Child Welfare
What are the different types of child maltreatment?
1. Child physical abuse
2. Child sexual abuse
3. Child neglect
4. Child psychological maltreatment
What are some roles that social workers can have?
Broker
Case Manager
Navigator
Researcher
Counselor
Mediator
How do social workers learn about people experiencing poverty?
They talk to, interact with, and learn from people who are actually in poverty. They can also study poverty in classrooms and textbooks.
Define advocacy and give an example.
"activities that secure services for and promote the rights of individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. Advocacy covers everything from ensuring special educational services for a child with learning disabilities to presenting facts about poverty and needy Americans before the U.S. Congress. Social workers intercede in not only cases but causes" (textbook p. 55)
What do conservatives vs. liberals typically believe about social policy?
Conservatives: personal responsibility, "bootstraps" mentality
Liberals: larger social safety net, more government involvement
What are the characteristics of neglect?
"Failing to meet a child's basic needs." (Miller-Perrin & Perrin, 2009, p. 152). Child neglect can include but is not limited to failing to meet physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs." (textbook p. 424)
What are some examples of low-income assistance programs?
SNAP
TANF
Medicaid
SSI
Section 8 Housing
WIC
Explain the eligibility criteria for Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans.
"To be eligible, women and their children must be at nutritional risk and have income below state standards for measuring need. The majority of Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans provide vouchers that women use at authorized food stores." (textbook p. 214)
What skills are important for crisis social workers?
Do quick assessments to gauge immediate needs.
What is the difference between the "deserving poor" and the "undeserving poor"?
Established by the Elizabethan Poor Laws:
Deserving: Orphans, elderly, people who cannot provide for themselves through no fault of their own
Undeserving: Able-bodied vagrants, drunks, lazy people; people who were perceived as being able to work but choosing not to.
Where can child welfare workers work?
DCS
Family-based services
Foster care agencies
Adoption services
Residential care
Intensive treatment centers
What is evidence based practice (EBP)?
A combination of using clinical experience, research evidence, and client needs or preferences to create informed patient care plans
Explain the difference between Medicaid and Medicare.
Medicare: "When people age beyond 65, they become eligible for Medicare. The U.S. national insurance health care program for everyone older than 65, includes coverage for hospital stays (extended hospital care), home health services, hospice care, and voluntary medical insurance (e.g., doctor's fees, outpatient services)."
(textbook p. 470)
What is intersectionality?
"the entirety of a person's dimensions of difference and social identities. Most diversity includes a complex range or intersection of issues, not simply one. A person may be a poor, old, white, gay, Jewish man who was born with polio and lives in an urban environment. Or a person may be a single, middle-aged, Christian woman who emigrated from India and works as a nurse in a rural setting." (textbook pp. 49-50)
What were the orphan trains?
A form of mutual aid that transported orphaned children from eastern America to all over America, Canada, and Mexico to new families from the 1850s to early 1900s
What is the purpose of the child welfare system?
"The practices and policies, and services put in place to promote child well-being and safety are generally referred to as child welfare. Child welfare includes a complex array of services provided by publicly funded child welfare agencies. Child protective services, programs through which social workers, law enforcement personnel, and health care workers respond to reports of child maltreatment, are a key component in publicly funded child welfare agencies." (textbook p. 241)
What are the six core values in the Code of Ethics
1. Service
2. Social Justice
3. Integrity
4. Competence
5. Dignity and worth of the person
6. Importance of human relationships
What is managed care?
"a type of health care system created to manage, or contain, health care costs. Managed care is offered primarily through the private sector, although Medicaid and Medicare are also forms of managed care." (textbook p. 293)
Ex: HMOs, PPOs
True of False: social workers balance the use of closed- and open-ended questions
TRUE!
What was social insurance?
"Programs to prevent poverty, usually referred to as social insurance - such as Social Security and workers' compensation - were designated to reward work and were funded through payroll deductions." (textbook p. 208)
What are the similarities and differences between child welfare agencies and family service agencies?
"The mission of child welfare agencies is to promote the safety, well-being, and best interests of children. Meanwhile, the mission of family service agencies is to provide programs and services to support and strengthen during challenges and transitions." (textbook p. 247)
What is the difference between generalist social work and clinical social work? What kind of degrees/licenses do you need for each of those roles?
1. Generalist: can do with a BSW, many roles
2. Clinical: MSW, then get supervision/licensure for LCSW, more specific
Explain what employee assistance programs are.
They focus on "Managing conflicts and providing information, referrals, and counseling to people experiencing problems with their physical or mental health" (textbook p. 392)
What is the strengths-based perspective and how do social workers use it?
"The strengths perspective gives credence to the idea that every person has strengths to call on in solving their problems." (textbook p. 129). Social workers use this to build rapport, listen to clients, collaborate with clients, and hold their clients in unconditional positive regard.
What was the effect of the Great Depression on social policy?
It changed what people thought about social welfare. Before this event, they were anti-assistance. But when hard times happened for everyone, this inspired a lot of people to shift their perspectives.