History
The first laws emerging in England in 1601, governing provisions for the poor
Elizabethan poor laws
This woman founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr. She also was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author.
Jane Addams
Social workers understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for change
Importance of human relationships
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.
Child Welfare
Engagement, assessment, intervention/prevention, evaluation, ending
Planned change process
The name of the first settlement house that was founded in 1889
Hull house
She is regarded as the mother of professional social work along with Jane Addams. She founded social casework, the first method of social work. 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.
Mary Richmond
Social workers treat each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity.
Dignity and worth of the person
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
Chemical Health
Information that tells us which type of treatment or intervention has been found to be most effective for a particular problem or population
Evidence-based practice
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.
Social Security Act
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.
Frances Perkins
Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice.
Competence
Social workers in this area of practice are part of an interdisciplinary team of professionals. Their role in this setting is to do rapid risk assessments, assessments, intervetions, referrals, advocacy, and they must have knowledge on skills needed for competent care.
Medical
This is at the social workers support the autonomy and self-determination of people and communities that experience a sense of powerlessness and lack of influence
Empowerment
Used volunteer cooperation to make services systematic and efficient. The name of the organizations that used “friendly visitors” to try and help support people in determining how to solve their own problems
Charity Organization Society (COS)
In the mid to late 1800s this woman was an activist on behalf of the “indigent insane” and lobbied for the creation of “mental asylums”.
Dorthea Dix
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
Social justice
Social workers are one of the largest providers in this area of practice. In this role a social worker would determine service legibility, conduct biopsychosocial-spritiual assessments, implement therapeutic treatment, and provide crisis intervention.
Mental Health
The focus or theoretical orientation of social work is where the client is seen as the expert and that they possess strengths that can be used in the face of adversity.
Strength-based practice/ approach
This movement marked a further step from systematic helping in social work. This helped establish an occupation in a broad spectrum of practice areas such as medical social work, mental health, prisons, employment, and schools.
Professionalization
She was an active journalist, researcher, and activist in the late 19th and early 20th century. She battled against violence, sexism, and racism. She investigated many of the lynchings of black men in her area to expose that they were falsely lynched by white mob violence. She would confront white women in the suffrage movement who would ignore lynching. Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Ida B. Wells
Social workers draw from their knowledge, professional values, and skills in order to help people in need.
Service
Schools
A system is comprised of multiple components that interact with another to create an entire entity
Systems theory