This generalist practice model provides a solid preparation for this degree.
What is a Master's of Social Work (MSW).
100
The practice which uses research to guide the social worker in developing knowledge and skills for client system interventions.
What is evidence based practice?
100
Social work practice that focuses on a growing population of older adults.
What is gerontological social work?
100
Working with individuals, couples or families in direct social work practice toward the goal of planned change.
What is micro social work practice?
100
Eliciting information from a client system through asking questions that address feelings.
What is open-ended questions?
200
The premise that the relationship between individuals and their social environment determines a person's life situation.
What is the ecological perspective?
200
A tool for assessing individuals, families, groups, and communities that provides a framework for understanding the interrelationships between members of the system.
What is an ecomap?
200
When a person is thought to be experiencing two diseases or conditions simultaneously.
What is dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorders?
200
Conducting needs assessments, providing information and referrals, and accessing resources.
What is social casework?
200
Paraphrasing the clients response for the purpose of clarifying statements made.
What is reflection?
300
A social work practice approach that recognizes the person and her/his cultural experiences and beliefs as an asset on which to develop a plan for change.
What is the strengths-based perspective?
300
The process of working with a client system to optimize the system's capacity to function and change.
What is empowerment?
300
Social work practice within the legal system.
What is forensic social work?
300
A process in which the social worker and client system work together to develop goals to enhance the functioning and well being of the client system.
What is planned change?
300
The official breaking off of the social worker-client relationship.
What is termination?
400
The social work perspective that perceives each individual as an interactive participant in a larger environmental system.
What is the person in environment perspective?
400
This method guides social work practice by recognizing when a new member of the family enters or leaves the family, a change is produced.
What is the systems theory?
400
Serving individuals and families as an advocate, an educator of policy, and in direct practice in a medical setting.
What is health care or medical social work?
400
A component of the planned change effort in which the social worker establishes rapport with the client system based on trust and respect.
What is engagement?
400
Obtaining of information that will provide the foundation for the plan of intervention.
What is assessment?
500
A theoretical framework for social work practice that enables the social worker and the client system to reconstruct the perception of the current life situation.
What is the solution focused perpective?
500
The application of knowledge and skills that may be derived from multiple theoretical concepts because they are most appropriate to the client system.
What is eclecticism?
500
When a child is physically and/or emotionally injured or sexually abused.
What is child abuse?
500
A component of the planned change effort in which the social worker and the client system develop and implement a plan of action to achieve the mutually agreed upon rules.
What is intervention?
500
Questions that can only be answered by "yes" or "no".