Practice
The professional activity of helping individuals, groups or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal.
What is Social Work?
The body that accredits and monitors schools that teach social work practitioners
What is the CSWE (Council on Social Work Education)?
This is the dynamic understanding of client interactions from various perspectives and in several settings.
What is systems theory?
The rules of behavior, both formal and informal, and the expectations held collectively by a culture, group, organization or society.
What are norms?
Champions for the rights of others with the goal of empowerment
What is an advocate?
This is an international organization that creates and holds professional social workers accountable and defines ethics in the profession.
What is NASW (National Association of Social Workers)?
At the undergraduate level social workers are considered this type of professional.
What is a generalist social worker?
A set of ideas that generalist social workers use to increase change possibilities. This is through providing people with the means to attain their goals either directly or indirectly, through the help of others.
What is Empowerment Theory?
This is the customs, habits, skills, arts, values, ideology, science, religious and political behaviors of a group of people in a particular time period.
What is culture?
Oversees the services provided to clients to ensure that their needs are met through quality interventions and in a timely fashion.
What is a Case Manager?
The ability to clearly understand one's own strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, and reactions.
What is self-awareness?
At the graduate level social workers may be considered this type of professional.
What is a practitioner?
This is what gives credence to the idea that every person has strengths to call on in solving their problems.
What is the strengths perspective?
What is engagement?
Intervenes in and resolves disputes in a fair and equitable fashion; finds common ground, compromises while reconciling differences, and assumes a neutral role.
What is a Mediator?
These are the three levels of intervention in social work.
What is Micro, Mezzo, and Macro?
This is hands on experience that is given to prospective social workers when seeking education in their field.
What is field experience?
When people are seen as part of and interacting with their environment with the habit of mind. This is how people are affected in positive and negative ways by their surroundings.
What is person-in-environment perspective?
This is determining the problems and strengths of the client, figuring out what to do, and making goals related to these attributes. These are typically the second and third stages of the change process.
What is assessment and planning?
This professional provides direct services that help clients articulate their needs, problems and goals. They explore options and strategies for change in light of the clients strengths and resources.
What is a Counselor?
This is the ability to reflect on and integrate information from and array of sources to form a position, opinion, or conclusion. It is an essential skills for social workers.
What is critical thinking?
LBSW, LMSW, LISW
What are the different levels for practicing social work in Iowa?
What is intersectionality?
These are the last two stages of the change process where action is taken related to established goals, and the success of the intervention is determined.
What is Implementation and Evaluation?
Conducts research projects and program evaluations to gain evidence that informs practice and policy.
What is a Researcher?