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What are competencies?

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Basic capabilities involving social work knowledge, skills, and values that can be demonstrated and measured by component behavior.

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Name four examples of organizations.

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Schools, churches, businesses, and universities.

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What is micro practice?

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Practice that focuses on interventions with individuals that help them solve their problems.

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What are economic forces?

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The available resources, how they are directed, and how they’re spent.

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What is a subsystem?

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A secondary or subordinate system that may be viewed as a smaller system within a larger system.

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What is homeostasis?

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The tendency for a system to maintain a relatively stable constant state of balance.

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What is a role?

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Culturally expected behavior patterns for a person having a specified status or involvement in designated social relationships.

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What is the CSWE in charge of?

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Accrediting social work programs and requiring that students apply knowledge of human behavior, social involvement, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary frameworks.

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What is a community?

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A group of people who have something in common that connects them in some way while distinguishing them from others.

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What are social forces?

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Values and beliefs held by people in the social environment that are strong enough to influence their activities including how government is structured and restricted.

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What are political forces?

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The current governmental structures, the law to which people are subject to, and the overall distribution of power among the population.

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What is a social institution?

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An established and valued practice in a society resulting in the development of a formalized system to carry out its purpose.

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What is a system?

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A set of elements that are orderly, interrelated, and a functional whole.

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What is the heart of the ecosystems perspective?

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The person in environment concept, which views individuals and their environments as an interrelated whole.

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What is a relationship?

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The dynamic interpersonal connection between two or more persons or systems that involve how they think about, feel about, and behave towards each other.

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What is input?

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The energy, information, or communication flow received from other systems.

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What is feedback?

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A special form of input where a system receives information about that system’s own performance.

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What is entropy?

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A natural tendency of a system to progress towards disorganization, depletion, and death.

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What is interface?

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The point where two systems come in contact with each other and interact or communicate.

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What does the ecological perspective do?

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Emphasizes the dynamic between people and their environment.

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What is energy?

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The natural power of active involvement between people and their environment.

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What is positive feedback?

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Informational input a system receives about itself to maintain itself and thrive.

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What is differentiation?

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A system tendency to move from simple to a more complex existence.

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What is equifinality?

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A notion that many different means exist to achieve the same outcome.

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What is stress?
A resulting psychological and/or emotional tension produced by a stressor that affects the person's internal balance.
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What is coping?
The adaptation to stress that people use to reduce stressors in some way.
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What is adaptation?
The capacity to adjust to surrounding environmental conditions.
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What is a niche?
A specific social position that a person upholds within the habitat's social structure.
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What is relatedness?
The ability to connect to other people, groups, and organizations.
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What is a habitat?
A specific setting in which we live and work.
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Name seven different social worker roles.
Mediator, advocate, manager, educator, coordinator, integrator, and evaluator.
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Who links a system of any size with community resources and services?
Broker
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Who guides a group experience?
Facilitator
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Who calls attention to an issue?
Initiator
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Who identifies and convenes community people and resources and makes them responsive to unmet community means?
Mobilizer
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What is critical thinking?
Concentration on the process of reasoning, how clients analyze an issue to formulate their own conclusion.
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What is the purpose of a mission?
To enhance human wellbeing and help meet the basic needs of all people.
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Name the six values of the code of ethics.
Service, social justice, dignity and worth of a person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competencel
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What is human diversity?
The vast array of differences among human beings, including gender, ethnicity, values, culture, spiritual/religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and both mental and physical health.
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What are gender roles?
Culturally defined behavior that are seen as appropriate for male and female.
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What is gender identity?
The way people view themselves as being male or female, or a combination of both.
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What is gender role socialization?
The process of conveying what is considered appropriate behavior and respective for males and females in a culture.
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What is culture?
Customs and ways of doing things that defines what we think is good or bad, true or false, and influences what we do on a daily basis.
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What is organizational culture?
The set of key values, beliefs, understandings, and norms shared by members of an organization.
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What is cultural competency?
The mastery of a particular set of knowledge, skills, policy, and programs used by the social worker that addresses the culture needs of individuals, families, groups, and communities.
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What is empowerment?
The assurance that others have the power, ability, and authority to achieve self-determination.
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What is resilience?
The ability of an individual, family, or group to recover from adversity and resume functioning.
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What is advocacy?
An act of stepping forward on behalf of a client system to obtain fair and equitable treatment or regain resources.
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What are human rights?
Rights people are entitled to regardless of race, culture, or national origin.
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When does social justice exist?
When every individual has opportunities equal to those of all members of a society.
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What is economic justice?
Justice concerned with the distribution of resources in an equitable manner.
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What is environmental law?
The state of being in which all people are treated fairly and establishment and the enforcement of environmental policy/law.
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What is oppression?
Extreme restriction and restraint on a larger group/system.
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What is power?
The ability to move people on a chosen course to produce an effect or achieve some goals.
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What is privilege?
Special rights or benefits endured because of elevated social or economic status.
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What is acclaim?
Enthusiastic public praise.
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What is marginalization?
The condition of having less power and being viewed as less important than others in society bc of belonging to a group/having characteristics.
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What is alienation?
Occurs when a person does not feel part of the larger group in society. Related to marginalization.
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What is poverty?
The lack of money or material goods available to other members of society.
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What is an example of ENGAGEMENT?
Building rapport.
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What is an example of ASSESSMENT?
Collecting data/intake.
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What is an example of PLANNING?
Identifying achievable goals and ways to implement them.
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What is an example of INTERVENTION?
Implementing of a plan.
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What is an example of EVALUATION?
Assessing progress.
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What is an example of TERMINATION?
Concluding services.
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What is an example of FOLLOW-UP?
Analyzing whether or not intervention was successful.

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