Chapter 1
a limited response to human need, implemented when all else fails
What is the RESIDUAL VIEW?
A worldwide economic downturn (1929) that largely affected the social work field.
What is the GREAT DEPRESSION?
Being able to understand the client's pain without necessarily feeling it.
What is EMPATHY?
A sense of belonging to the group.
What is COHESION?
Comes naturally as a sense of perceiving sound
Working with organizations that formulate, analyze, develop, and evaluate social policies and programs
What is Indirect Social Work
An approach to social work that derived from the notion of "settling in".
What is the SETTLEMENT HOUSE MOVEMENT?
Practice that focuses on formal groups, organizations, and service delivery networks.
What is MESO-LEVEL PRACTICE?
Warmth, Empathy, and Genuineness are attributes of this.
What is THE HELPING RELATIONSHIP?
Who is Liz Murray?
Disability, illness, violence, homelessness, substance use, racism, discrimination, warfare, and death
What are contingencies that affect the INTEGRITY OF THE PERSON?
An ongoing movement that emerged in November 2012 as a response to Bill C-45.
What is IDLE NO MORE?
Premised on the idea that individuals are part of wider social systems that can be identified and "mapped".
What is the SYSTEMS THEORY?
A popular approach to community work that builds upon the strengths and assets of a community rather than focusing on the community's needs.
What is COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING?
Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children. They asked the Supreme Court of Canada to answer the question, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
Who are the Famous Five?
Increasing personal, interpersonal, or political power so that one can improve one's particular situation.
What is EMPOWERMENT?
An approach to social work that rejected moral judgements and encouraged a "scientific" assessment of human behavior and ways of finding solutions.
What is SCIENTIFIC PHILANTHROPY?
General explanations about the underlying makeup and workings of our society.
What are FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES/ PERSPECTIVES?
A Centre in Montreal that works within a feminist framework to challenge systemic oppressions.
What is the Concordia University-based CENTRE FOR GENDER ADVOCACY.
The art of Deep Listening
What workers do on the ground every day.
Two approaches that emerged after World War II
What are diagnostic and functional approaches?
A structured, goal-oriented treatment that emphasizes the "here and now" rather than the past.
What is COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY?
A process of reflection and action in the Freirian approach to social change.
What is the CONCEPT OF PRAXIS?
A service that picks up individuals when needing transportation to services
What is the DOAP Team?