change
Another word for planned change
What is an intervention?
The different levels of social work practice
What is Micro, Macro, Mezzo
Also called “vicarious traumatization” or secondary traumatization (Figley, 1995). The emotional residue or strain of exposure to working with those suffering from the consequences of traumatic events. It differs from burn-out, but can co-exist. This can occur due to exposure on one case or can be due to a “cumulative” level of trauma.
Compassion Fatigue
Being a social worker is easy. It's like riding this.
What is a bike?
*except the bike is on fire, you're on fire, everything is on fire.
This famous inspirational nun wrote in her plan to her superiors that it was MANDATORY for her nuns to take an entire year off from their duties every 4-5 years to allow them to heal from the effects of their care-giving work.
Mother Teresa
letting go of old ways
unfreezing
An approach in social work that focuses on the attributes and assets to service-users.
What is "strengths-based approach"?
Limits set by the social worker regarding their role to ensure effective job performance, their own well-being, as well as personal privacy.
What is professional boundaries
This social worker said, "I do this for the money".
What is No Social Worker Ever?
identify at least 2 symptoms of Compassion fatigue
When considering social work and human service practice and the dilemmas inherent with the empowerment approach, which of the following is correct?
Select one:
a. Given that empowerment can mean different things to different people, it is crucial that management have the last say on what sorts of empowerment policies are put into effect.
b. Notwithstanding cultural differences, empowerment approaches recognise that all groups highly value empowerment
c. All the available options
d. People can actively participate in their own oppression
d.People can actively participate in their own oppression
According to the AASW’s Code of Ethics (2010), which of the following are core values for the profession
Select one:
a.The relationship between clients/service users and social workers is central
b.The pursuit of human rights for all people but especially those who are oppressed or denied their rights through injustice by others. c.Social justice, respect for persons, and professional integrity
d.Valuing humanity and difference.
c.Social justice, respect for persons, and professional integrity
This is a series of questions asked at the beginning of treatment and helps to create a treatment plan.
What is the biopsychosocial assessment
Sometimes I have to remind people that I am a social worker and not this type of worker.
What is a miracle worker?
This theorist focuses his work on bonding and attachment.
What is Bruce Perry
opportunity to alter the flow of events in your life
what is change
According to social work and human service best practice, evidence based practice is:
Select one:
a.All the available options.
b.The outcome of agency initiated evaluation processes that go on to inform best practice.
c.Locating, evaluating and integrating the best available research evidence with clinical expertise while also considering the clients’ background, preferences and values when making clinical decisions.
d.Practice that is evaluated by senior clinicians who rigorously measure the outcomes against ‘expert consensus’ and it then forms the basis for policy and procedures.
c.Locating, evaluating and integrating the best available research evidence with clinical expertise while also considering the clients’ background, preferences and values when making clinical decisions.
Identify as precisely as possible the problem or problems.
Generate possible alternative solutions.
Evaluate the alternative solutions.
Select a solution or solutions to be used and set goals.
Implement the solution(s)
Follow up to evaluate how the solution(s) worked.
What is the problem solving process
It takes this number of social workers to change a lightbulb.
What is one?
*but the lightbulb has to want to change
This type of therapy can be helpful for people with trauma history. The therapy focuses on crossing the mid-line of the brain.
What is EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprogramming)
establishing change as a new habit
what is refreezing
In Social work and human services practice, which of the following is not correct with respect to the purpose of social work?
Select one:
a.Social work practice aims to improve people’s capacity to control and exercise power over their own lives.
b.The professional purpose of social workers is, in accordance with their employing agency context, to fit clients into their current social arrangements irrespective of the social component of the client’s difficulties.
c.Having a clear purpose for social work practice is critical to the establishment of a social worker’s practice framework.
d.Social workers should aim to build more equitable relationships between people and their social arrangements.
b.The professional purpose of social workers is, in accordance with their employing agency context, to fit clients into their current social arrangements irrespective of the social component of the client’s difficulties.
1. Every individual, group, family, and community has strengths
2. Trauma and abuse, illness and struggle may be injurious but they may also be sources of challenge and opportunity
3. Assume that you do not know the upper limits of the capacity to grow and change and take individual, group, and community aspirations seriously
4. We best serve clients by collaborating with them.
5. Every environment is full of resources
What are Saleebey’s Five Principles of the Strengths Perspective?
A holiday movie about child abandonment and multiple agency failings.
What is Home Alone?
This is something social workers must do to survive
practice self-care