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What will be an ideal response?
Ans: First, this theory now addresses discrimination and oppression by emphasizing the need for social workers to gain competence in community and legislative efforts (as well as direct practice) in order to holistically and systemically work with clients. Second, clients’ coping styles, which were used to address “problems in living,” are now understood as strengths-based coping mechanisms for managing normal life stressors. Third, in an attempt to take into account client system’s diverse backgrounds, current ecosystems writings have moved away from fixed, linear, and universal life cycle stages, to a life course approach which acknowledges the variety of ways in which individuals, families, organizations and communities change and develop.
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