1. Macro Practice in Social Work
Materials from Social Work Macro Practice 4th edition
Netting, Kettner, McMurtry and other sources as cited.

2. Macro Practice Defined
Macro Practice is professionally guided intervention designed to bring about planned change in organizations and communities.

3. ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION
Macro social work is the practice of helping individuals and groups solve social problems and make social change at the community, organizational, societal, and global levels. – Brueggemann, 2006

4. Three Areas of Macro Intervention

5. Levels of Involvement in Social Work Practice
Micro - The most basic system, referring to an individual's most immediate environment
Mezzo - A more generalized system referring to the interactional processes between multiple microsystems (i. e., effects of spousal relationships on parent-child interactions).
Macro - Settings on a more generalized level which affect indirectly, family interactions on the micro and meso levels (i. e., the effects of parent's employment on family interactions).

6. Levels of Intervention
Micro
Macro
Individuals
Domestic Unit
Small Groups
Organizations
Communities
Policy

7. Some Professional Roles of Macro Social Workers
Planners
Policy Analyst
Program Coordinator
Community Organizer
Manager
Administrator

8. The Interrelationship of Micro and Macro Social Work Practice
Find the
Faith Healer
Social Worker
Psychotherapist

9. Unfaithful Angels?
Social work, having adopted values of individualism and having been socialized to organizational norms, along with mainstream society has abandoned in large part its understanding of the social and communal.
From Unfaithful Angels- How Social Work Has Abandoned Its Mission

10. Saul Alkinsky is quoted as saying about social workers:
They come to the people of the slums not to help them rebel and fight their way out of the muck..most social work does not even reach the submerged masses. Social work is largely a middle class activity and guided by a middle class psychology.

11. How are direct practice social workers involved in macro practice?

12. A Systematic Approach to Macro Social Work Practice

13. What is “theory”? A way to connect observable events.
Theories give us a LENS for a clearer way of seeing and understanding
Helps organize our thinking.
A theory is useful to the degree that it can
Describe
Explain
Predict
Must be abstract to be useful

14. Systems Theory Importance of integration and functioning Boundaries
Negotiate environment
Resources for the system can be people, equipment, funding knowledge, legitimacy or other forms.

15. Community Practice: Based in Social Work’s Purpose & Mission

16. Community Practice: NASW
“A historic and defining feature of social work is the profession’s focus on individual well-being in a social context and the well-being of society. Fundamental to social work is attention to the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in living” (NASW preamble)

17. Three Principles
Autonomy
Beneficence
Social Justice

18. Social Justice
Social justice is a dynamic goal or condition of democratic societies and includes equitable access to societal institutions, resources, opportunities, rights, goods, services, responsibilities for all groups and individuals without arbitrary limitations based on observed or interpretations of differences in age, color, culture, physical or mental disability, education, gender, income, language, national origin, race, religion or sexual orientation.

19. Summary Macro social workers
1. use a informed systems approach to identify goals and outcomes
2. value consumer/collaborator participation
3. embrace professional social worker identity by thinking critically