Social Work Basics
The support of each individual's right to make their own decisions through an informed evaluation process of resources, alternatives, and consequences.
What is self-determination?
Professional standards guiding professional behaviors for social workers.
What is the Code of Ethics?
or
What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
The implementation of a social welfare policy.
What is a social welfare program?
The vast range and variety of differences characterizing people.
What is diversity?
Organizational and community settings
What are macro systems?
A focus on the client's innate abilities and resources to overcome barriers resulting in empowerment and resisting a problem-centered approach.
What is strengths perspective?
Service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence.
What are the six core values of social work?
The concept that women as a group are more likely to be poor than men.
What is feminization of poverty?
The act of treating people differently based on them belonging to some group rather than on merit.
What is discrimination?
The condition of having less power and being viewed as less important than others in the society because of belonging to some group or having some characteristic.
What is marginalization?
The ideal of all citizens with identical rights, protection, opportunities, obligations, and social benefits.
What is social justice?
The principle that social workers should not share information provided by a client or about a client without explicit permission.
What is confidentiality?
The application of knowledge, skills, and values to target change at micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
What is Generalist Practice?
A way of life that encompasses values, beliefs, and behavior that is passed on from generation to generation within a group of people
What is culture?
The concept that people are complex and can belong to multiple, overlapping diverse groups.
What is intersectionality?
Broker, advocate, mediator, facilitator, educator, mobilizer, case manager, and negotiator to name a few.
What are professional roles of a social worker?
Maintaining trustworthiness and sound adherence to moral ideals.
What is integrity?
The application of critical thinking skills to a problem solving process with systems of various sizes.
What is planned change?
Effective communication, understanding, and interaction with people across cultures.
What is cultural competence?
Extreme limitations or constraints placed on some person, group, or larger system.
What is oppression?
The active integration of current best evidence from external research into social work practice balanced with professional values and client expectations.
What is evidenced based practice?
Having the necessary skills and abilities to work effectively with clients.
What is competence?
A process where by information is gathered, analyzed, and synthesized to provide an honest picture of the client along with the client's needs and strengths.
What is assessment?
(of the planned change process)
The process of global integration in which diverse peoples, economies, cultures, and political processes are increasingly subject to international influences.
What is globalization?
Stressful and traumatic life events including abuse and neglect occurring in childhood and placing the individual at risk in multiple ways.
What are ACEs?
or
What are adverse childhood experiences?