AOP with Individuals, Families
This is described as "feeling with people" and emphasizes emotional connection and understanding.
What is "empathy?"
This model of policy advocacy aims to change the composition of the government and does this through the participation in policy action committees, organizing campaigns, and creating or joining electoral coalitions.
What is "ballot-based advocacy?"
This critical theoretical perspective is relevant to group and community work, and describes a pathway to personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical change.
What is the "empowerment perspective?"
This is the search for purpose, meaning, and morally fulfilling relations with the self, other's, and the larger universe.
What is "spirituality?"
This type of critical policy analysis is characterized by examining the ways that policy regulates women's lives, unveils gendered assumptions and stereotypes informing policy, and rejects the notion of gender neutrality.
What is "feminist policy analysis?"
In traditional social work, the term "assessment" is used to describe information gathering for diagnostic purposes, but in anti-oppressive practice, this phrase is used to emphasize collaborative information sharing to determine culturally relevant interventions.
What is "teaching and learning?"
This model of policy advocacy aims to increase the effectiveness of programs and policies through engaging in social planning, legal monitoring, and activism in consumer-based organizations or community groups.
What is "implementation advocacy?"
This type of group is used to address a lack of knowledge in a particular, and group members' growth comes in the form of increased knowledge about a topic with the aim to bring about increased insight and behavioral change.
What are "psychoeducational" groups?
This specific type of discrimination describes the discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their faith or religious beliefs.
What is "religious discrimination?"
This key quality required for establishing strong connections with clients is characterized by accepting them without judgement, demonstrating respect and concern regardless of their actions, and acknowledges their inherent dignity and worth.
What is "unconditional positive regard?"
This model of policy advocacy aims to influence research and analysis of policies by establishing or participating in think tanks, universities, and government agencies.
What is "analytic advocacy?"
This type of group emphasizes mutual support, comfort, and connectedness to others, and group members share experiences, coping skills, wisdom, and hope to help one another.
What are "support" groups?
This is the organized structure of sets of beliefs and practices shared by a community that provide a pathway to be close to god(s) and often determine the difference between right and wrong.
What is "religion?"
This social work role in the action and accompaniment phase of practice helps reconcile differences between people by honoring different viewpoints, finding commonalities and compromise, building alliances and solidarity, and reaching mutually satisfying agreements.
What is "mediator?"
This model of policy advocacy aims to secure or block specific pieces of legislation through establishing or participating in special interest groups, community-based organizations, and professional associations.
What is "legislative advocacy?"
This type of group is rooted in evidence-based research and treatment practices, and members learn to manage complex bio-psycho-social-emotional functioning through treating mental health symptoms and addressing cognitive behavioral patterns.
What are "therapeutic" groups?
These three components are part of model used by affirming faith organizations to welcome, celebrate, and embrace members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
What are "public, intentional, and explicit?"
Using an anti-oppressive framework, this process involves gathering formal and informal feedback from clients and social workers, using collaborative efforts to identify perceptions of the process and outcomes of their work together.
What is "evaluation?"
This term refers to efforts by groups to advocate for social change characterized by collective action, change-oriented goals, action outside of institutions, with some degree of organization and continuity over time.
What are "social movements?"
This theoretical perspective is the foundation of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions through building new social relations outside of government oversight.
What is "mutual aid?"
This comprehensive assessment approach considers biological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions to provide a holistic understanding of an individual's well-being and identify possible areas for intervention.
What is a "biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment?"