Social Work Roles
Social worker voices the client's needs.
What is advocate?
The act of treating someone based on belonging to a particular group.
What is discrimination?
The actual doing of the plan.
What is implementation?
This concept recognizes the client or community has untapped abilities and resources for overcoming barriers and limitations.
What is strengths perspective?
Professional standards guiding professional behaviors for social workers.
What is the Code of Ethics?
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What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
The social worker coordinates a variety of services for a client.
What is case manager?
The ability to recover from adversity and to continue to function in spite of the effects.
What is resiliency?
The end of the professional social worker-client relationship.
What is termination?
Organizational and community settings
What are macro systems?
Service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence.
What are the core values of social work?
The social worker used the planned change process to assist the client.
What is counselor?
The concept that people are complex and can belong to multiple, overlapping, diverse groups.
What is intersectionality?
The stage of building rapport and orienting to the problem.
What is engagement?
The application of knowledge, skills, and values to target change at micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
What is generalist practice?
Having the necessary skills and abilities to work effectively with clients.
What is competence?
The social worker connects the client to resources.
What is broker?
Involves placing extreme limitations or constraints on an individual, group, or larger system.
What is oppression?
The process of gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing information.
What is assessment?
The application of critical thinking skills to a problem solving process with systems of various sizes.
What is planned change?
Maintaining trustworthiness and sound adherence to moral ideals.
What is integrity?
The social worker aids in a fair resolution.
What is mediator?
The condition of being viewed as insignificant or less powerful because of the societal group one belongs to.
What is marginalization?
Problems and needs are prioritized, alternatives utilizing client strengths are identified, and goals are developed for intervention.
What is Planning?
The support of each individual's right to make their own decisions through an informed evaluation process of resources, alternatives, and consequences.
What is self-determination?
Upholding the condition that in a "perfect world" all citizens would have equal rights, opportunities, and benefits regardless of background or diversity.
What is social justice?