General
SW terms
SW terms
The ability to meet the client where they are creating the opportunity for the client to share concerns.
What is joining?
An approach that assumes every client has identifiable positive attributes and assets that can be employed to overcome problems in living.
What is the strengths perspective?
Negative assumptions about people from different cultural groups that are held unconsciously without realizing it.
What is implicit bias?
The family member who is nonconformist, rebellious, or otherwise acts as the catalyst for problems inherent in the family system.
Who is the scapegoat?
Beck & Ventura’s FT approach which states that change in families occurs through modifying dysfunctional thought patterns.
What is Cognitive behavioral Family Therapy or CBFT?
The step in the planned change model where Sw’s gather information about the client system.
What is assessment?
The umbrella framework used to understand both social welfare problems and individual needs, and guide interventions at various levels of practice.
What is the ecological perspective?
Name two of the six ethical social work principles of SW.
Any two: service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence.
The family member that strives to be a higher achiever in order to please or honor their parents.
What is the hero/golden child?
This 3rd wave FT method focuses on the stories family members have internalized about family history and current relationships.
What is Narrative Family Therapy?
Working with colleagues of other professions in order to meet client needs.
What is interdisciplinary collaboration?
The concept and process of increasing our client‘s personal, interpersonal and political power so that they act to improve their situation.
What is the empowerment perspective?
A social worker could lose their license if they have this kind of relationship with a client.
What is a sexual relationship?
Rules such as “appearances are everything” or “silence is golden” that are hidden from family members awareness and can be difficult to detect without careful observation of behavior.
What are implicit rules?
This FT method promoted by Minuchin focuses on changing dysfunctional family interaction patterns, boundaries, hierarchy, and subsystems.
What is structural FT?
A living document that contains standards of moral practice/conduct for the profession of social work.
What is the NASW Code of ethics?
The approach that seeks to understand human behavior by taking into account cultural norms, values and practices.
What is the cultural perspective?
The form of racism embedded in the laws and policies of a society.
What is systemic racism?
Rules such as “respect your elders” or “homework before screen time”, that family members readily recognize and can articulate.
What are explicit rules?
The FT approach favored by Bowen that views the family as an interconnected emotional unit where each member’s behavior and emotional state affect and are affected by others.
What is systemic FT?
The type of social worker who delivers client services for pay or on an independent, autonomous basis rather than undertone auspices of an agency.
What is private practice?
The approach that states clients know the most about their problems and needs, and with assistance and support can work out their own solutions.
What is client centeredness or client centered perspective?
in order to understand how oppression works in society, we must also understand this, the opposite of oppression.
What is privilege?
The child who tends to be emotionally, sensitive, overlooked, or ignored within the family
Who is the lost child?
The FT approach that explores how unresolved conflicts and traumas from past generations influence current family behaviors, relationships and problems.
What is transgenerational family therapy?