Quiz Flashcards
In comparison to micro practice, macro practice is a _________ intervention designed to bring about planned change in organizations and communities.
professionally-guided
_________ social work practice are interconnected: it is as important for social workers to understand the nature of individual and groups interventions as it is to understand the nature or organizational, community, and policy change.
Micro and macro
Name one social condition underlying the emergence of the social work roles, that eventually brought about recognition of the need for macro-level responses?
Immigration, industrialization, urbanization, change in institutional structures.
The common settings or arenas in which policies and practices of macro-systems are the target for macro-level change include communities and ______________.
organizations
With respect to understanding the problems and opportunities, addressed for community intervention, the _____________ proceed with a set of tasks designed to gather as much information about the problem as is available.
change agents
To be defined as a problem, a condition must in some way be ______________ and incorporated into the action agenda of a group, organization, or community.
formally recognized
Exploring the professional ____________ constitutes a challenge and task to the change agent to become as much of an expert on the condition, problem, need, or opportunity as possible.
knowledge base
Name one system of oppression which macro social work practice often addresses?
Albeism, ageism, classism, heterosexism, racism, and sexism.
In conducting community needs assessments, an evaluation of the availability of ___________ for a target population is an essential component of the assessment.
basic resources
A major reason(s) for bringing about change in human service organizations through community intervention is that many organizations have become: unresponsiveness in meeting the ___________.
public need
A major aim of community organization and intervention in social work is to ____________ as formally recognized problems.
legitimize conditions
The __________________ of a human service organization often serve as the rationale for macro social workers to engage in planned-guided change because they set the foundation for programs and services accessed by the client system or population.
policies and procedures
Community organization and intervention is conducted in the context of professional social work, principles which constitute _______________.
skills, ethics, values & knowledge.
In implementing stages of community intervention practice, social workers are likely to start by developing a ____________________, then identifying intervention, strategies and tactics, implementing a plan according to time frames, and identify methods for evaluating the outcomes of the plan.
community needs assessment
Macro social work practice is most urgently needed when a given community fails to adequately provide for the _____________ of its population.
basic needs
