History of Social Work Profession

Question 1

what is social work?

Answer 1

practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people

Question 2

when did Bill 9- The Social Work Profession Act receive Royal Assent and become law?

Answer 2

April 27, 2017

Question 3

What are the professional attributes?

Answer 3

• systemic body of theory
• professional authority
• difference between a customer and a client
• sanction of the community
• regulative code of ethics

Question 4

What is professional identity?

Answer 4

How a social worker thinks of themselves; often defined as a practitioner’s professional self-concept based on attributes,m beliefs, values, motives, and experiences

Question 5

what are the 3 qualities of a healthy social identity?

Answer 5

• connectedness
• expansiveness
• effectiveness

Question 6

what is a technical-rational approach?

Answer 6

associated with procedural knowledge and a technical application of values and skills

Question 7

what is a reflexive practice?

Answer 7

complexity and uncertainty of practice is understood and appreciated

Question 8

why is field education a signature course in social work?

Answer 8

prepares students for the profession’s ways of thinking, performing, and acting

Question 9

how do you work with a technical-rational and reflexive approach?

Answer 9

extract the strengths of each to get a multi-dimensional view

Question 10

what are meta-competencies?

Answer 10

overarching abilities that allow a social worker to adapt and anticipate responses to unique circumstances and situations; developed through continuous learning and reflection

Question 11

what are some examples of meta-competencies in social work?

Answer 11

• critical thinking
• respecting diversity and difference
• applying knowledge of human development and behaviour
• advocating for human rights and social justice
• reflexive practice

Question 12

what is Gibbs’ 1998 reflective cycle?

Answer 12

description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, action plan

Question 13

what does understanding the self involve?

Answer 13

heightened awareness of one’s social location, positionality, and intersectionality

Question 14

what partially distinguishes social workers from other professions?

Answer 14

the use of self

Question 15

how did social work emerge in the mid-1800s?

Answer 15

response to the underprivileged through chairty work that’s based in Christian morality

Question 16

how was social work present during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 16

social agencies filled gaps caused in formerly stable social institutions as a result of urbanization

Question 17

what are some milestones within the social work profession?

Answer 17

• The Charity Organization Society movement
• the Settlement Hosue movement
• the Cooperative movement
• the Social Gospel Movement
• Child Welfare Services

Question 18

who is Mary Richmond?

Answer 18

-wrote the first book on social casework, identified it as the technique that’s unique to social work
- established currently accepted principle that when social institutions are unable to provide needed services, personal helping should be the responsibility of professionals

Question 19

what is the Elizabethan Poor Law?

Answer 19

gave local authorities responsibility for the care of the poor

Question 20

what is social gospel?

Answer 20

form of Christian socialism that saw issues of society as a result of flaws in social institutions

Question 21

what is the significance of JS Woodsworth?

Answer 21

• associated with the social gospel movement
• instrumental in forming Canadian social and health insurance programs
• founder of predecessor to NDP

Question 22

what is critical theory?

Answer 22

views issues in the context of oppression and injustice