Historical Practice
These were “community centers established by upper and middle-class reformers in impoverished urban neighborhoods, primarily from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, to serve immigrants and the poor. They provided vital social services, education, and healthcare, while also advocating for broader social reform to improve labor, housing, and public health conditions.”
What are settlement houses?
Social conversation, recreation/skill building, task, problem-solving/decision-making, focus, self-help, mutual aid, socialization, treatment, process, etc.
What are types of groups?
Before performing a procedure, a clinician must explain the material risks, benefits, and reasonable alternatives in language a typical patient can understand, verify the patient has decision-making capacity, and ensure the choice is voluntary.
What is informed consent?
Engaging Clients in an Appropriate Working Relationship
What is Phase 1?
Enabler, Advocate, Activist, Negotiator, Initiator, Researcher, Broker, Empowerer, Mediator, Educator, Coordinator, Group Facilitator, Public Speaker
What are Roles of Group Leaders?
She was a ”pioneering American social worker, the co-founder of the first American settlement house, Hull House (1889), and the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1931).”
Who is Jane Addams?
Intake, Selection of Members, Assessment and Planning, Group Development and Intervention, Evaluation and Termination
What are stages of groups?
These social workers don’t specialize, may be educated at either the bachelor’s or master’s level, and they may work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, or communities.
What are generalist social workers?
Collecting/Assessing Information
What is Phase 3?
Uses medical labels to categorize individuals with emotional or behavioral problems
What is the Medical Model?
This 1935 U.S. legislation established federal responsibility for social welfare and laid the foundation for public social services, including unemployment insurance and aid to dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act?
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning (or Transforming—unofficial)
What is the Tuckman Model of Group Development?
Engagement, Assessment, Intervention, Evaluation
What are the steps of the generalist social work practice process? (Also: What are the EPAS standards for the Social Work profession?)
Identifying Issues, Problems, Needs, Resources, and Assets
What is Phase 2?
Focus is on the interactions between the individual and his/her physical and social environments; Person-in-environment
What is the Ecological Model?
This influential African American social worker and civil rights leader co-founded the National Association of Black Social Workers and advocated for culturally competent practice in group and community settings.
Who is Whitney M. Young Jr.?
A group to which one belongs or does not belong.
What is a Membership Group?
This professional credentialing body develops the licensing exams used in most U.S. states and territories for social workers at multiple levels.
What is the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)?
Planning for Service Delivery
What is Phase 4?
Authoritarian, Democratic, Laissez-Faire
What are Leadership Style Approaches?
Emerging in the early 20th century, this method of delivering social work services emphasized diagnosing and treating individuals' social problems using casework principles—contrasting with macro or group approaches.
What is the medical or diagnostic model?
These are groups whose influence we accept & identify with.
What are Reference Groups?
According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers leading groups must take steps to protect members’ confidentiality, but they must also inform clients that this cannot be guaranteed due to this factor.
What is the voluntary nature of group member participation / the limits of confidentiality in group settings?
Identifying, Analyzing, and Implementing Empirically-Based Interventions Designed to Achieve Client Goals
What is Phase 6?
Leadership roles needed to meet specific goals set by the group.
What are Task Roles?