The first laws emerging in England in 1601, governing provisions for the poor
What are the Elizabethan poor laws
100
This woman founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr.
Who is Jane Addams
100
Social workers understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for change.
What is the Importance of Human Relationships
100
A social worker in this field of practice will want to be familiar with guidelines around mandated reporting as well as policies around working with people below the age of 18.
What is child and family practice
100
Engagement, Assessment, Intervention/Prevention, Evaluation, and Ending describes this process.
What is the Planned Change Process
200
The name of the first settlement house that was founded in 1889.
What is Hull House
200
This man is considered the grandfather of the foster care movement. In the mid to late 1800’s he began the orphan train movement and founded the Children’s Aid Society.
Who is Charles Loring Brace
200
Social workers treat each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity.
What is Dignity and the Worth of the Person
200
A social worker in this field of practice will want to be familiar with laws around residency and benefits for undocumented and documented residents from another country.
What is practice with immigrants and refugees
200
A theory used in social work practice that states that a system is comprised of multiple components that interact and transact with one another to create an entire entity.
What is systems theory
300
An organization that was established in 1865 to help former black slaves with food, housing, medical aid, schooling and legal assistance in the aftermath of the Civil War.
What is The Freedman's Bureau.
300
This woman was the US Secretary of Labor in the mid 1930s-1940s. She was the first woman to be appointed to the US cabinet under FDR. She helped to establish unemployment benefits under the social security act and welfare for the poor.
Who is Frances Perkins
300
Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice.
What is Competence
300
A social worker in this field will want to understand some of the cultural expectations related to being a part of the Army, Air Force, Marines, or Navy.
What is practice with the military and military families
300
This concept is at the core of social work practice. It supports the autonomy and self-determination of people and communities that have experienced a sense of powerlessness and lack of influence.
What is Empowerment
400
The name of the organizations that used “friendly visitors” to try and help support people in determining how to solve their own problems.
What are Charity Organization Societies.
400
In the mid to late 1800’s this woman was an activist on behalf of the “indigent insane” and lobbied for the creation of “mental asylums”
Who is Dorthea Dix
400
Social Workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. They strive to ensure access to information, services & resources; equality of opportunity.
What is Social Justice
400
A social worker in this field of practice will want to understand the biological AND social contributors and impacts of things like alcoholism or gambling.
What is practice with substance use and addiction.
400
A social work approach where the client is seen as the expert and where there is a belief that all clients possess strengths that can be used to help them in the face of adversity.
What is the Strengths-based approach or Strengths-based practice.
500
This act was established in 1935 as an attempt to establish a system of benefits that would assist older adults, blind, dependent people and children.
What is the Social Security Act
500
This woman was the first to put into writing a comprehensive set of principles to direct social work practice. She was instrumental in calling for schools to formally train professional social workers.
Who is Mary Richmond
500
Social workers draw from their knowledge, professional values and skills in order to help people in need.
What is Service
500
A social worker in this field of practice will want to understand normal, expected biological and social changes and transitions that happen later in life.
What is gerontological social work or practice with aging or older adults.
500
Practice that is based on research. Research that shows which treatments or interventions have been found to be most effective with a particular problem or population.