This presentation prepared by the students of MSW. 1st semester..December 2022.

1. ROCKY Prof. RANVIR SINGH
MSW(1st semester) Head of Department
ROLL NO. 45 (HOD)

3. Integrative social work draws from the
concept of holistic social work to create a
model rooted in systemic support for an
individual. This social work practice model
is often described as “person-centered,”
meaning it takes into account the physical,
emotional, community, and spiritual well-
being of a client

4. PRESENTING
PROBLEM
CLIENT
SYSTEM
CHANGE
AGENT
SYSTEM
DETERMINATION OF
OUTCOME GOALS
DETERMINATION OF
TARGETS
ASSESSMENT
OF
DATA

5. PINCUS and MINAHAN have given this framework with a view that social
work interventions are not unilateral and ‘people’s participation’ is needed
in almost all situations. In this approach, social worker enters into a system,
thereby consciously altering its previous state and balance as a means of
attaining explicit goals. The underlying assumption in developing the
unitary method or integrated approach to social work intervention was that
regardless of the many forms social work practice can take, there is a
common core of concepts, skills, tasks and activities which are essential to
the practice of social work and represent a base from which the
practitioner can build. The traditional social work theories and methods
have been woven around dichotomous terms (person and environment,
clinical practice or social action, micro-system and/or macro system) that,
in some way, provided a myopic perspective of viewing social reality.

6. 1) This unitary model should provide an all-encompassing framework, avoiding
conceptualizing social work practice in dichotomous terms like either case
work or social action, individualist or collective approach. It is believed that
the strength of the profession lies in recognizing and working with the
connections between these elements.
2) The social worker has tasks to develop and maintain relationships with a
variety of people in any planned change effort (and not with the clients and
his/her family only).
3) The social worker is required to work with and through many different sizes
and types of systems (one to one relationships, families, community groups) in
helping a client.
4) There should be selective and judicious use of theories (ego, learning,
communication, etc.) in understanding social situations.
5) There should be selective and judicious use of theories (ego, learning,
communication, etc.) in understanding social situations.

7. UNDERSTANDING VARIOUS
SYSTEMS
Change
Agent
System
Client
System
Target
System
Action
System

8. Change Agent System: Change Agent may be
any person or group, professional or non-
professional, inside or outside a system, who
is attempting to bring about change in that
system. A change agent is a helper who is
specifically employed for the purpose of
creating planned change. It may be an
agency, NGO or social worker.

9. Client System: It is the ‘specific system
that is being helped’. Client system may be
the individual, family, group, organization
or community which, in addition to being
the expected beneficiary of services, is a
system that asks for help and engages the
services of social worker as a change
agent.

10. Target System: This system includes the people the change agent needs to
change or influence in order to accomplish his/her goals from the target
system
It is used to describe those with whom social worker deals in
his efforts to accomplish the tasks and achieve the goals of the
change efforts. An action system can be used to obtain
sanctions and a working agreement or contract, in order to
identify and study a problem, establish goals for change or
influence the major targets of change

11.  An integrated curriculum causes students to make connections in
their learning across subjects or between various areas of a specific
subject. This is a more realistic learning experience. In “real-life,”
problems are rarely as siloed as subjects in school can be. Teaching
in an integrated manner helps students see problem solving as
complex and multi-layered.
 An integrated approach to learning provides students
with overarching organizing ideas and concepts, which help them
develop the bigger picture and not see learning episodically.
Instead, they begin to internalize the process of making connections
across disciplines and/or among topics within a discipline.
 Integrated learning provides opportunities for students
to develop and value multiple perspectives that come not only from
different people’s interpretations but different disciplinary
approaches to a particular problem or situation.