Module 2= 500 words

It is a case study and has to be done by a book.book name=  Payne, M. (2014). Modern social work theory (Fourth ed.). 

I have also attached a sample file in case if you don’t have the book. Most importantly references should be peer-reviewed and APA 6th edition. minimum of 3 references with plagiarism free work.

Introductionto Case Study

Erica (age 30 years) has contacted a local community centre. Erica says she lives with her partner James (Jim) and two children Jemima (13) and Isaac (4). Jim works full time in the building industry and the family relocated from interstate 8 months ago so he could take up a better paid job on the recommendation of a friend who was already living here. All of their extended family are back in their home town.

A couple of months ago, Jim was charged by the police for driving under the influence of alcohol and now his driver’s licence has been suspended for 12 months following a court appearance. Erica said she has found out Jim has been having problems at work. They can’t afford for him to lose his job and he has been spending a lot of the family budget going out and drinking with friends on the weekends. Erica has a background working in retail and administration but hasn’t been working for some time as she wanted to settle the kids in after the move and now Jemima has just changed schools again and Isaac has started pre-school.

She has noticed Jim is often frustrated with the kids and things are tense at home. Erica said she didn’t really want to tell anyone about their problems, but she spoke to her neighbour about what has been happening when they noticed she looked down and said they had heard her arguing again with Jim last night. They gave her the name of the Centre and said they had used this service when they needed help and found it useful.

Module 2 (500 words) DUE: Sunday 29th March 2020
Review the Cognitive Behavioural Practice explored in Module 2, from Payne’s Book (Book name= Payne, M. (2014). Modern social work theory (Fourth ed.). ) reflecting on the factors that have shaped your choice and including a critical analysis of the theory.

In social work point of view, theory-practice is an ability which let you to draw or gives a framework of the circumstance at work spot. As indicated by Payne, “Theory and practice resemble a bond which builds information and can be advanced when it’s expected to impact one another” (2014, p.3). Theories and professional practice are not different from each other and moreover, they are known as social work practice even recommended by other theorists (Healy,2014, p.111). My discussion will focus on how theory-practice is helping any social worker to understand any situation from social work perspective, and I will also have my words on one of the theory-practices which is Cognitive Behavioural Practice that appeals to me.

In this Cognitive Behavioural Practice, the social workers aim at teaching people how to perceive conditions of which based on their behaviour may elicit unwanted reactions towards the situations. We find that sometimes when somebody is suffering, he or she may perceive situations differently and in a bad way. This usually makes them react inappropriately towards the situation which even may worsen the condition. It, therefore, becomes very difficult for them to understand the sources of their problems.

According to Payne (2014), this practice aims at helping people address problems that face them, for example, social phobia, depression, as well as anxiety. It is attributed to the behavioural part. On the other hand, this practice also helps in addressing such problems that are as a result of people think which affects their behaviours.

With this, I find that this practice is so far the best as it plays a vital role in the social work perspective. It happens that many people do not live good lives as a result of the environment that they live in. This has even resulted in much larger complications in that they do not look for better solutions but rather make it very difficult to handle their situations. With the practices that have been outlined here, I find that these are the best practices since they bring a ray of hope to restoring an individual’s way of reasoning, the way of learning as well as the way of conceiving the environment.

Looking at its applicability is equally wide, looking at it is very important to restructure cognitively the beliefs of people. Where people are not able to interact well with others, through well planned social learning mechanisms, such people are able to recognize the importance of being around other people. This is even applicable in clinical settings. There are specific ways the supervision, as well as the training, are done in clinical settings and thus adding more weight to the importance this cognitive behaviours practice has.

Hence looking at all the above-stated reasons, this practice is the most appealing to me, it gives a second chance to the lives of other people to have a different and positive view of situations that are surrounding them and make them think on a positive path rather than adding difficulty to an already difficult situation.

References

Lacey, H., & Rachlin, H. (1978). Behavior, Cognition and Theories of Choice. Behaviorism, 6(2), 177-202. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/27758914

Payne, M. (2014). Modern social work theory (Fourth ed.).

Healy, K., & EBook Library. (2014). Social work theories in context: Creating frameworks for practice (2nd ed.).