What is social work?
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"helping profession"
Having the needed abilities and skills to effectively help and work with clients.
Competence
What are the three levels of social work practice?
Micro, mezzo, and macro.
These laws were enacted during the Colonial period to finance welfare assistance. There was a distinction between deserving poor and non-deserving poor.
Elizabethan Poor Laws
Founded America's first school of social work.
Edward T. Devine
What are the four major goals for social work practitioners?
Help obtain services
Provide counseling/intervention
Help communities/groups provide or improve services
Participate in legislative processes
Providing help, benefits, and resources to people so they can maximize their potential and thrive.
Service
Using a particular intervention for an issue, problem, or disorder based on the results of research.
Evidence-based practice
The Food Stamps Act and Head Start were social welfare initiatives under this program.
The Great Society
Wrote the first social work book, Social Diagnosis.
Mary Richmond
A professional social must hold what credentials?
has received a social work degree and/or a certification and license
Maintaining trustworthiness and adhering to moral ideals.
Integrity
Defined as activities that secure services for and promote the rights of individuals, groups, organizations, and communities.
Advocacy
This movement focused on environmental factors and resulted in the founding of the Hull House.
Settlement Movement
Advocated and lobbied for mental health institutions.
Dorothea Dix
Name and define the two types of licensure at the master's level.
LSW
LCSW
Esteeming and appreciating each individual's uniqueness and value.
Dignity and worth of the person
Entirety of a person's dimensions of difference and social identities.
Intersectionality
This program focused on the individual factors related to poverty. Friendly visitors would conduct regular home visits to encourage clients to gain independence and live moral lives.
Charity Organization Society
Appointed the head of Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
Harry Hopkins
What are the 9 social work core competencies outlined by EPAS?
Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior
Competency 2: Engage in diversity
Competency 3: Advance human rights
Competency 4: Research
Competency 5: Engage in policy practice
Competency 6: Engage
Competency 7: Assess
Competency 8: Intervene
Competency 9: Evaluate
What are the 6 social work core values?
Competence, Dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, service, and social justice.
Working for a political campaign or advocating for legislative changes would be what type of practice?
Macro
What is the difference between indoor and outdoor relief?
Indoor: provided assistance where the non-deserving poor were sent to work
Outdoor: provided assistance to the deserving poor in their own home and communities
Partnered with Jane Addams to enact anti-lynching policies.
Ida B. Wells