THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS & PROFESSIONALISM Flashcards
What are the reasons people need SSWs and
SWs?
What are some concepts around professional
practice?
What is Systems Theory?
Components & conception of Professionalism
personal and professional integrity
* self understanding and control
* knowledge expertise and self efficacy
* social support and well-being
* critical thinking and scientific inquiry
* lifelong learning
* diversity and difference
* human rights and social economic and environmental justice
* policy practice
* social work values ethics and decision making
What is Integrity?
Adherence to the values and ethics of the profession and to fundamental moral principles such as sincerity, fairness, truthfulness, reliability, dedication, and loyalty is central to professional integrity. However, integrity goes beyond the sum of these virtues to include a general sense of coherence, wholeness, and harmony with social work roles, responsibilities, and expectations. Involving authenticity and sincerity, professional integrity is a matter of personal honor.
Why is Self Understanding and Self Control Important as a SSW?
Because social work practice involves the conscious and deliberate use of various facets of yourself, you become the medium through which to convey knowledge, attitudes, and skill. Therefore, you need a truly extraordinary depth of self-awareness and a well-developed ability to
access different aspects of yourself in your efforts to serve others. Without self-understanding and self-control, integrity would be virtually impossible.
What is self-efficacy?
self-efficacy is an individual’s belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals.
Self-efficacy: believing that I can be effective and being confident in my skills, knowledge, and ability. BUT be humble and be grounded.
