Ecosystems Perspective
Empowering the Client
Social Work Basics
Social Worker Qualities
100

This system level deals with working with INDIVIDUALS, FAMILES, AND SMALL GROUPS.

What is the microlevel?

100

True or False: The best way to help your client and empower them is by doing something for them.

What is FALSE?

100

This scholar is known as the MOTHER of Social Work.. wrote "Social Diagnosis" and provided the first assessment tools.

Who is Mary Richmond?

100

This is what people consider good.

What are values?

200

This means when systems and subsystems are a part of a larger system and/or environment

What is nesting?

200

These are the experts of their own situations.

Who are the clients?

200

This type of social worker understands that problems are meant to be viewed in context and considering interventions at ALL system levels.

What is generalist social worker?

200

This is a quality of social workers that allows them to work collaboratively with clients.. it is when someone has a positive regard and genuine concern about the well-being of others.

What is genuineness?

300

This system level deals with working with neighborhoods, communities, and societies.

What is the macrolevel?

300

This is the most important action when it comes to empowering clients.

What is working with the client to develop new competencies?

300

The standard by which a court of law in the United States is likely to adjudicate charges of ethical misconduct by social workers.

What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
300

This is the quest to expand your base of knowledge and also think inwardly.

What is self-awareness?

400

True or False: Systems can be shaped, but they cannot shape or influence other systems (individuals) or subsystems and environments.

What is FALSE?
400

TRUE or FALSE: A social worker's job is to work with the client, not do it for them.

What is TRUE?

400

This is the view of social workers on personal troubles and public issues.

What is "Private troubles can become/translate into public issues?"

400

This quality recognizing the client's uniqueness and focuses on THIS client in THIS situation.

What is individualization?
500

This system level deals with working with formal groups and complex organizations, as well as the interactions between microsystem levels.

What is the mezzolevel?

500

This is when the client has the right to make informed decisions and the freedom to think, choose, and learn

What is self-determination?

500

This is the other applicable term for the "value-knowledge-skills complex" of social work.

What is the "why, what, and how of social work?"

500

This quality allows social workers to interact without prejudgment and bias and focus on clients’ narratives rather than personal projections or parallels.

What is objectivity?

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