Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Social Work 376 exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is definition of generalist social work practice? | an approach to understanding and helping others based on: ecosystems perspective, strengths perspective, planned change process, understanding diversity, all within NASW values & ethical code |
| Ecosystems Theory: | combines both system theory and ecological perspective- the environment variables reciprocally interact with person variables and therefore environment interventions must be included as part of the social workers understanding |
| Why is the ecosystem theory fundamental in how social workers understand their world | because ecosystems perspective is inclusive of PIE model which contains dual focus aspect of social work |
| PIE model is helpful in.. dual focus of person and environment helps workers.. | assessment of causality in client suffering or client difficulties.. not fall into blaming the victim stance |
| Strength based perspective | all people have goals, talents, and confidence; further, that all environments contain resources, people and opportunities |
| Planned Change Process | help determine levels of intervention- micro, mezzo, macro. 1. engage and intake 2. assessment 3. planning 4. intervention 5. termination 6. follow up |
| When is there a time that diversity may not be a good thing? | When a person espouses hate crime literature on their website recruiting others that hating and discriminating against a specific ethnic group is a good thing |
| NASW 6 Core Values | 1. service to client 2. social justice 3. dignity and worth of person 4. importance of human relationships 5. integrity 6. competence |
| Social Workers help others achieve positive social functioning via activities of | social care, social treatment, social enhancement |
| Social Justice | fairness and moral rightness in how social institutions such as governments, corporations, and powerful groups recognize and support the basic human rights of people |
| Domain 1: Social Work Purpose- basic human rights | right to have food, shelter, basic medical care, and essential social services necessary to maintain ones life. |
| Domain 2: Social Work Focus- Dual Focus | assist individuals, groups, or communities to restore or enhance their capacity for social functioning, white creating societal conditions favorable to their goals |
| Doman 2: Social Work Focus- PIE | unique, simultaneous dual focus on the always constant- reciprocal relation between the environment and person; |
| Domain 3: Scope of Social Work | Micro, Mezzo, Macro |
| Doman 4: sanction of social work | authorization, approval, or permission needed by the social work profession in order to perform certain professional tasks or activities |
| Domain 4: Sanction Examples | 1. Governments: legislation creates social programs and government credentials 2. Private human service organizations (non profit & for profit) 3. NASW- our professional organ. with ethical code 4. willingness of public to use our services on daily basis |
| professional drift | when social workers 'drift' outside of their mission statement domain- and neglect the social work's profession traditional purpose and function in favor of activities associated with another professionals disipline |
| professional drift at micro level | SW may drift into clinical models and theories that minimize social policy and social justices as part of clients etiological explanation for their difficulty |
| professional drift and macro level | social worker administrators/managers who were trained as social workers but not identify primarily with their specific organization that values dominant societal values |
| Social Work as a life Companion | people who chose social work as a career need (or should have) a core value and belief called an Ethic of caring for others but also for oneself and family |
| Earning a Living as a social worker | people do not choose social work because of what they will earn, however thy can not devote their time to the practice of social work unless they can earn a living. |
| When selecting any career: Socrates/Bruno | Know thyself./Know thyself within thy culture |
| acquiring a reputation | I believe that realty is socially constructed- therefore- social workers need to take responsibility to construct agency cultures that reflect the value of caring and congruent to SW code of ethics |
| Acquiring a reputation: respect | SW should treat colleagues with respect and should represent accurately and fairly the qualification, views, and obligations of colleagues/ avoid unwarranted negative criticism/ cooperate with colleagues |
| Conflict over Agency | at a healthy agency staff can agree to disagree- but when there is too much conflict and subsequent emotional resentment that agency staff can NOT left go of this resentment then agency culture may become toxic |
| Promoting Social Justice | most SW are idealistic- although some critics trivialize or minimize idealism as immature or faddish |
| Social Workers must always be open to the possibility | that they or their agency may unintentionally and unknowingly contribute to a social injustice |
| Evil | the absence of good |
| Banal | so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring; so commonplace as to be predictable and boring |
| Zimbardo | indicated that while we can not ignore individual choice issues 100% of the time situational factors are extremely relevant in how and when people will conform to policy and rules that damage others |
| Organizational Fatigue | due to being over exposed to clients with chronic difficulties and learned helplessness |
| 3 ways agencies can decrease organizational fatigue | reasonable work loads and appropriate staffing, adequate agency resources, weekly scheduled meetings for supervision and crisis debriefing |
| what is the definition of art | skill arising the exercise of intuitive faculties |
| How can social work be considered an art | compassionate and courageous with clients- they can heal in conversation |
