CHAPTER 1
Individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
What are the levels of intervention in social work?
This is the belief that one group, or specific characteristics of one group, are superior to others
What is prejudice?
This program lifts more children and families out of poverty today than any other federal program
What is the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)?
This organization has been crucial to the survival of millions experiencing food insecurity, especially in developing countries.
What is the United Nations?
This social work approach is based upon empowering the client
What is the strengths-based approach?
This part of the NASW Code of Ethics includes the core values of the profession.
What is the preamble?
This is the negative behavior toward groups of people believed to be inferior because of prejudice.
What is discrimination?
This is the maximum time frame to receive TANF benefits
What is five years?
This is the wealthiest nation in the world, yet it offers the poorest welfare benefits
What is the United States?
Service, Importance of Human Relationships, Dignity and Worth of the Person, Competence, Integrity, and Social Justice
What are the six Core Social Work Values?
This approach is informed by the ecological systems theory
What is the generalist approach?
This group of people are at a higher risk to experience poverty in later life
Who are older women?
These are two features of the settlement house movement
What are self-help and mutual aid?
This program does not offer financial assistance for childcare
What is TANF?
Micro, Mezzo, Macro
What are the levels of social work practice?
This professional organization is responsible to set forth the educational policy and accreditation standards for social work programs
What is the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)?
This form of government is the opposite of democracy
What is totalitarianism?
This legislation required every person to be enrolled as a resident in a parish across England
What is the Settlement Act of 1662?
This national conference used to meet every 10 years until the Reagan administration stopped the tradition.
1909 White House Conference on Children
This was a movement in the 1800s that transported orphaned and abandoned children in New York to the West.
What is the Orphan Train Movement?
This level of regulation in the U.S. legally restricts the practice of social work to persons who meet the individual state requirements
What is licensure?
This federal legislation was the first to bar discrimination in the U.S., carrying with it the power of the courts
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This social work pioneer worked alongside Jane Addams and helped establish the South Side Community Service in Chicago
Who is Ada S. McKinley?
This program allows employees to take time off work in certain circumstances, but it is an unpaid leave.
What is FMLA?
When you interact with policy makers to try and influence their policy decisions on particular proposals.
What is advocacy?