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ERIC Number: EJ1107175
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1043-7797
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Applying Research to Enhance Capacity: A Unifying Purpose for an Integrated Profession
Keenan, Elizabeth King
Journal of Social Work Education, v52 suppl1 pS62-S73 2016
For more than a century the social work profession has had a dual purpose: to promote individual well-being and social justice, but the micro-macro divide is fragmenting the profession. This article suggests that the profession's aim might best be realized by adopting a unifying purpose, a just sense of well-being. Research on complex adaptive systems conceptualizes a unifying purpose as vertical integration carried out in differentiated ways in discrete moments of practice in various settings. Interpersonal neurobiology and Aristotle's interdependence of character virtues and practical judgment inform a corresponding shift from the dualities of personal and professional to the social worker as a person with differentiated professional capacities and activities. Integration with differentiation enhances capacity to promote the profession's purpose.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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