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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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social welfare

  • definition
  • includes governmental (3)
  • allocation of resources
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system used for helping people who are displaced (safety net)

  • programs, services, institutions
  • money, personnel, expertise
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examples of governmental

  • programs
  • services
  • institutions
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  • meals on wheels, big brother
  • adult edu
  • children and youth bureau
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what impacts how a person thinks about policy issues

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political, social, religious and economic ideologies

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public assistance

  • paid for by
  • ex
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  • government tax

- medicaid

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social insurance

  • paid for by
  • ex
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  • trusts not taxes

- medicaire, SS, unemployment insurance

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means testing

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A method for determining whether someone qualifies for a financial-assistance program

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conservatives ideologies

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  1. people at top have worked hard, earned their success

2. people in distress have caused their own problems and should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps

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liberals ideologies

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  1. support a more robust safety net for poor people
  2. support social intervention and change
  3. want to distribute resources to poor
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social justice

  • 3 things about what they do
  • goals of advocacy (5)
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    1. protect human rights
      1. provide basic human needs
      2. motivates social workers to be advocates
    1. fairness
      1. equality
      2. freedom
      3. service
      4. nonviolence
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mutual aid

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community’s responsibility
-Refers to the cooperative ( as opposed in competitive) factors operating in a society involving the voluntary exchange of resource and service for mutual benefit

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poor laws of colonial america

  • similar to
  • 2 categories
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  • Elizabethan poor laws

- deserving and non deserving poor

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charity organization societies

  • definition
  • women associated
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  • individual factors related to poverty, friendly visitors
  • improve organizations of social services
  • mary richmond, jane addams formed Hull house
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mary richmond

  • associated in which COS
  • wrote first social book in
  • introduced
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  • baltimore/philadephia COS
  • 1917 - social diagnosis
  • methodology, common body of knowledge
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goal of a generalist practice

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address problematic interaction between person’s and their environment

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Elizabethan Laws

  • definition
  • deserving poor
  • undeserving poor
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gov decided that poor people need to be addressed by the community

  • children, widows, senior citizens and disabled
  • people who could work but don’t
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self determination

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The right of people groups, and communities to make choice, design a course of action, and live as independently as possible- is stressed repeatedly

17
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ethnocentrism

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Occurs when people believe their ethnic group and way of life are superior to others

18
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what coursework do generalists take?

  • foundation of
  • 6 basic course
  • additional courses
  • additional concepts
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-Liberal arts foundation (sociology, psychology, biology, economics, political science, statistics)
-Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Social Work Research
Social Policy
Social Work Methods or Practice
Field Education
Electives
-Social work core values
Self-determination
Critical thinking

19
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absolute poverty

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household income compared to nation’s income

20
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relative poverty

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when people are poor relative to those around them

21
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  • What programs were part of the Social Security Act in 1935?
  • what was added to it later in the 1960s?
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  • social security and medicare

- food stamps, medicaid, headstart

22
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What are the 5 steps involved in the social work change process?

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  1. engagement
  2. assessment
  3. planning
  4. implementation
  5. evaluation
23
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income

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the amount of money that a person received in return for his services.

24
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wealth

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the net worth of a person, the total value of his assets minus his liabilities.

25
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social work roles

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  1. advocate
  2. broker
  3. case manager
  4. counselor
  5. mediator
  6. navigator
  7. researcher
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advocate

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someone who speaks up for disempowered people

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broker

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connects ind. to needed resources or services

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case manager

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takes responsibility for coordinating things that is going on in his/her life

29
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counselor

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uses one on one talk therapy to help create a rap-ore and relationship to help people with problems in life

30
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mediator

  • definition
  • ex
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gets involved in situations of conflict

-child custody, impartial reference

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navigator

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helps clients navigate through paperwork

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researcher

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develops new knowledge of info to help people down the road

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engagement

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forming relationship to elicit response from client

34
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assessment

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takes a long look at persons life and try to come up with diagnosis

35
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implementation

A

carry out plan you created

36
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feminiztion of poverty

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  • 77 cents on the male dollar
  • Single & divorced mothers are more likely to be in poverty because they’re more likely to be responsible for children
37
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patterns of income distribution and wealth disparity and the US

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  • Wealth more unequal than income

- Majority of wealth owned by about 10% of the population

38
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groups at risk of being poor

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women, people of color, children, homeless people

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