Roles of a Social Worker
Conducting client assessments, implementing treatment plans, coordinating services, supporting clients, and follow up and monitoring or services.
What is the Social Work Case Manager?
A combination of multiple theories and frameworks.
What is Generalist Perspective?
This model focuses on breaking down the problem into small tasks that the client can accomplish. The social worker may use rehearsal, deadlines, and contracts, in order to help the client feel successful and motivated towards solving the problem.
Task Centered Model
When you begin the relationship with the clients, in this stage you will identify and define the client's problems and determine their eligibility for service.
Intake and Engagement
Creating, extending or improving resources. May include lobbying.
What is the Social Worker as a Social Change Agent?
Challenges the belief systems and societal structures that give rise to the oppression and exploitation of women.
What is Feminist Perspective?
Future focused, goal directed, and assumes that all clients have some knowledge of what would make their life better.
What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy?
A person, and their interactions with their environments, is also known as what?
PIE
Using modeling, values clarification and behavior modification to help clients become more effective.
What is the Social Worker as Teacher?
To identify and build on a clients' strengths.
What is the Strengths Perspective?
Helps clients to understand their emotions and unconscious patterns of behavior.
What is psychodynamic theory?
The three levels of social work practice.
Micro, Mezzo, Macro
Monitor and evaluate agency programs by collecting data via individualized and standardized tools.
What is the Social Worker as a researcher?
Understanding that clients are affected by a combination of conditions and circumstances and function as a whole composed of interrelated and interconnected parts.
What is Ecosystems Perspective?
This is the leading evidence based practice treatment that comes in many variations.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
You and the client come up with a plan. In this phase, you will Carry out the plan; review progress; revise the plan if it is not achieving the desired results.
Intervention and Monitoring
Ensuring clients receive resources.
What is the Social Worker as an Advocate?
People are shaped by their backgrounds and life experiences, factors such as the client's ethnicity, culture, religion, and socio-economic status will influence thoughts, behaviors, and values.
Ethnic Sensitive Perspective
Behavior is determined by the interaction between an individual and their traits, and their environment; high emphasis placed on building and maintaining the relationship between and worker and client.
Interactional Model
Summarizes overall progress; brings the relationship to an end; gives feedback to the agency about how services and programs might be improved.
Final Evaluation and Termination