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SOWK Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ongoing underlying issues for societies: | -Responsibility for relief to those in need -Place of need in society -Purpose of reliefe -Worthiness of recipients -Types of benefits to provide -Methods/qualifications of those providing relief |
| Social Work | professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal |
| Social Welfare policy | A nation’s system of programs, benefits, and services that help people meet those social, economic, educational and health needs that are fundamental to the maintenance of society |
| Policy begins with a “problem” defined by: | -What are the most serious consequences? -What is causing problem? -who/ what is effected? -What values are represented by problem? |
| Attitudes toward children | -Increasing child exploitation in 1700s-1800s w/ industrialization -Abandoned, unwanted or orphaned children often placed in almshouses with adults |
| Origins of child welfare policy | -Late 1800s -Children into orphanages 1853 – Reverend Charles Loring organizes the Children’s Aid Society |
| Orphan Trains | -1853-1929 -Reverend Charles Loring -supervised welfare program: transported children from crowded Eastern cities to families/ foster homes in rural areas of the Midwest. - for orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children |
| Colonial America (“lunatics”) | People with psychiatric conditions, referred to as the insane, were usually treated in inhumane and brutal ways Mentally ill= Cared for by families/ Communities assist (tax based and local) |
| Institutionalization (moral treatment movement) | -Dorethea Dix -1800/1900s -Provide humane treatment in specialized institutional settings |
| Specialized institutions | health care facilities that manage specific health conditions such as a psychiatric hospital |
| Deinstitutionalization | -Late 1900s to present -Provision of care in people’s own communities -advocates the transfer of mentally disabled people from public or private institutions, back to their families or into community-based homes. |
| policy implementation | -stage where policy action occurs to address a recognized policy problem -the design of a policy proposal is put into effect -Policies are executed by respective administrative agencies. |
| Policy | a statement of intent and is implemented as a procedure or protocol. |
| Social Policy | guidelines, principles, legislation or activities that affect the living conditions, conducive to human welfare, such as a person's quality of life |
| social welfare programs goals (Explicit vs. Implicit) | -Explicit:directly states Implicit: predict spontaneous behavior and behavioral trends over time |
| What are the eligibility criteria to receive benefits? | Means testing Public assistance Social insurance |
| general revenues vs. earmarked | Earnmarked: the budgeting practice of dedicating $$ to a specific program/ purpose. General: The sum $$ taken in at the state and local level |
| Sliding fee scale | -fees for services are adjusted depending on an individual's income -allow for fairness/ address income inequality -higher income= pay more -lower income= pay less |
| Hard benefits vs. Soft benefits | Hard: based solely on measurable facts. determine the success of a project Soft: ‘indirect’ benefits. any positive factor that arises from carrying out the project. do not relate to statistics or monetary improvements. |
| Cash benefits vs. In-kind benefits | cash: provides the recipient with cash rather than goods or services. in kind: usually a government transfer of goods or services to the poorer people in its society |
| Personal social services | a range of services provided by local authorities for a number of vulnerable groups |
| Location of primary responsibility for social welfare (Individual vs. Society) | society: gov. is responsible for organizing the redistribution of the goods necessary to satisfy all society members' basic needs or of the money to purchase these goods Indvidual: we are each responsible for our own actions and their consequences. |
| Purpose of relief (Short-Term vs. Sustaining) | short: food, shelter, medical expenses, childcare expenses, transportation |
| Means testing | requirement that applicants for public assistance submit to investigation of their needs and resources. |
| Social Insurance | -form of social welfare that provides insurance against economic risks may be provided publicly or through the subsidizing of private insurance. - individuals' claims are partly dependent on their contributions, |
| Social inference | -understanding information that is not directly stated -involves observing a situation, using clues and background knowledge |
| confirmation bias vs selective bias | confirmation bias: interpreting information that confirms one's beliefs selective perception: interpreting information that is consistent with one's beliefs |
| Integrating data/information | |
| Schematic processing (schema vs. social schema vs. self-schema) | Scema: describes patterns of thinking and behavior that people use to interpret the world Social schemas: schemas about groups of people (steroetypes) Self-schemas: your knowledge about yourself (Schemas about ourselves (”People don’t notice me”) |
| Descriptive vs. Prescriptive identity | Prescriptive: ppl make assumptions without regard for the individual. (Stereotypes are the most typical example) Descriptive: person adopts an identity because they believe it describes them well |
| 4 expectations of Cultural humility | Critical self-reflection Lifelong learning Recognize and challenge power imbalances Institutional accountability |
| When did Reverend Charles Loring organizes the Children’s Aid Society? | 1853 |
| When was US Children’s Bureau created? What is it? | -1912 -programs that reduce child abuse/neglect, increase the number of adoptions, and strengthen foster care |
| 5 Structural components of social welfare programs | 1. People’s needs and program goals 2. Kinds of benefits provided 3. Eligibility criteria for the program 4. Financing of program 5. Administration and operation of program |
| Examples of residual programs | SNAP/ TANF Medicaid Homeless shelters |
| Examples of institutional programs | Social Security Medicare Libraries Health Department Veteran’s Benefits |
| Conservatice beliefs about SW | -Individual responsibility -Pessimistic: people are basically lazy -Government should not interfere -benefit availability: selective -Residual programs > |
| Liberal beliefs about SW | -Society’s responsibility -Optimistic: people will thrive if given support -government’s responsibility to help -benefits: universal -institutional programs |
| Social meanings | -part of what we internalize when we are socialized -filter for what we see/experience/understand -part of what contributes to our ‘self’ or our identity |
| social perception | process by which we form impressions of ourselves, others and the social world |
| Sources of information we use for social perception | -Nonverbal Behavior… Physical appearance… -forms of data |
| Implications of social perception and cognitive processes | -Social stratification (privilege/ oppression) -Institutionalization ( barriers and opportunities) -Identity |
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