Describe some specific examples of social welfare problem issues in communities where you have lived or worked. Would they likely call for collaboration, campaign, or conflict intervention strategies? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
Below is a review of the three intervention and the types of problem issues for which each is most appropriate:
• Collaboration: Members of the client system, target system (those from whom change is sought), and action system (all who participate in the change effort) agree about the issue of concern. The social worker can thus engage in a collaborative process of problem solving with members of all three groups. Intervention will not necessarily be easy, but it will include participants who can work collaboratively about the basic issue.
• Campaign: The client, target, and action systems communicate well and have positive regard for one another, but lack consensus about the problem issue. The social worker’s change tactics in this situation will include education, persuasion, and lobbying for greater consensus. Members of the client population will of course have an active role in this campaign process. This process may include conflict, depending on the receptiveness of the target system to the educational efforts.
• Contest: The target and action systems are in opposition to each other about the presenting issue. The social worker, who supports the position of the client population and opposes that of the action system, must then initiate bargaining, negotiation, and perhaps confrontation tactics. The social workers, as well as other staff participating in the contest, became highly confrontational through the process, participating appropriately in the series of planning meetings with county administrators but consistently presenting opinions and data to oppose the changes.
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