Social Work Perspectives
This perspective views the individual within the context of the environment.
What is the Person in Environment Perspective?
In this field, you might work at a family service agency, public child welfare agency, or elementary and secondary schools.
What are child welfare services?
The process of establishing the beginnings of a working relationship with a client.
What is engagement?
This principle of MI requires you to develop the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is expression of empathy?
This role aids client's in obtaining needed resources.
What is a broker?
This perspective helps social workers understand the meaning of interactions between client systems and their environment.
What is the ecological perspective?
Social workers often work directly with older clients and their families in agencies such as residential care, hospice, and home health care.
What is gerontological social work?
The professional activity the social worker conducts with the client to provide the basis for understanding the client's situation and planning the intervention.
What is assessment?
This principle enables the client to see that his/her present situation does not necessarily fit into his/her values and what he/she would like in the future.
What is developing discrepancy?
The perspective that helps the social worker and client work together to identify the client system's strengths.
What is the strengths-based and empowerment perspective?
Social workers work with individuals who have neurocognitive, physical and psychiatric limitations.
What is the practice of working with people with disabilities?
You need to have a balance of both these types of questions.
What are open and closes ended questions?
This principle prevents a breakdown in communication between client and provider (avoids arguments) and allows the client to explore his/her views.
What is "rolling with resistance"?
In this role, the social worker engages in direct practice with individuals and families.
What is a direct service provider?
In this perspective, the social worker helps clients reconstruct the ways in which they view their situation to envision possible solutions.
What is the solution-focused perspective?
Social workers provide services in both outpatient and inpatient settings to assist people with psychiatric needs.
What are mental health services?
In this phase, the social worker uses the information gathered to prioritize the client's needs and mobilize the client's strengths and resources to facilitate the desired change.
What is the intervention phase?
This principle allows clients to believe in the possibility of change and puts the responsibility on the client for responsibility for choosing and carrying out change.
What is supporting self-efficacy?
In this role, the social worker mobilizes the client system to achieve mutually-determined needs.
What is a case manager?
These can be entities made up of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities-from local to global and this is a tool for assessing the interrelationships between members.
What are systems and an ecomap?
Services include prevention, treatment, relapse prevention, drug courts, and therapeutic communities.
What is substance abuse and addiction practice?
The official ending of the social worker-client relationship.
What is the termination phase?
This is a strengths-based, "person-centered" counseling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
In this role, the social worker mobilizes resources to meet the needs of a client system.
What is an organizer?