By Ian Mathews
Social paintings in sleek society calls for practitioners to be culturally and spiritually delicate. This booklet explores the usually not easy relationships among spirituality, faith and social paintings. It considers the talents, wisdom and values which are required to include a non secular wisdom into social paintings perform and in doing so explores in larger intensity the social worker/service person courting. by utilizing case stories, reflective routines and different studying positive factors, scholars will start to relish and comprehend the significance of a spiritually delicate method of their social paintings perform.
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The demise of traditional manufacturing industries such as coal mining and steel has meant that unskilled men, who previously would have had a job for life, now find gaining any sort of meaningful employment difficult. Middle-class men (and women) need to work longer and longer hours in increasingly competitive work environments just to pay the mortgage and to maintain their standard of living. Men are more likely than women to be physically and mentally ill, and to engage in high-risk behaviour.
Culture can be simplistically defined as the social context in which we live our lives. It refers to the language that we use, our shared perceptions and understanding of the world, our history and heritage, national institutions, our ethnicity, religion, unspoken rules such as manners and hierarchies, the way that we dress, and many other things as well. Culture is passed down from generation to generation and is given to us in a number of different ways – via our education, our upbringing in our families, the influence of our peers, and what we read and what we see in the media.
For example, Charles seems to have a number of problems, doesn’t he? His family background does not appear to have been helpful to him and he seems to have had real difficulty finding a meaningful place for himself in life. As a social worker you will need to develop a range of skills and insights in order to work with people like Charles. It may be that part of the problem is that he is searching for identity and security. Many of the people we work with have had such difficult experiences in life that sometimes these attributes can be very elusive.