LibGuides: SWR-365: Week 3 Resources

Week 3 Required Resources

Textbook

Your course textbook, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, can be accessed via the Getting Started module in your course.

Schriver, J. M. (2020). Human behavior and the social environment: Shifting paradigms in essential knowledge for social work practice (7th ed.). Allyn & Bacon.

Read Chapter 3: Enduring Theories, Perspectives and Practice Models Influencing Social Work.
This chapter covers the enduring ways of understanding human behavior and the social environment.

Articles

A Paradigm Framework for Social Work Theory for Early 21st Century Practice
McGregor, C. (2019). A paradigm framework for social work theory for early 21st century practice. British Journal of Social Work, 49(8), 2112–2129. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz006
This article explores whether paradigms for social work that helped structure and focus social work theory in the late 20th century can continue to inform social work theorizing in the present day.
“Why Wasn’t I Doing this Before?”: Changed School Social Work Practice in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phillippo, K., Lucio, R., Shayman, E., & Kelly, M. (2023). “Why wasn’t I doing this before?”: Changed school social work practice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative Social Work, 22(3), 431–447. https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250221076061
This article explores the pandemic's impact on School Social Work’s (SSWs’) practice, and how SSWs responded in turn as they quickly adapted their practice during this widespread, ongoing crisis.
Promoting Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice
Mersky, J. P., Topitzes, J., & Britz, L. (2019). Promoting evidence-based, trauma-informed social work practice. Journal of Social Work Education, 55(4), 645–657. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2019.1627261
This article makes the case that theoretically and empirically grounded content on trauma should be foundational to social work education.

Week 3 Assignment Resources

NASW Code of Ethics
NASW Code of Ethics (https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English)