Assignment task:
A social worker employed by a neighborhood center determines that the range of workers and other professionals working with various adolescent clients within the community are not communicating with each other. For example, school social workers have no established procedure for conveying information to protective services workers who, in turn, do not communicate readily with probation and parole workers. This is even though most of these professionals are working with many of the same clients. The neighborhood center social worker decides to pull together representatives from the various involved agencies and establish more clearly defined communication channels. • How can concepts inherent in systems theory be used to describe what's happening in this scenario? • Consider what you would do if you were the social worker running the meeting. Briefly discuss how you would guide the meeting and what the main points of discussion would be. How would issues of confidentiality factor into the discussion?