Social Work Values
The safeguarding of the information that passes between the social workers and the client
What is confidentiality?
What is the belief that clients have the right to make their own decisions?
What is self-determination?
Developing and enhancing professional expertise.
What is Competency?
these social workers serve on the staff of schools, hospitals, community centers, and prisons.
What is mezzo level practice?
A comprehensive, multidimensional approach. Commonly known as the "undergraduate level social worker," prepared to work with micro, mezzo and macro levels of practice.
What are generalist social workers?
Treating all people with respect.
What is dignity and worth of the person?
The different levels of social work practice
What is Micro, Mezzo, and Macro?
Someone who fights for the rights of others or fights to obtain needed resources
What is Integrity?
Managing a food-bank community program, overseeing volunteers and participants.
What is mezzo level practice?
This is hands-on experience that is given to prospective social workers when seeking education in their field.
What is field experience?
This serves as a guide to the everyday professional behaviors and standards for the field of social work
What is the NASW Social Work Code of Ethics
a useful framework for understanding the range of factors that influence health and well-being
What is Ecological perspective?
A system of beliefs that guide your behaviors.
What are values?
"Indirect Social Work" engaging with large systems to create environmental change for the alleviation of widespread suffering and social problems
What is Macro level practice?
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a person or group.
What is privilege?
social worker's sharing of personal information with a client system?
what is Self-disclosure?
When people are seen as part of and interacting with their environment with the habit of mind. This is how people are affected in positive and negative ways by their surroundings.
What is person-in-environment perspective?
this value is based on the principle that social worker's primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems.
What is Service?
changing, negating, or repairing large-scale systemic issues that affect large groups of people or entire communities and cultures.
What is Macro level social work practice?
Which organization accredits social work degrees in the United States?
What is Council on Social Work Education?
self-determination, empowerment, confidentiality, worth, dignity
What are the social work ethical principles?
The entirety of a person's dimensions of difference and social identities. Where issues or needs may intersect.
What is intersectionality?
This value is based on the principle that social workers challenge social injustice.
What is social justice?
This is the most common type of social work and involves direct interaction with clients to address individual problems.
What is Micro level social work practice?
Systematic research based on data gathered from interviews and field study with individuals, families, groups, organizations, or communities.
What is qualitative research?