Holism in social work practice

Social Work is a Holistic Approach. This document will enlighten you in how holism is integrated with social work practice.

1. Understanding Holism

2. What is Holism? Holism is a view about the internal organization of certain systems. “Holistic systems are such that their constituent parts have some of the properties that are characteristic of these things only if they are organized in such a way that they constitute a whole of the kind in question.”

3. What is Holism? Systems of beliefs of persons, scientific theories and finally our system of knowledge as a whole are considered to be holistic systems. It is claimed that experience cannot confirm or refute single beliefs or statements in isolation.

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5. Holism in Proverbs “Tiny drops of water makes an ocean”

6. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

7. Types of Holism Epistemological Holism (or Confirmation Holism) is the claim that a single scientific theory cannot be tested in isolation, because a test of one theory always depends on other theories and hypotheses. Semantic Holism is a doctrine in the Philosophy of Language to the effect that a certain part of language can only be understood through its relations to a larger segment of language, possibly the entire language.

8. What is Epistemology? Epistemology (from Greek episteme-, "knowledge + logos , study) or theory of knowledge. The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge How knowledge is relates to truth, belief, and justification. The means of production of knowledge Scepticism about different knowledge claims James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864)

9. EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTIONS What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? What do people know? How do we know what we know? Is human knowledge trustworthy? Can our senses be trusted? Difference between opinion, knowledge and wisdom

10. WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE? expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation

11. VALID KNOWLEDGE Imagination 60% Wishful thinking 20% Belief 15% Essence 05%

12. Semantic  to understand any statement within a language that they must understand its relation to a (previously understood) larger segment of the language, “All males eighteen years or older must register for the draft”