Chapter 5
A professional social worker is able to provide psychotherapy after completing which minimum level of education and securing a license to practice clinical social work?
What is MSW (Master of Social Work)?
This agency/department/organization is often described as the “work horse” of the public health system
What are local health departments?
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1997 required schools to provide each child in special education with this
What is an IEP (individualized education plan)?
This organization categorized alcoholism as a disease in 1956, thus making it a treatable illness
What is the American Medical Association?
This term refers to the coordination of care
What is case management?
Core social work value that requires social workers to build knowledge and sensitivity to diversity
What is competence?
One of the first social work specialty groups to organize professionally
What are health care social workers?
Schools are an example of a _______________________ where social work functions may be superseded by the primary purpose of educating students.
What is a secondary social work setting?
A condition where abnormalities in children are the result of alcohol consumption while in utero
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
Social workers are encouraged to use this approach when working with clients.
What is empowerment?
This term refers to the identification of a person by name and life experience, rather than a diagnostic label.
What is people-first language?
This is one prominent measure traditionally used to evaluate a health system’s performance internationally
What is life expectancy?
A school may use this tool to identify after school program resources
What is a community assessment?
This widely-popular substance was added to the DSM5-TR as potential source of intoxication and withdrawal
What is caffeine?
What is Social Security?
This act was the first major piece of mental health legislation passed by the U.S. government
What is the National Mental Health Act?
The largest U.S. financial aid program for low-income people
What is Medicaid?
Conducting group counseling sessions in school for children who are dealing with a recent divorce is an example of this
What is group work?
This age group is especially vulnerable to use of inhalants to "get high"
What is youth ages 10-17?
This group of older adults is most likely to be married (or remarried) during their later years?
Who are older men?
One of the first pieces of social research ever conducted in the United States (Wilson, 1975) was the 1843 report on the status of the mentally ill in Massachusetts prepared by _________
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The majority of health care social workers today are employed in what kind of care
What is acute care?
This act passed in 2010 provided funds to build school-based health services and community health initiatives.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This substance is recognized as the most abused in the U.S.
What is alcohol?
More than half of elder abuse cases are the result of which group perpetrating the abuse
Who are family members?