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SOCIAL WORK Exam 1 Flashcards

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5 essential elements of social work

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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

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Social Work

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3 premises of social work

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  1. The person is important-everyone has worth and value
  2. The person’s relationships with others can cause problems
  3. Something can be done to alleviate a person’s problems and enrich their life
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Roles of a Social Worker

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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

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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

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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.

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Social Welfare

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

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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

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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

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Case management

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Who do social workers work with?

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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

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Group work

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What does social work focus on?

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The person, the system, the relationship between the two

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What are some areas social workers work in?

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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

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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

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Policy Practice

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Values in action

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Ethics

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

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Sociology

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The study of mental processes and behavior

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Psychology

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

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Psychiatrists

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

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NASW code of ethics

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2 theories of SW

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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

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Systems Theory

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

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Ecological Theory

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How do social workers work for social justice

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

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Increasing client ability to determine their own destiny

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Empowerment

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Includes social, racial, and ethnic diversity

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Cultural diversity

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

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Social diversity

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Seeks to respect and maintain ethnic differences

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Cultural Pluralism

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

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Cultural Competency

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

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Competency

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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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T

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2 things that make up social work study

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HBSE (Human Behavior and the Social Environment)

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

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Biopsychosocial model

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Orientation towards social work practice that emphasizes strengths rather than deficits

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Strengths Perspective

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

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T; this is a core foundation of SW

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

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Human behavior

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External conditions and influences surrounding and affecting humans

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Social Environment

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PIE

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Person in Environment; individual and environment are an interrelated whole

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Erikson’s 8 stages of psychological development

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  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)
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Piaget’s 4 periods of human development

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  1. Sensori-Motor Intelligence (birth-2)
  2. Preoperational Thought (2-7)
  3. Concrete Operations (7-11)
  4. Formal Operations (11-adult)
42
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (5) bottom to top

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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)

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

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

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Freud’s psychosexual development stages (5)

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  1. oral (0-18 mos)
  2. anal (18 mos-3.5)
  3. phallic (3.5-6)
  4. latency (6-puberty)
  5. genital (adulthood)
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Key concepts of social domain in SW

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

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T/F Systems theory involves PIE

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T

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What does Systems Theory do for SWers

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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

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Fit between a person and his/her environment

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Goodness of Fit; determined by ecomap

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3 things Systems Theory focuses on

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Person, Person in system, system and their reform

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Diagram of Systems Theory

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  1. Microsystem (immediate rltnships)
  2. Mesosystem (links between microsystems)
  3. Ecosystem (indirect systems)
  4. Macrosystem (culture, history)
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Problem Solving Approach (6 steps)

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

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

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

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F, they are delivered through public agencies and private nonprofits

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2 parts of social welfare

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1) system of services (means to end)

2) societal well-being (end)

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How is social work delivered (3 ways)

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  1. public agencies (gov. run) (child welfare)
  2. private nonprofits (BBBS, Red Cross)
  3. Private for-profit (business sector)
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3 types of institutions that promote quality of life

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  1. political
  2. economic
  3. social
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Conservatives v. Liberals

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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

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

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Capitalism; laissez-fair attitude

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Policy-Making Process

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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

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How is social well-being measured

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

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How is globalization creating a two-tiered employment system?

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

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Nonprofits that aid their members rather than a “public good”

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mutual benefit organizations (ex. vet. affairs)

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

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T

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Provides the ecosystems perspective from which to do SW

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

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Emotional understanding of what the client is going through

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Empathy

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What 3 skills are required to form helping relationships

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Empathy, Authenticity, Acceptance

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

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Cultural Specificity

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

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Cultural Commonality

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3 types of assessments

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Family, Group, Community

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4 characteristics of generalist intervention model

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

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Psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, biological

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

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Evaluation

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Range of differences among humans

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Human diversity

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Real or perceived physical differences; shared culture and values

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Race

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

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Ethnicity

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Person’s view of self as one gender

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Gender identity

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affection, love, or attraction for another person

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Sexual Orientation

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

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Gender

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Biological division between females and males

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Sex

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

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Assimilation

81
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When was the Indian Child Welfare Act put into place?

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1978

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Largest minority group in the US

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Hispanics

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Second largest minority group in US

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African Americans

84
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How many slaves were brought to the US? To the Americas?

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650,000; 10 million

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T/F Hispanics and Latinos are the same

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F

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

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T

87
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The “model minority”

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Asian Americans

88
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What does kinsey’s scale say

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

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Percentage of homeless youth that are LGBT

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

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

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Prejudice

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

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Discrimination

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Set of unearned advantages associated with being a dominant group

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Privilege

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The system by which domination and subordination are maintained and reinforced

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Oppression

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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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T

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