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    Macro social work involves planned interventions at the community, organization, and societal levels to enact social change. It includes roles like community organizers, managers, and policy analysts. Macro practice considers individuals in the context of their environment and social systems using theories like systems theory. The goals are to promote social justice, autonomy, and beneficence through collaborative work with communities and organizations.

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    Macro social work involves planned interventions at the community, organization, and societal levels to enact social change. It includes roles like community organizers, managers, and policy analysts. Macro practice considers individuals in the context of their environment and social systems using theories like systems theory. The goals are to promote social justice, autonomy, and beneficence through collaborative work with communities and organizations.

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    Macro social work involves planned interventions at the community, organization, and societal levels to enact social change. It includes roles like community organizers, managers, and policy analysts. Macro practice considers individuals in the context of their environment and social systems using theories like systems theory. The goals are to promote social justice, autonomy, and beneficence through collaborative work with communities and organizations.

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    Macro social work involves planned interventions at the community, organization, and societal levels to enact social change. It includes roles like community organizers, managers, and policy analysts. Macro practice considers individuals in the context of their environment and social systems using theories like systems theory. The goals are to promote social justice, autonomy, and beneficence through collaborative work with communities and organizations.

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    Macro social work

    Group members

    • Rahima Kiran
    • Sidra Tahir
    • Maira Chaudary
    • Rimsha Saneed
    • Kainat Shahzadi
    • Rafia Batool
    Macro practice define
    • Macro practice is professionally guided intervention designed to bring
    about planned change in organizations and communities
    Alternative definition
    • Macro social work is the practice of helping individuals and groups solve
    social problems and make social change at the community, organizational,
    societal, and global levels. Brueggemann, 2006
    Interventions
     Communities
     Organization
     Small groups
    Three areas of macro intervention
     Communities
     Organization
     Small groups
    Levels of involvement in social work practices

     Macro
    The most basic system, referring to an individual’s most immediate environment.
     Meezo
    A more generalized system referring to the interaction processes between multiple
    microsystem.
     Macro
     Settings on a more generalized level which affect indirectly, family interaction on
    the micro and meso level.
    Levels of intervention
    Micro
     Individuals
     Domestic unit
     Small group
    Macro
     Organizations
     Communities
     policy
    Some professional roles of macro social
    workers
     Planners
     Policy analyst
     Program coordinator
     Community organizer
     Manager
     administrator
    The interrelationship of micro and macro
    social work practice
    Find the
     Faith healer
     Social worker
     psychotherapist
    Unfaithful angles?
    Social work, having adopted values of individualism and having been
    socialized to organization norms, along with mainstream society has
    abandoned in large part its understanding of the social and communal.
    Saul alkinsky is quoted as saying about social
    worker
    • They come to the people of the slums not to help them rebel and fight
    their way out of the muck most social work does not even reach the
    submerged masses. Social work is largely a middle class activity and
    guided by a middle class psychology
    A systematic approach to macro social work
    practice
    What is theory? A way to connect observable
    events.
     Theories give us a LENS for a clearer way of seeing and understanding
     Helps organize our thinking.
     A theory is useful to the degree that it can
     Describe
     Explain
     Predict
     Must be abstract to be used
    System theory
    Importance of integration and functioning
    Boundaries
    Negotiate environment
    Resources for the system can be people, equitments, funding, knowledge,
    legitimacy or other forms.
    Community practice: based in social work’s
    purpose and mission
    Community practice: NASW
    A historic and defining feature of social work is the profession’s focus on
    individual well being in a social context and the well being of society.
    Fundamental to social work is attention to the environmental forces that
    creat, contribute to, and address problem in living.
    Three principle
     Autonomy
     Beneficence
     Social justice
    Social justice
    • Social justice is a dynamic goal or condition of democratic societies and
    includes equitable access to societal institutions, resources, opportunities,
    rights, goods, services, responsibilities for all groups and individuals
    without arbitrary limitations based on observed or interpretations of
    differences in age, color, culture, physical, mental disability, education,
    gender, religion or sexual orientation.
    Summary

     Macro social workers


     Use a informed systems approach to identify goals and outcomes
     Value consumer/collaborator participation
     Embrace professional social worker identify by thinking critically

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