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Three Levels of Social Intervention

The document describes the three levels of social work interventions - micro, mezzo, and macro. At the micro level, interventions focus on individual clients and families, such as helping a family transition an older parent to assisted living. The mezzo level focuses on communities and groups, such as establishing a free health clinic for an underprivileged area. Finally, the macro level addresses societal-level problems through large-scale interventions aimed at improving quality of life locally, nationally, and internationally.

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Three Levels of Social Intervention

The document describes the three levels of social work interventions - micro, mezzo, and macro. At the micro level, interventions focus on individual clients and families, such as helping a family transition an older parent to assisted living. The mezzo level focuses on communities and groups, such as establishing a free health clinic for an underprivileged area. Finally, the macro level addresses societal-level problems through large-scale interventions aimed at improving quality of life locally, nationally, and internationally.

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3 Levels of

Social
Assessment
and
Interventions
What is Social Intervention?
Social Intervention is the engagement of a social worker with an individual, family, group, or
community that they are helping. An intervention plan in social work will be formulated based on the
client assessment to help ensure the best chance of success.

Using intervention strategies in social work, social workers will intervene in a client’s life to help them
solve a problem, get out of a negative situation, and develop support systems to keep it from
reoccurring.
Three Levels of Social Work
Interventions

Social work intervention methods will typically take place on three levels. These levels all aim to
achieve the same goal, which helps the client to achieve better outcomes and overcome issues
for a better quality of life.
What are the three levels of Social
Work Interventions?

MICRO LEVEL MEZZO LEVEL MACRO


LEVEL
MICRO-MEZZO-MACRO LEVELS SYSTEM
FRAMEWORK
Macro Level

Mezzo Level

Micro Level
Society
Political
Systems School Social
Workplace
Relationship
between
individuals

Economics Community Government


Micro Level
Micro-level of a social work assessment and intervention will on the individual level. This is where many of
those in social work are assisting clients.

Most often associated with traditional clinical social work, addresses the needs of society’s most vulnerable
groups, including children, the elderly, domestic violence victims, and those with mental illness. Some
micro social workers also provide non-clinical services, such as connecting clients with resources to improve
their well-being or cope with emergencies.

It also includes a social work intervention plan example for an individual, family plan, or small group. This
could be an intervention where a geriatric social worker is helping a family transition an older parent to an
assisted living facility, or a school social worker works one-on-one with a child with emotional issues.
Mezzo Level
Mezzo-level of social work assessment and intervention is one step up from the micro level. Here, the
social worker is helping communities or groups of institutions with issues that impact their populations.

level of social work that tends to focus on small communities such as neighborhoods or regions. Workers
at this level tend to be members of local agencies or other small organizations seeking to help develop
and advocate policies and programs designed to bring about social change on a local level.

A social work intervention plan at the mezzo level could include being in to help an underprivileged
community improve their living conditions through the establishment of a free health clinic.
Macro Level
Macro-level social work assessment and intervention is on a much larger scale than both micro and mezzo.
Social workers are typically not directly involved with those that are being assisted.

Macro-level social work addresses the challenge of alleviating societal problems to improve the quality of
life locally, nationally, and internationally. Stokes, who calls this "big picture" social work, views macro social
workers as the ones "in charge of creating the system and not just managing it." While micro social work
focuses on individuals and mezzo approaches emphasize small groups and organizations, macro social work
confronts issues at the systems level.

It will involve looking at large systematic issues that might be causing persistent problems on a city, state, or
national level. These types of social workers will be researching these problems and developing solutions
that may take years to implement.

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