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Freya Cristea, Concept Map Report Assessment Two The idea behind the concept map was to exemplify that all the domains of social work are interdependent of each other, through this; we attempted to demonstrate that values are embedded within these domains. We developed the idea of ‘the cycle of social work’, utilizing the concept of rain water precipitation, condensation and evaporation to demonstrate the relationship and the everlasting cycle of what social workers do, denoting that we as social workers have a wealth of values that must constantly ‘recycle’ as well as that each field can come from the same ‘sea’ of work. Our map included the following domains and references: • Education and training (Copper & Briggs 2000) • Social policy practice (Chenoweth & McAuliffe 2008) • Research (Cotter, Martical, Smokowski & Robertson 2013) • Self-regulation • Community development (Hall 2014) (Estes 1998) • Working with families and partnerships (Chenoweth &McAuliffe 2008) • Management and leadership (Scottish Executive 2004) • Organizational practice (Chenoweth &McAuliffe 2008) • Healthcare sector (Cleak & Turczynski 2014) (Wong, Ki, Maharaj, Brown, Davis & Apolinsky 2014) • Working with individuals and groups • Collaborations with other disciplines (Chenoweth &McAuliffe 2008) These fields, as drawn from The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice (Chenoweth & McAuliffe 2008), were deemed as the most important; each member was assigned two areas, elaborating on the practices. We found that each domain related to each other, giving us the ability to link them all together and validate the cycle. The two assigned fields I studied were community development and collaboration with other disciplines as well as researching th... ... middle of paper ... ...com/content/23/6/639.full.pdf+html> Hall, C 2014/04/04, Social Work Practice in Community Development, Canadian Association of Social Work, viewed 18/3/14 Estes, R 1998 ‘Developmental Social Work’, A New Paradigm Shift for a new century, University of Pennsylvania, vol 1, pp. 5-6 Scottish Executive 2004, Working and learning together to build stronger communities: Scottish Executive Guidance for Community Learning and Development, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh Wong, AG , Ki, P , Maharaj, A , Brown, E , Davis, C & Apolinsky, F 2014, ‘Social Support Sources, Types, and Generativity: A Focus Group Study of Cancer Survivors and Their Caregivers’, Taylor & Francis Online, vol. 53, no. 3, viewed 13 March 2014,