Advocacy and Social Action with Populations at Risk
Representing, championing, or defending the rights of others.
What is Advocacy?
This is the comprehensive process by which external pressures affect individuals emotionally and physically, producing internal tension.
What is stress?
This type of community shares a specific place or space.
What is spatial?
After the information has been gathered it can be placed in a pictorial format. This figure shows focus on members of a neighborhood association and their skills and connections.
What is a Community Asset Map?
The use of this question can be threatening. It can put people on the spot and can imply that the person to whom the question is directed is at fault in some way.
What is the question why?
Ensuring that others have the right to power, ability, and authority to achieve self-determination.
What is empowerment?
The alarm phase, resistance or repair phase and exhaustion phase are all a part of the stress response system, also known as what?
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
There are five functions that all communities serve. Name two of them.
What is socialization, production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, social control, mutual support, participation.
These five competencies are needed to engage in effective empowerment.
What are informational, intellectual, intrapersonal, interpersonal and interventional competency?
This type of communication includes verbal and nonverbal behavior that permits a speaker to get points across clearly and straightforwardly. It takes into consideration both values (the speaker) and values of who is receiving the message.
What is assertive?
A coordinated effort to achieve institutional change to meet a need, solve a problem, correct an injustice, or enhance the quality of human life.
What is Social Action?
This is a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that results from constant or repeated emotional pressures associated with an intense, long-term involvement with people.
What is burnout?
This perspective or theory emphasizes the importance of the transactions between systems within an environment.
What is Ecosystems or Ecological Theory?
The purpose of this phase is to learn whether the identified objectives were achieved.
What is Evaluation phase?
“Look at yourself, use a calendar, delegate, leave time for contemplation and review your weekly progress” are some of the principles for what?
What is time management?
Participatory action research (PAR) is a method of involving people affected by a problem in efforts to study the issue, identify and carry out appropriate interventions and evaluate the success of the effort. Its focus is on social action to bring about this.
What is Societal Change?
This person developed the ABCDE theory of irrational thinking.
Who is Albert Ellis?
Learning theory falls under this perspective that is useful for understanding the behavior of individuals and families and less useful for larger systems.
What is Human Behavior Perspective?
Starting with an idea, mustering support, identifying assets, specifying goals, implementing the plan, neutralizing opposition, and evaluating progress are the seven steps for initiating an implementing this.
What is a Macro Change?
This is a Stress-management strategy in which one tightens and relaxes muscles set by set.
What is Progressive muscle relaxation?
African Americans, Hispanics, First Nations People (Native Americans), Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Women, Lesbian and Gay Persons, Immigrants and Refugees, Clients Receiving Public Assistance, Homeless, are some of the many of these.
What are Populations at Risk?
Rooted in the Buddhist practice of meditation, this method of stress reduction has proven effective in lowering stress as it decreased the density of gray matter in the brain.
What is mindfulness?
Defining the scope, determining who will be involved, gathering data, identifying major findings, establishing priorities and an action plan, and disseminating the results are six steps involved in conducting this.
What is a Community Needs Assessment?
This process focuses the social worker’s attention on several steps that must be completed before moving to the implementation stage. Steps include identifying problem to address, assessing macro and personal reality, establishing primary goals, etc.
What is the engagement process?
This type of Stress management involved switching your focus from your daily concerns to your ideal relaxation place.
What is Imagery relaxation?