| atributes that artist possesses | creative when overcoming barriers to change, promotes trust in their professional relationships with clients, pay attention to personal and professional values in their relationships with others |
| Value | belief as to how things ought to be |
| Science | is the objective identification, description, experimental investigation of theoretical explanations and phenomena |
| Social Work Practice Definition | the process of using knowledge and applying theory to bring about specific change |
| What are 3 types of practice frameworks | practice frameworks, practice theory, practice model |
| Practice Framework | help guide the worker to bring about change within the client worker relationship |
| Practice Theory | offers both an explanation of certain behaviors or situations that guide the worker on how client can be changed |
| Practice Model | set of concepts and principles used to guide an intervention- however in contrast to practice theory- a model does not explain why or causality aspects of change |
| technique | a set of actions directed at accomplishing a particular outcome |
| guidelines | are typically a mix of prescriptions (do this) and proscriptions (avoid this) |
| roles | a specific expected pattern of behavior that is specified by the group or culture |
| function | tasks or activities to perform in a specific role |
| Broker Role | identifies client needs, assesses client motivation and capacity to use various resources and helps person gain access to these resources |
| Advocate Role | speaks in favor of client |
| Teacher Role | responsibility to teach client necessary adaptive skills for effective social interaction to help the client learn new behaviors, including problem solving skills |
| Counselor Role | applies social work theory and methods of treatments to persons with emotional difficulties, disability or other psychosocial impairments |
| Manager Role | primary responsibility for assessing a wide variety of client needs: arranging the delivery of essential goods and services to clients in a reasonable manner |
| Administrator Role | assumes responsibility for implementing the agency's policies and managing it's programs |
| Supervisor Role | often serves in middle managements positions. They work to maintain and improve staff performance they maximize the effectiveness of professional helpers |
| Research/Evaluator Role | must intermittently evaluate client progress toward goals; collecting data for client progress and needed for agency feedback |
| Principles that guide practice activities | social worker should do no harm, engage in EBP, should be concerned for person, individualize the client, build on strength, maximize participation, adhere to the philosophy or normalization |
| practice | the application of theory and/or research in the client-worker relationship in order to promote client change |
| generalist perspective | refers to a practitioner who has a broad range of knowledge and skills who draws on several perspective, theories, and/or models, and who can move with minimal difficulty from one field of practice to another |
| niche | the position a species occupies in the biotic community, in humans, the social position or status occupied in the exsiting social structure relative to power and oppression |
| specialization | refers to when species adapt unique survival characteristics that decrease their competition for environment resources |
| predation | refers to when one species (predator) feeds on or utilizes another species (prey) |
| symbiosis | refers to a type of interaction wherein either one or both species benefit |
| parasitism | refers to relationship when the parasite benefits while the host is harmed. (person with cancer) |
| Strengths | personal characteristics, talents and skills, environmental resources, and aspirations that people possess or have access to |
| 6 principles of strength (1-3) | 1. every individ, group, family and community has strength 2. although illness/abuse may be injurious can also be source challenge 3. worker must not assume NOT to know upper limits of clients capacity to change |
| 6 Principles of Strength (4-6) | 4. we serve clients best by collaborating with them 5. every environmental is full of resources 6. caring and context are primary |
| ethnic sensitive perspective | prostulates that since persons are shaped by their cultural, ethnic and environmental backgrounds- these latter factors will influence how the individual client defines as presenting issue |
| feminism | philosophy of equality between women and men that involves both attitudes and actions, that infiltrates virtually all aspects of life |
| sex | anatomical and/or genetic chromosomal differences |
| gender | refers to socially constructed differences as reflected in the meaning of people- within a specific culture- assign to biological differences via cultural ideas of fem. masculinity |
| sexism | refers to the presumption that one sex (usually the female) is inferior to and should be subordinate to the other |
| patriarchy | refers to a hierarchical system of societal organization in which men control the family, political, and economic structures |
| Skinners Behavioral Theory | identify, evaluate, respond |
| cognitive theory | identify, evaluate, respond |
| common distortions | absolute thinking, overgeneralization, selective abstraction, arbitrary inference, magnification, minimization, personalization |
| psychodynamic theory | mental dynamic = dynamo energy |
| physic determinism | that one's mental energies and behaviors are caused by UCS forces- derived primarily by issues related to ones childhood |
| object relations theory | a updated psychodynamic theory that states that interpersonal relationships experienced primarily from ones early childhood are internalized in ones mind- setting a template for how the individual interacts with others throughout ones life |
| defense mechanisms | regression- a primarily UCS mental construct in which under some specific psychosocial stressor- the person returns to an earlier form of behavior in order to decrease their anxiety related to an inner conflict |
Created by:
jansej58