L7: Professionals and Practitioners in Social Workers Flashcards
Social workers help clients use services from various institutions and organizations.
Case Manager / Coordinator
Social workers link client systems, such as individuals, families, groups, and communities to needed resources and services.
Broker
Social workers provide guidance to clients and assist them in solving problems and in making life-changing decisions.
Counselor
Social workers educate clients to help them gain knowledge and skills to address their problems.
Educator
Social workers facilitate group activities and discussions.
Facilitator
Social workers help resolve arguments and disagreements among client systems in conflict.
Mediator
Social workers identify and organize human, material, technical, and financial resources to help address the needs of their client.
Mobilizer
Social workers speak on behalf of their clients to promote fair and equitable treatment or to gain access to resources.
Advocate
Empowers clients to resolve problems.
Enabler
Foster organizational development.
Facilitator
Coordinates program and policy development.
Planner
Acts as a mentor and guide for support and professional acculturation.
Colleague / Mentor
Acts as an intermediary between individuals and resources.
Broker
Assembles groups and organizations for resource development.
Convenor / Mediator
Stimulates and energizes social change.
Activist
Stimulates interdisciplinary cooperation for resource development.
Catalyst
Identify vulnerable population and provides education.
Teacher
Instructs or educates through staff development.
Trainer
Conveys public information about social issues and social services.
Outreach Worker
Engages in discovery for knowledge development.
Researcher / Scholar
Defined as the use of professional roles, methods, and skills for implementing planned change in diverse settings.
Generalist Practice
Allows social workers to understand their clients from their interactions with the people around them and their environment.
Systems Approach
Social workers who come across clients suffering from substance misuse and addictions.
Substance Misuse and Addictions
Social workers who deal with issues related to maturity, health and medicine, end of life, family relations and support.
Aging and Gerontology
Ensures the safety and well-being of children.
Child and Family Social Work
Respond to the needs and wants of inmates.
Justice and Corrections Social Work
Help persons with developmental disabilities and their families to live normally as possible.
Developmental Disabilities
Help workers and employees overcome and resolve their issues that affect work.
Employment and Occupational Social Work
Often referred to as medical or health social workers.
Healthcare Social Work
Involved in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders and mental illnesses.
Mental Health and Clinical Social Work
Social work is a profession recognized all over the world (Zastrow, 2008).
International Social Work
Primarily employed in social welfare agencies.
Management and Administration
Improving systems to be better and address the clients’ problems, such as child abuse, homelessness, and substance abuse, by proposing legislation, conducting research, and suggesting new approaches and programs.
Policy and Planning
The social worker should uphold the primacy of the clients’ well-being and interest.
Ethical Responsibilities to Client
Social workers should treat colleagues with respect even when there are differences of opinion.
Ethical Responsibilities to Colleagues
Social workers who supervise or consult with other work practitioners should be competent, fair, and respectful in evaluating supervisees.
Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings
Social workers should have the necessary competencies to do their job.
Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals
Social workers should maintain and advance the values, ethics, knowledge, and mission of social work.
Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession
Social workers should advance the general well-being of society and the development of people and communities.
Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society
