Social Work at TCU
This TCU college is home to the social work program.
What is Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences?
This theory explains how individuals are influenced by multiple environmental systems, from family to culture to public policy.
What is Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory?
This document sets forth the values, principles, and standards that guide social workers’ conduct.
What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
In this area of practice, a social worker helps veterans and their families transition to civilian life.
What is Military Social Work?
This goes all around the world but stays in a corner.
What is a stamp?
The BSW Program Director.
Who is Professor Tenisha Polk-Potts?
This perspective focuses on clients’ abilities, resilience, and resources rather than their deficits or problems.
What is the Strengths Perspective?
In this ethical principle, social workers care about and respect others while remaining mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity.
What is Dignity and Worth of the Person?
This kind of social worker provides counseling, conducts psychosocial assessments, and develops an individualized care plan for each client. They can also work in groups or diagnose clinical disorders.
What is Mental Health or Substance Abuse Social Work?
This has 13 hearts but no other organs.
What is a deck of cards?
At TCU, this culminates the academic experience by placing students in agencies under supervision so they can apply classroom theory in real-world practice.
What is Practicum Education (field)?
This approach recognizes the widespread impact of people's varying life experiences and emphasizes safety, trust, and empowerment in practice.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
When practicing this ethical principle, social workers pursue change, primarily focusing on issues like poverty, unemployment, and discrimination.
What is Social Justice?
A social worker in this area may advocate for social change at the mezzo or macro levels, working with entire cities or populations of people. They may even travel abroad!
What is Community Social Work?
This English word is almost always pronounced incorrectly.
What is the word “incorrectly”?
This TCU faculty member serves as MSW Program Director and Associate Professor in Social Work.
Who is Dr. Tee Tyler?
In Bronfenbrenner’s theory, this system includes immediate settings like family, school, and peers.
What is the microsystem?
The mission of this organization is to enhance the growth and development of its members, create and maintain professional standards for all social workers, and advance sound social policies.
What is the National Association of Social Workers?
This social worker often works with budgets, program design and evaluation, policy writing and revision, or community/departmental strategy management. Think: office job.
What is a Social Work Administrator?
This will go up a chimney down, but won’t go down a chimney up.
What is an umbrella?
This collaborative TCU program pairs students from social work, nursing, and other disciplines with older adult mentors in the community to learn together in real practice settings.
What is SAGE (Seniors Assisting in Geriatric Education)?
In Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, this system includes broader cultural values, laws, and societal norms that indirectly shape a person’s life.
What is the macrosystem?
These six core values guide ethical practice in the social work profession, according to the NASW Code of Ethics. (List them.)
What are service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence?
This niche kind of social worker serves within a specific community organization/agency that often interacts with people who are experiencing homelessness. Hint: it’s not a shelter!
What is Library Social Work?
This is what it’s called when two doctors are in the same room.
What is a paradox? (A pair of docs)