History of Social Work
This policy of old delineated categories for social welfare assistance, such as the worthy and non-deserving poor.
What was the Elizabethan Poor Law?
This approach assumes every client has identifiable, positive attributes, and assets that can be employed to overcome difficulties, and effectively cope with problems of living.
What is the strength-based approach or perspective?
A nation’s system of programs, benefits, and services that helps meet the society’s social, economic, education and health needs.
What is the social welfare system?
The grand challenges for social work was funded by the Bill Gates foundation.
True or False.
A social worker that pushes for the rights and dignity on behalf of a client.
What is an advocate?
She was the first woman in the US to receive the Nobel peace prize.
Who was SW Jane Adams?
This umbrella framework is used to understand both social welfare problems and individual needs, and to guide interventions.
What is the ecological systems perspective?
The limits developed that allow for supportive connections based on the clients needs, and to ensure that relationships remain professional.
What are (professional) boundaries?
There are 12 grand challenges for social work.
True or false?
A social worker who links client systems with existing resources.
What is a broker?
Patterned after Toynbee Hall in London, Hull House in Chicago was one of the first in the United States.
What is a settlement house?
DAILY DOUBLE
This approach posits that clients know the most about their problems and needs, and with assistance and support can work out their own solutions.
What is client centeredness? Or client-centered perspective?
Persistent, compulsive, physical, or psychological dependence on a behavior or substance.
What is an addiction?
The three divisions of grand challenges include:creating a just society, improving individual and family well-being, and creating a stronger social fabric.
True or False.
A social worker who brings together groups and help them use their talents and resources to create positive change.
What is a facilitator?
The first black mutual aid society formed in Newport, Rhode Island, by free blacks in 1780.
What is the Free African Union society?
The concept and process of increasing our client’s personal, interpersonal and political power so that they act to improve their situation.
What is the empowerment perspective?
A hallmark of systems therapy that holds there are many different ways to arrive at a solution.
What is a equifinality?
Two of the challenges include eliminating racism and reducing economic equality.
True or false
A social workers whose main task is to convey information and knowledge with the goal of developing client skills.
What is a social work educator?
A major contributor to the Charity Organization Society, considered by many to be the founder of clinical social work and casework.
Who is Mary Richmond?
This approach seeks to understand human behavior by taking into account cultural norms, values and practices.
What is the cultural perspective?
A component of the planned change model in which a social worker establishes rapport with the client system based on respect and trust.
What is engagement?
Environmental challenges pose profound risks to human well-being. One of the grand challenges is to create a social response to a changing environment.
True or false
A social worker who assembles, energizes and organizes new or existing groups.
What is a mobilizer or community organizer?