Social Work Education
Taking action to alleviate one's own stress.
What is self-care?
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 everyone the same.
What is Equality?
The ability to clearly understand one's own strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, and beliefs.
What is self-awareness?
Writing grants for the city of long beach to change policies and programs.
What is Macro level social work practice?
Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work or Doctorate of/in Social Work
What are the different degree levels of professional social work?
A perspective focused on people and their environments, looking at the physical and social settings where a person experiences life situations.
What is ecological perspective?
Giving everyone what they need to be successful.
What is Equity?
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a person or group.
What is privilege?
Working as an out-patient program therapist, doing individual and group therapy services for adolescents.
What is Micro level social work practice?
The membership organization that works to enhance social work professional growth through guidance, research, standards and resources.
What is the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)?
Engage in purposeful actions to help people advance their rights, opportunities, causes, and human dignity.
What is advocate?
Being without basic needs or resources such as money and all that it buys—food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care.
What is poverty?
Emotional exhaustion, resulting in a decreased sense of personal accomplishment.
What is burnout?
Managing a food-bank community program, overseeing volunteers and participants.
What is mezzo level practice?
Guide of values, standards, and ethics for professional social workers to follow.
What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
Being humble and open to learning about anothers culture, not assuming you understand, but instead being curious.
What is cultural humility?
The governmental programs and services designed to maintain the stability and well-being of society.
What is social welfare?
General beliefs or perceptions about members of a specific group of people.
What are stereotypes?
"direct social work" practice referencing face to face contact with clients to support or strengthen them as people
What is Micro level practice?
The professional entity that accredits social work college education programs by monitoring social work educators and ensuring high educational standards.
What is the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)?
Perspective of viewing people as constantly interacting with their environment, it highlights how people are affected in positive and negative ways by their surroundings.
What is the "Person-In-Environment" Perspective ?
The calculations used by social welfare agencies and programs to determine a person's eligibility for benefits and services.
What is "means testing?"
What is 'Vicarious Trauma?'
"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?