Chapter 1 Flashcards
Micro practice
Helping individuals fit better in environment- direct service to individual
Macro practice
Changing environment so it works for individual
social work mission
To enhance human well-being and help meet basic human needs. With attention to needs & empowerment of people oppressed, vulnerable and empoverished
Person in environment
Social workers pay attention to environment in which people live and work to change environment so functions more efficiently
Dual treatment
Help individual with needs and see what’s in environment causing it
General systems theory
Central theoretical framework systems are affected by each other
System
Group of separate individual elements that form a whole
Focal system
Determined by social work point of focus- looking at people in relations to all systems on environment
Ecological system framework
Focus intersection of client systems and the larger environment context .
strengths perspective
Build on client strengths to create positive change
Empowerment
Helping clients gain power over their lives
Diversity perspective
Emphasizes diversity of social workers and clients
Social justice
Challenge social injustice
Social Work ethics
(8)Service, social justice, dignity of worth person, importance of human relationships, integrity, competence, human rights, scientific method
Human rights
Every person entitled to basic human rights: safety, privacy, adequate standard living
Service
To help people in need and address social problems