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L7: Professionals and Practitioners in Social Workers Flashcards

1
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Social workers help clients use services from various institutions and organizations.

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Case Manager / Coordinator

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Social workers link client systems, such as individuals, families, groups, and communities to needed resources and services.

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Broker

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Social workers provide guidance to clients and assist them in solving problems and in making life-changing decisions.

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Counselor

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Social workers educate clients to help them gain knowledge and skills to address their problems.

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Educator

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Social workers facilitate group activities and discussions.

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Facilitator

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Social workers help resolve arguments and disagreements among client systems in conflict.

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Mediator

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Social workers identify and organize human, material, technical, and financial resources to help address the needs of their client.

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Mobilizer

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Social workers speak on behalf of their clients to promote fair and equitable treatment or to gain access to resources.

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Advocate

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Empowers clients to resolve problems.

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Enabler

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Foster organizational development.

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Facilitator

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Coordinates program and policy development.

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Planner

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Acts as a mentor and guide for support and professional acculturation.

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Colleague / Mentor

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Acts as an intermediary between individuals and resources.

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Broker

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Assembles groups and organizations for resource development.

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Convenor / Mediator

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Stimulates and energizes social change.

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Activist

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Stimulates interdisciplinary cooperation for resource development.

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Catalyst

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Identify vulnerable population and provides education.

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Teacher

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Instructs or educates through staff development.

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Trainer

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Conveys public information about social issues and social services.

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Outreach Worker

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Engages in discovery for knowledge development.

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Researcher / Scholar

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Defined as the use of professional roles, methods, and skills for implementing planned change in diverse settings.

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Generalist Practice

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Allows social workers to understand their clients from their interactions with the people around them and their environment.

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Systems Approach

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Social workers who come across clients suffering from substance misuse and addictions.

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Substance Misuse and Addictions

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Social workers who deal with issues related to maturity, health and medicine, end of life, family relations and support.

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Aging and Gerontology

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Ensures the safety and well-being of children.

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Child and Family Social Work

26
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Respond to the needs and wants of inmates.

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Justice and Corrections Social Work

27
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Help persons with developmental disabilities and their families to live normally as possible.

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Developmental Disabilities

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Help workers and employees overcome and resolve their issues that affect work.

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Employment and Occupational Social Work

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Often referred to as medical or health social workers.

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Healthcare Social Work

30
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Involved in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders and mental illnesses.

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Mental Health and Clinical Social Work

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Social work is a profession recognized all over the world (Zastrow, 2008).

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International Social Work

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Primarily employed in social welfare agencies.

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Management and Administration

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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.

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Policy and Planning

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The social worker should uphold the primacy of the clients’ well-being and interest.

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Ethical Responsibilities to Client

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Social workers should treat colleagues with respect even when there are differences of opinion.

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Ethical Responsibilities to Colleagues

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Social workers who supervise or consult with other work practitioners should be competent, fair, and respectful in evaluating supervisees.

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Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings

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Social workers should have the necessary competencies to do their job.

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Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals

38
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Social workers should maintain and advance the values, ethics, knowledge, and mission of social work.

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Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession

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Social workers should advance the general well-being of society and the development of people and communities.

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Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society

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