Chapter 4 - Advocacy in Social Work Flashcards
Goods and services (e.g., food, clean water, medical care, shelter, and clothing) needed to support human survival.
Absolute Needs
Rights that can be thought of in a number of realms—personal, civil, and political. Generally, humans should be able to live in a fashion free of persecution, discrimination, and oppression, with access to important societal resources, which often include work, education, health care, and equality before the law.
Basic Human Rights
Strategies used to attain and secure needed benefits or services on an individual-case basis (e.g., for individuals and families).
Case Advocacy
Creating social (structural) change by seeking benefits and services to address the needs of a segment of the population.
Cause Advocacy
Creating social (structural) change by seeking benefits and services to address the needs of a segment of the population.
Cause Advocacy
A principle that dictates that consumers of services make decisions and choices based on their will and value orientations.
Client Self-Determination
All the real, intangible, and unintended ways in which undertaking advocacy can deplete resources and work against the cause; this includes determining the value of each person’s time to engage in research, analyze and draft policies, attend meetings, develop media strategies, lobby, organize communities, campaign, and use technology (e.g., phone calls, text messages, websites, e-mails, blogs, wikis, and social networking sites).
Cost of Advocacy
A conceptualization of advocacy that depicts the ever-changing relationships among four interlocking values: economic and social justice, a supportive environment, human needs and rights, and political access.
Dynamic Advocacy Model
A tenet that can be conceptualized as “promoting and establishing equal liberties, rights, duties, and opportunities in the social institutions (economy, polity, family religion, education, etc.) of a society for all [people]” (Long et al., 2006, p. 208).
Economic and Social Justice
Goods and services that focus on human dignity and well-being, emphasizing what people need (e.g., soap, hygiene products, indoor plumbing, electronic means of communication, and transportation) to address everyday expectations in a given culture or society.
Relative Needs
Efforts aimed at creating social change and advancing the interests and causes of vulnerable and oppressed groups of people (clients and constituents).
Social Action
