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Essay / Social Work Cycle Essay - 1182
Freya Cristea, Concept Map Assessment Report 2The idea behind the concept map was to illustrate that all areas of social work are interdependent on each other, through this; we have tried to demonstrate that values are anchored in these areas. We developed the idea of the "social work cycle", using the concept of precipitation, condensation and evaporation of rainwater to demonstrate the relationship and eternal cycle of what social workers do, denoting that as social workers we have a wealth of values that must constantly “recycle” and that each area can come from the same “sea” of work. Our map included the following areas and references:• Education and training (Copper & Briggs 2000)• Social policy practice (Chenoweth & McAuliffe 2008)• Research (Cotter, Martical, Smokowski & Robertson 2013)• Self-regulation• Community development (Hall 2014 ) (Estes 1998)• Working with families and partnerships (Chenoweth and McAuliffe 2008)• Management and leadership (Scottish Executive 2004)• Organizational practice (Chenoweth and McAuliffe 2008)• Health sector (Cleak and Turczynski 2014) (Wong , Ki, Maharaj, Brown, Davis, and Apolinsky 2014)• Working with individuals and groups• Collaborations with other disciplines (Chenoweth and McAuliffe 2008)These areas, taken from The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice (Chenoweth and McAuliffe 2008), were considered the most important; each member was assigned two areas, specifying the practices. We found that each area was related to each other, giving us the ability to tie them all together and validate the cycle. The two assigned areas I studied were community development and collaboration with other disciplines as well as research...... from article ......com/content/23/6/639 .full.pdf+html>Hall, C 2014/04/04, Social Work Practice in Community Development, Canadian Association of Social Work, accessed 18/3/14Estes, R 1998 “Developmental Social Work”, A New Paradigm Shift for a new Century, University of Pennsylvania, vol 1, pp. 5-6Scottish Executive 2004, Working and learning together to build stronger communities: Scottish Leaders' Advice for Community Learning and Development, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh Wong, AG, Ki, P, Maharaj, A, Brown, E, Davis, C & Apolinsky, F 2014, 'Sources, types and generativity of social support: a focus group study of cancer survivors and their Caregivers', Taylor & Francis Online, vol. 53, no. 3, accessed March 13 2014,