SW Values/Ethics
This NASW value is most directly connected to advocacy work.
What is social justice?
Advocating with clients rather than for them reflects this core social work principle.
What is client empowerment?
Advocating with clients rather than for them reflects this core social work principle.
What is client empowerment?
This movement focused on settlement houses and community reform.
What is the Settlement House Movement?
This federal program provides health insurance primarily to individuals age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
The NASW identifies this number of core social work values.
What is six?
PIE stands for this assessment framework.
What is Person-In-Environment?
When a social worker helps a client appeal a denied benefit, they are practicing this type of advocacy.
What is case (or micro) advocacy?
She wrote Social Diagnosis and formalized casework practice.
Who is Mary Richmond?
This 1935 legislation was a response to the elderly losing their retirement during the Great Depression.
What is Social Security?
This value calls social workers to prioritize helping people in need and addressing social problems.
What is service?
PIE reflects social work’s commitment to understanding individuals within this broader framework.
What is their social environment?
When social workers lobby for changes in housing laws, they are engaging in this level of practice.
What is macro advocacy?
his organization used “friendly visitors” to investigate and assist poor families.
What is the Charity Organization Society (COS)?
Programs require proof of financial need in order to qualify.
What is means testing?
Treating each person in a caring and respectful fashion reflects this value.
What is dignity and worth of the person?
This perspective focuses on clients’ abilities, resources, and resilience rather than deficits.
What is the strengths perspective?
This civil rights leader focused on racial justice and women’s rights and led the National Council of Negro Women for decades.
Who is Dorothy Height?
This early social reformer believed in living among the poor to better understand and advocate for systemic change.
Who is Jane Addams?
A criticism of social welfare policy.
This process ensures clients understand services, risks, and their rights before agreeing to treatment.
What is informed consent?
Turning “stubborn” into “persistent” is an example of this clinical skill.
What is reframing?
A major limitation of the “individual reigns supreme” perspective is that it may overlook this factor influencing people’s lives.
What are structural or systemic barriers?
This 19th-century reformer advocated for humane treatment of people with mental illness.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The shift from AFDC to TANF in 1996 emphasized this requirement for recipients.
What is work participation (or work requirements)?