What are the five assumptions that are useful when examining the relationships between the individual and his/her environment?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: First, the larger social conditions (trends, ideologies, and events) have direct impacts on our understanding of human behavior in the social environment; Second, human beings and communities are mutually interdependent. Humans cannot live without communities, and communities will disintegrate when they fail to meet the needs of their individual members; Third, there are many ways to understand the interactions of individuals and their environments; Fourth, historical context is a framework that consists of important questions about events and situations surrounding our work that define our understanding of human behavior in the events we face each day as practitioners; Fifth, historical context is also a way to ask important questions about our role in the choice of human behavior theory used in specific practice situations. From its inception, social work has had a dual purpose; social control and social change.
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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