Ethics and Values
This principle refers to keeping client information private unless legally required to disclose it.
What is confidentiality?
This theory views individuals as being influenced by multiple systems (family, school, community).
What is systems theory?
Social workers in this setting help individuals address legal issues, including child custody, probation, or incarceration.
What is the criminal justice system?
This person is often called the founder of modern social work in the U.S.
Who is Jane Addams?
This acronym refers to the manual used for diagnosing mental health disorders.
What is the DSM?
This core social work value emphasizes the importance of allowing clients to make their own decisions.
What is self-determination?
This model emphasizes a client's assets, abilities, and potential rather than their problems.
What is the strengths-based approach?
This practice setting involves helping clients cope with chronic illness or recovery.
What is medical/hospital social work?
This 1935 legislation established programs such as Social Security and unemployment insurance, laying the foundation for the U.S. welfare system.
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?
This term refers to someone who is legally required to report suspected abuse or neglect.
What is a mandated reporter?
Engaging in a personal relationship with a client while providing services is considered this type of boundary issue.
What is a dual relationship?
This theory focuses on how people think about and interpret their life experiences.
What is cognitive theory?
Social workers in child welfare often create and monitor these plans to ensure children's safety and family reunification.
What are case plans or service plans?
The Charity Organization Societies and Settlement House Movement were part of this early era of social work.
What is the Progressive Era?
This level of practice involves working with individuals or families.
What is micro-level practice?
When a client is at risk of harming themselves or others, social workers may break confidentiality under this ethical concept.
What is duty to warn/protect?
This model involves understanding a person's behavior through the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
School social workers often play a key role in developing and implementing this type of plan for students with disabilities, ensuring they receive the appropriate accommodations and services.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?
This 1990 law mandates accessibility and accommodations for individuals with disabilities in public spaces, schools, and workplaces.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
This term describes an interview technique used to build motivation for change.
What is motivational interviewing?
This ethical standard involves being honest and transparent in professional interactions, avoiding deception or misrepresentation.
What is integrity?
In this theory, reinforcement and punishment are used to shape behavior.
What is behaviorism/operant conditioning?
This setting involves working with the legal system, helping individuals involved in crimes or custody cases.
What is forensic social work?
This 1964 act aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, launching key programs such as Head Start, job training, and legal aid.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964?
This acronym refers to a therapeutic approach that helps individuals identify and change dysfunctional thinking patterns, often used in mental health treatment.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?