Definitions
This serves as a guide to the everyday professional behaviors and standards for the field of social work
What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
A belief in human potential that is tied to the notion that all people have untapped, undetermined abilities. It is the social worker's responsibility to identify and utilized these strengths
What is Strengths Perspective?
Co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House in 1889, she is considered the "mother of social work" and was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Who is Jane Addams?
ACEs
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences?
This prestigious East Coast university offered the first social work class in 1898
What is Columbia University?
Those professionals who, while acting in their professional capacity, are required by law to report suspected incidents of child abuse or maltreatment or neglect
What is a mandated reporter?
This theory proposes that behavior is influenced by a variety of factors that work together...a person’s parents, friends, school, economic class, home environment and other factors all influence how a person thinks and acts..
What is systems theory?
This social worker was also a civil rights activist and author who's best known novel was eventually turned into a Spielburg directed movie and broadway play
Who is Alice Walker?
CSWE
The national association that accredits BSW and MSW degree programs across the U.S.
In 1955, this social work advocacy organization was founded, and now has over 120,000 social work members
What is NASW?
Recognizes the rights/needs of clients to make their own choices and decisions without interference
What is Self-Determination?
The concept that states that a person is heavily influenced by their environment
What is Person in Environment (PIE)?
Civil rights pioneer and president of the National Council of Negro Women who earned a master's degree in social work and organized the 1963 March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Dorothy Height?
APS
What is Adult Protective Services
This is the year the US government officially recognized social worker month
What is 1984?
Requires social workers to examine their own cultural backgrounds and identities to increase awareness of personal assumptions, values, stereotypes, and biases, which informs their practice and influences relationships with clients
What is Cultural Competency?
Erik Erikson’s framework that proposes individuals pass through eight distinct conflicts throughout life, such as "Trust vs. Mistrust.
What is Psychosocial Development Theory?
Civil rights leader and social worker who served as Executive Director of the National Urban League and influenced President Johnson’s "War on Poverty".
Who is Whitney M. Young Jr.
IEP
Individualized Educational Plan
Launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, this ambitious initiative created programs like Head Start, Food Stamps, and Job Corps to eliminate poverty.
What is the War on Poverty?
An increase in perceived self-efficacy, resulting from a belief in the ability to positively influence ones’ environment and improve personal circumstances.
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race/ethnicity, class, gender, religion, sexuality as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
What is Intersectionality Theory?
A lifelong pacifist and suffragist, this social worker was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
Who is Jeanette Rankin?
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act created these two major federal healthcare programs.
What are Medicare & Medicaid?