individual, improving their performance.
- Promote the development of autonomous learning by providing students with a fundamental role in the statement.
- Improve students’ ability to learn how to learn.
- Enable easier, faster, and better quality