SOCIAL WORK Exam 1 Flashcards
5 essential elements of social work
Purpose, Values, Sanction, Knowledge, Skills
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
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
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
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
Goal of SW
To reconcile the well-being of individuals with the welfare of society
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
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…
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
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
Who do social workers work with?
Individuals, family, the community, government (admin.)
An intervention that utilize group process, based on social systems theory, to promote positive change among group members
Group work
What does social work focus on?
The person, the system, the relationship between the two
What are some areas social workers work in?
A&D, Teen pregnancy, adoptions, counseling, school settings, mental health, health care, law enforcement, family issues
6 core values of SW
Service, Social Justice, Dignitty/Worth of a person, Importance of Human relationships, Integrity, Competence
Involves the formulation, enactment, implementation, and assessment of social welfare policies
Policy Practice
Values in action
Ethics
The study of the origins, organizations, institutions, and development of human society
Sociology
The study of mental processes and behavior
Psychology
The study of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness
Psychiatrists
Provides social work students and professionals with values, principles, and standards to guide their professional conduct
NASW code of ethics
2 theories of SW
Systems Theory
Ecological Theory
Says that no problem can be fully understood by breaking it down, it must be viewed as a whole
Systems Theory
Says that things develop and adapt with all elements in their environment
Ecological Theory
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
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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
- Trust v. Mistrust (birth-18 mos)
- Autonomy v. Shame/Doubt (18 mos-3)
- Initiative v. Guilt(3-6)
- Industry v. Inferiority(6-12)
- Identity v. Role Confusion(adolescence)
- Intimacy v. Isolation(Young Adult)
- Generatively v. Stagnation(Maturity)
- Ego Integrity v. Despair(Old age)
Piaget’s 4 periods of human development
- Sensori-Motor Intelligence (birth-2)
- Preoperational Thought (2-7)
- Concrete Operations (7-11)
- 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)
- oral (0-18 mos)
- anal (18 mos-3.5)
- phallic (3.5-6)
- latency (6-puberty)
- 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
T
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
- Microsystem (immediate rltnships)
- Mesosystem (links between microsystems)
- Ecosystem (indirect systems)
- Macrosystem (culture, history)
Problem Solving Approach (6 steps)
- Assess (presenting v. underlying)
- Plan (goals)
- Implement
- Evaluate
- Terminate
- 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)
- public agencies (gov. run) (child welfare)
- private nonprofits (BBBS, Red Cross)
- Private for-profit (business sector)
3 types of institutions that promote quality of life
- political
- economic
- 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
T
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
- Knowledge, skills, values of SW
- micro, mezzo, macrosystems
- Multiple theories and perspectives
- 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
F
T/F Most Hispanics in the US are of Mexican origins
T
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.
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