SOCIAL WORK Exam 1 Flashcards by Mattie Clemmons

5 essential elements of social work

Purpose, Values, Sanction, Knowledge, Skills

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The professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities to enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and to create societal conditions favorable to their goals

Social Work

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3 premises of social work

The person is important-everyone has worth and value
The person’s relationships with others can cause problems
Something can be done to alleviate a person’s problems and enrich their life

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Roles of a Social Worker

Enabler-enhance coping and prob solving
Teacher-provide clients with new info
Broker-link people with services
Mediators-help resolve disputes
Advocates-represent and defend clients
Activists-plan/participate in policy change

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3 levels of Social Work

Micro: one-on-one with individuals
Mezzo: Working with fams and small groups
Macro: Working in communities, administration, or policy practice

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Goal of SW

To reconcile the well-being of individuals with the welfare of society

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The system of programs, benefits, and services that help people meet the social, economic, educational, and health needs fundamental to the maintenance of society.

Social Welfare

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T/F SW are the smallest group of mental health providers in the US

F, the largest-There are more clinically trained social workers than psychiatric nurses, psychologists, and psychiatrists combined…

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The use of social work knowledge, values, and skills in face-to-face relationships to resolve or reduce difficulties arising out of disequilibrium between people and their environment

Casework

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Service done by an ind. or team of professionals who organize, coordinate, and sustain a network of formal and informal supports in order to optimize the functioning and well-being of people with multiple needs

Case management

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Who do social workers work with?

Individuals, family, the community, government (admin.)

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An intervention that utilize group process, based on social systems theory, to promote positive change among group members

Group work

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What does social work focus on?

The person, the system, the relationship between the two

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What are some areas social workers work in?

A&D, Teen pregnancy, adoptions, counseling, school settings, mental health, health care, law enforcement, family issues

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6 core values of SW

Service, Social Justice, Dignitty/Worth of a person, Importance of Human relationships, Integrity, Competence

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Involves the formulation, enactment, implementation, and assessment of social welfare policies

Policy Practice

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Values in action

Ethics

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The study of the origins, organizations, institutions, and development of human society

Sociology

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The study of mental processes and behavior

Psychology

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The study of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness

Psychiatrists

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Provides social work students and professionals with values, principles, and standards to guide their professional conduct

NASW code of ethics

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2 theories of SW

Systems Theory

Ecological Theory

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Says that no problem can be fully understood by breaking it down, it must be viewed as a whole

Systems Theory

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Says that things develop and adapt with all elements in their environment

Ecological Theory

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How do social workers work for social justice

They examine the factors that contribute to discrimination and oppression and create laws and institutions to serve oppressed populations

Increasing client ability to determine their own destiny

Empowerment

Includes social, racial, and ethnic diversity

Cultural diversity

Refers to differences based on age, class, or sexual orientation

Social diversity

Seeks to respect and maintain ethnic differences

Cultural Pluralism

Understood through 5 dimensional framework of informational, intellectual, interpersonal, interpersonal, and interventional competencies

Cultural Competency

Striving to increase professional skills and knowledge and apply them to practice

Competency

When dealing with Social Justice and Human Rights, SW examine factors of discrimination and oppression to help change the system T/F

2 things that make up social work study

HBSE (Human Behavior and the Social Environment)

How biology, psychology, and social components of human functioning exist in relation to one another

Biopsychosocial model

Orientation towards social work practice that emphasizes strengths rather than deficits

Strengths Perspective

T/F SW believes that people exist in a reciprocal relationship with their environment

T; this is a core foundation of SW

Any action displayed by a human being in response to its internal physiology, psychology, and its external environment

Human behavior

External conditions and influences surrounding and affecting humans

Social Environment

PIE

Person in Environment; individual and environment are an interrelated whole

Erikson's 8 stages of psychological development

1. Trust v. Mistrust (birth-18 mos) 2. Autonomy v. Shame/Doubt (18 mos-3) 3. Initiative v. Guilt(3-6) 4. Industry v. Inferiority(6-12) 5. Identity v. Role Confusion(adolescence) 6. Intimacy v. Isolation(Young Adult) 7. Generatively v. Stagnation(Maturity) 8. Ego Integrity v. Despair(Old age)

Piaget's 4 periods of human development

1. Sensori-Motor Intelligence (birth-2) 2. Preoperational Thought (2-7) 3. Concrete Operations (7-11) 4. Formal Operations (11-adult)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (5) bottom to top

Physiological (breathing, food, water, homeostasis, sex) Safety (of body, family, health, property) Love/Belonging (Friendship, fam, sexual intimacy) Esteem (self-esteem, confidence, respect) Self-Actualization (morality, creativity, problem solving, acceptance)

Bronfenbrenner's ecological model (center to outer, 4)

Microsystem: home, caregivers, siblings Mesosystem: school, peers Exosystem: Local gov., employment Macrosystem: historical events, cultural and political context

