Works with at risk children and families to prevent or navigate the removal of a child from their home environment.
What is a child protective services (CPS) worker?
CPS
What is the Child Protective Services?
Works with individuals with medical issues in a hospital, nursing home, hospice house, and other medical facilities.
What is a medical social worker?
When social workers are able to work with all levels of systems and do not specialize.
What is generalist practice?
DSM
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual [of mental disorders]?
Works with students and families in an educational environment to ensure basic and educational needs are met.
What is a school social worker?
Knowledge, skills, values and ethics.
What are the three cornerstones (3 points of the triangle) that encompass social work practice?
LCSW
What is Licensed Clinical Social Worker?
A licensed individual who works with individuals with mental health disorders to discuss plans for treatment and continued care.
What is an LCSW?
The focus is on empowerment, helping clients generate solutions rather than a focus on problems, the development of concrete goals and brief, short-term work with clients.
What is the Solutions Focused Model/Approach?
NASW
What is the National Association of Social Workers?
Works at the macro level to advocate for changes that effects those who are most vulnerable and at risk.
What is a policy and political social worker?
The most popular MSW career post graduation.
What is a Child and Family Social Worker
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?