Briefly describe the difference between the residual and institutional approaches to providing social welfare services

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: Institutional social welfare services are in place to prevent people from having a problem. They are
proactive and provide benefits of services to people before problems arise. Residual services come into
play only after there is a specific, identifiable problem. Residual services are designed to meet only the
identified problem.

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Outcome research in the United States suggests that one thing more than any other accounts for change in individual and family therapy. What is it?

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