Social Work Education and Accreditation Flashcards
Textbook 1
Dulmus, C. N. & Sowers, K. M. (2012). The profession of social work: Guided by history, led by evidence. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN:
978-1-118-24018-2
Council on Social Work Education
CSWE was established in 1952, formed from AASSW- the accrediting organization of the graduate social work schools- and NASSA- the organization representing baccalaureate social work school (Austin, 1997).
Purpose of Social Work education
Purpose of Social Work education - the first schools of Social Work tended to focus more on the types of practice for which they were preparing students rather than the overall purpose of preparing students for practice. if active practice preparation is still a focus for both the Baccalaureate and masters social work programs
BSW
The BSW generally includes 2 years of undergraduate education and liberal arts and two years in a social work major
MSW
A masters in social work prepares graduates for advanced practice in areas of concentration (CSWE, 2008)
DSW and PhD
DSW programs differ from a PhD program in that they prepare graduates for advanced practice. Doctoral programs and social work are not accredited, many doctoral programs belong to the group for the advancement of doctoral education (GADE), which provides a forum for sharing ideas and strategies and strengthening members efforts at enhancing doctoral education (Gade, n.d.)
Education for Practice
Specialization in practice has a corresponding specialization in education, evidence by differentiation and Social Work graduate concentrations, dual degree programs, and certificate programs, and can be seen and curriculum and pedagogy.
** Specialization became more prominent as practice needs changed and evolved
Textbook 2 of 2!
Weisman, D., & Zornado, J. (2018). Professional writing for social work practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN: 978-0-8261-
7814-5
White Privilege
White Privilege means that a White’s person’s personal experiences with law enforcement are usually positive
Cultural Competency
Cultural Competency is not about proving one person’s perception as more accurate than another’s, rather it means to actively learn about an understand how perception works, and developing the ability to separate one’s own views of reality of others, and recognize other’s differences difference perceptions as their realities without judgment.
Continued: Cultural Competency
Cultural Competency is essentially one aspect of critical thinking.. it required the ability to self-assess and to work with others to continually strive to improve all cross-cultural interactions.
Continued: Cultural Competency
Cultural Competency and critical thinking go hand in hand.. When writing for professional purposes, strive for language free from judgement.
Continued: Cultural Competency
Cultural Competency requires your willingness to explore the reasons someone else may believe differently than you do, and skill in communicating nonjudgmentally with that person.
Class, Culture, and Ethnicity
Socioeconomic diversity in the U.S. also tells a sobering story about social stratification and imbalance of privilege and power between the haves and the have-nots.
Continued: Class, Culture, and Ethnicity
Today, the term ethnicity refers to the state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
Continued: Class, Culture, and Ethnicity
The term race, on the other hand, is more problematic. biologists cannot demonstrate discrete, physical attributes that make up a single race, and research on the subject of race tends to show that racial categories are extremely unstable groupings of insignificant physical differences.
Neuropsychology - helps us understand why cultural competency is so important and helps explain how brain development occurs within a cultural context that informs our beliefs as we grow.
Neuroscience offers a way to understand how one’s environment means so much to the developing brain.
Research confirms that the more of one kind of interaction we have, the more likely it is that our behavior related to that interaction becomes a conditioned response/
Continued: Cultural Competency and the Brain
More malignant forms of bias and prejudice are deliberate rather than unconscious, and manifest themselves with hurtful actions and words.
Continued: Cultural Competency and the Brain
Aversive racism describes what happens to the brain when trapped between explicit and implicit bias.
For example they typically tend to express this personal Prejudice with feelings of uneasiness and anxiety or avert eye contact and perhaps blinker more including uncomplementary things to say about a stigmatized group
Accreditation and growth
the need for trained social workers has driven this growth in and the need for continued training has remained strong
EPAS
Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) Are the bases for accreditation and social work at the Baccalaureate and Masters levels