Freud's psychosexual development stages (5)

1. oral (0-18 mos) 2. anal (18 mos-3.5) 3. phallic (3.5-6) 4. latency (6-puberty) 5. genital (adulthood)

Key concepts of social domain in SW

wholeness, relationship, homeostasis, says to understand a system it must be broken down into component parts

T/F Systems theory involves PIE

What does Systems Theory do for SWers

provides them with a way of understanding that individuals are both systems themselves and parts of systems that are in turn part of even greater systems

Fit between a person and his/her environment

Goodness of Fit; determined by ecomap

3 things Systems Theory focuses on

Person, Person in system, system and their reform

Diagram of Systems Theory

1. Microsystem (immediate rltnships) 2. Mesosystem (links between microsystems) 3. Ecosystem (indirect systems) 4. Macrosystem (culture, history)

Problem Solving Approach (6 steps)

1. Assess (presenting v. underlying) 2. Plan (goals) 3. Implement 4. Evaluate 5. Terminate 6. Follow-Up

3 branches of government

Judicial (interprets law) Executive (enforces law) Legislative (creates law)

T/F Social Welfare services are only delivered through private nonprofits

F, they are delivered through public agencies and private nonprofits

2 parts of social welfare

1) system of services (means to end) | 2) societal well-being (end)

How is social work delivered (3 ways)

1. public agencies (gov. run) (child welfare) 2. private nonprofits (BBBS, Red Cross) 3. Private for-profit (business sector)

3 types of institutions that promote quality of life

1. political 2. economic 3. social

Conservatives v. Liberals

C: free market, limited gov, motivator is individual profit, private agencies provide services, private philanthropy, poverty is the fault of the individual L: regulated market, gov. involvement, market economy has negative tendencies to minorities, 3 types of institutions should support well-being and services, poverty created by society

Economic system that emphasizes private business initiative in the pursuit of profits through the use of private property

Capitalism; laissez-fair attitude

Policy-Making Process

Bill proposed --> committee --> committee discusses and decides (bill can die or be sent to the floor) --> House/Senate votes --> Other chamber votes --> if approved by both, president --> president signs, vetoes, or does nothing

How is social well-being measured

GDP, unemployment rates, inflation rates, SW also include social justice, respect for diversity, poverty and crime rates, teen pregnancy, child abuse rates

How is globalization creating a two-tiered employment system?

Full-time, higher paid group and part-time, lower paid

Nonprofits that aid their members rather than a "public good"

mutual benefit organizations (ex. vet. affairs)

T/F The private nonprofit sector is the birthplace of SW

Provides the ecosystems perspective from which to do SW

Generalist Practice; deals with consulting with clients, managing resources of systems for clients, and offering clients info

Emotional understanding of what the client is going through

Empathy

What 3 skills are required to form helping relationships

Empathy, Authenticity, Acceptance

Belief that while minority groups have certain histories, individuals are unique

Cultural Specificity

Certain minority groups share experiences in their history such as oppression and discrimination

Cultural Commonality

3 types of assessments

Family, Group, Community

4 characteristics of generalist intervention model

1. Knowledge, skills, values of SW 2. micro, mezzo, macrosystems 3. Multiple theories and perspectives 4. problem solving method

Examples of Intervention Methods

Psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, biological

Monitoring intervention processes and outcomes on regular basis; improves and documents the effectiveness of SW interventions

Evaluation

Range of differences among humans

Human diversity

Real or perceived physical differences; shared culture and values

Race

Traditions, Customs, activities, beliefs, and practices that pertain to a group of people who see themselves as distinct

Ethnicity

Person's view of self as one gender

Gender identity

affection, love, or attraction for another person

Sexual Orientation

Person's ID as man or woman, socially constructed concept that incorporates expectations of femininity and masculinity

Gender

Biological division between females and males

Sex

Practice of coercively absorbing a minority group into the dominant group and causing the group to lose important elements of its ID

Assimilation

When was the Indian Child Welfare Act put into place?

1978

Largest minority group in the US

Hispanics

Second largest minority group in US

African Americans

How many slaves were brought to the US? To the Americas?

650,000; 10 million

T/F Hispanics and Latinos are the same

T/F Most Hispanics in the US are of Mexican origins

The "model minority"

Asian Americans

What does kinsey's scale say

Sexuality is more of a scale than one extreme or the other

Percentage of homeless youth that are LGBT

40%, 4-20% of American population is LGBTQ

the prejudgement (usually negative) of an individual or group without sufficient information to support the judgement.

Prejudice

usually derives from prejudice, the practice of treating individuals or groups differently.

Discrimination

Set of unearned advantages associated with being a dominant group

Privilege

The system by which domination and subordination are maintained and reinforced

Oppression

T/F Promoting social justice and eliminating injustices based on prejudice and discrimination are among social work’s key values and goals.