Individuals’ problems are addressed in combination with their social context.
Person-in-Environment Perspective
Medicaid, SNAP, and school breakfast/lunch are examples of this type of benefit program.
In-Kind Benefit Program
This program provides cash assistance for up to 24 consecutive months, and adults receiving benefits must spend 20 hours per week in a job or job-related activity.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
The view that trauma, abuse, illness, and struggle may be injurious to an individual but may also be sources of challenge and opportunity.
Strengths Perspective
Providing one-on-one, family and small-group services to individuals addressing a wide range of social issues.
Micro Social Work
The writer of the first social work practice book to present professional ways to identify clients' problems.
Mary Richmond
The focus of individual-level social work.
Empowerment/Solution-Focused Initiatives
The treatment method that focuses on client-acknowledged problems and employs short-term, structured sessions that include specific activities.
Task-Centered Social Work
A practice-based profession that promotes social change, development, cohesion and the empowerment of people and communities.
Social Work
The best known historic figure in the social work movement.
The perspective that people learn to be poor by growing up in poor environments.
The Cycle/Culture of Poverty
Social Work interventions that have demonstrated effectiveness.
Evidence-Based Practice
An organized set of ideas that seek to explain a particular phenomenon, which can help social workers understand complex situations.
Theory
The social and economic reforms introduced in response to the Great Depression were collectively called the ________________.
New Deal
This program provides cash assistance for people who are poor and are 65 or older, or blind or disabled.
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
The process of bringing separate groups together to work collectively on an issue of concern.
Coalition Building
Empathy, organization, communication, problem solving, and patience
Characteristics/Skills of Social Workers
Unemployment insurance, social security benefits, and medicaid are examples of this type of program.
Social Insurance Program
This government department runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Department of Agriculture
The theory that emphasizes that human behaviors are purposeful and determined, and that some of those determinants are unconscious.
Psychodynamic Theory