Chapters 1-3: Overview & History of Social Work & Poverty
This is is our country’s system of programs, benefits, and services that support those in need of financial, social, and health care support.
What is social welfare.
This term refers to discrimination against persons based solely on being a member of any age group.
What is ageism?
This is the term for the field of practice with older adults.
What is gerontological social work?
Working one-on-one with individuals and families is also known as this level of practice.
What is micro?
Working with groups is also known as this level of practice.
What is mezzo?
These two movements are proclaimed as being responsible for the birth of the social work profession.
What are Charity Organization Society & Settlement House?
These are a society’s system of beliefs, principles, and traditions that guide behaviors and practices.
What are values?
This is the largest area of practice for BSW social workers.
What is working with children and families?
This term refers to recapping or paraphrasing the client’s response.
What is reflection?
This group model aims to collaborate to solve specific problems or issues group members select and agree upon.
What are task groups?
This refers to those who are typically employed, but poverty occurs when the job is only part-time, or does not compensate the employee enough to move above the poverty line, resulting in the individual being marginally poor.
What are the working poor?
This is gaining an understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of cultural differences in order to practice social work more effectively.
What is cultural competence?
This generalist social worker role focuses on voicing the needs of a client system to a larger group or the entire society.
What is an advocate?
This is the process in which the social worker and client collaborate to plan and then execute a series of actions designed to enhance the client’s functioning and well-being.
What is planned change?
This group model is aimed at helping group members enhance their social functioning.
What are remedial or therapeutic groups?
This is the name for the array of social welfare legislation passed in the 1960s under the Johnson administration.
What is The Great Society?
This is when the social worker's values clash with a client, agency, coworker, or society.
What is a value conflict?
This is the process of enabling client systems to enhance their ability to bring about change.
What is the process of empowerment?
This was historically what the method for helping individuals adjust to their situations by identifying needs, goals, and resources was known as.
What is social casework?
This person was the first to engage in large scale social work advocacy in the United States.
Who is Jane Addams?
This is the amount defined by the federal government as the minimal income level at which a family or individual can meet their basic needs.
What is the poverty-line?
This refers to stating the person first then the situation.
What is person first language?
This social work perspective focuses on “possibilities, not problems.”
What is the strengths-based perspective?
This is the process of eliciting information in an open and trusting manner.
What is engagement?
This community practice model focuses on helping communities build their capacity.
What is community development?