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large scale financial support from the federal government for the social welfare institution started in the 1930s. |
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| Name 2 important social work services that started in the late 1800s and early 1900s |
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Settlement house movement
charity organization society movement (COS) |
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the idea that one is the master of one's own fate.
*Poor people were to acquire their own material goods through hard work and their own efforts. |
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| What was the Protestant Ethic and when was it an important economic view? |
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| Protestant Ethic was an important economic view during the industrial revolution which emphasized individualism. |
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| What is the residual conception of social welfare? |
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view that funds and services should be provided primarily during emergencies on a short-term basis.
*not every crisis. |
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| What is the Culture of Poverty? Who coined the term? |
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| Oscar Lewis described culture of poverty as a way of life passed down from generation to generation. |
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| What is deinstitutionalization? |
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| taking mentally ill out of institutions and placing them in the community where they would be able to receive care.. services weren’t there… no funding to provide mental health care services. |
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Poverty decreases social risk factors for unemployment, lack of education, absent fathers, inadequate health care, and living in adverse neighborhoods. |
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False.
Poverty negatively increases social risk factors for unemployment, lack of education, absent fathers, inadequate health care, and living in adverse neighborhood. Its POVERTY not MINORITIES |
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| Name risks associated with teen parenthood. |
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| economic dependency, interruption or dropping out of education programs, inability to balance the role requirements of both parenting and being a teenager. |
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Health indicators report that the poor have higher rates of untreated illnesses than the non poor in the United States. |
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| Why are Health Care costs rapidly increasing in the United States? |
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| expensive technological advances, increased lifespan of Americans, profit orientation of healthcare provision. |
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Alcohol and Tobacco kill more people annually than illegal drugs. |
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| Name ongoing risks related to unemployment rate increases. |
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| suicide, divorce, and child abuse rates increase. |
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| the professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities enhance well-being with particular attention to the vulnerable, oppressed, and those living in poverty. |
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| Define Generalist social work practice. |
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| based on assessment, planning, intervention, termination, and on going evaluation. |
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| What is the first step in generalist social work practice? |
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| Assessment. It is the fundamental basis for planning intervention goals and objectives as well as engaging the client in change. |
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| What are the biopsychosocial approach? |
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| Physical, social and psychological environmental factors |
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| What is the multidimensional approach? |
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| social workers use this approach to understand human behavior as changing configurations of PERSON and ENVIRONMENT over TIME. |
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| What must social workers consider when using PERSONAL dimensions? |
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| biological, psychological, social and spiritual aspects |
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| What must social workers consider when using ENVIRONMENTAL dimensions? |
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| physical environment, community, culture, and families |
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| What must social workers consider when using TIME dimensions? |
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| life course, life events, cycles and trends. |
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Social workers work in the social welfare institution which promotes interdependence as well as dealing with issues of dependence. |
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| What are formal organizations? |
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| collectivity of people with a high degree of formality structure who work together to meet a goal or goals. |
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| people bound by geography or by webs of communication, sharing common ties, and interacting with one another. |
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a search for purpose, meaning, and connection between oneself, other people, the universe, and the ultimate reality, which can be experienced within either a religious or non religious framework.
*faith will be an option, but it is wrong. |
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World view is a cognitive picture of the way things- nature, self, society- actually are. |
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| Why was the person-in-environment (PIE) classification system developed? |
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| for the purpose of social work assessment and classification. PIE allows Social Workers to have more options of intervention. |
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| What is the family life cycle perspective? |
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| an approach where the social worker focuses on understanding the family over time and proposes normative changes and tasks at different stages. |
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| Define the ABC-X model of family stress and coping. |
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A way of viewing families that focuses on stressor events and crises, family resources, family definitions and beliefs, and outcomes of stress pileup
*identifying strengths of each family member to get cope with stress |
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| What is the life course perspective? |
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| an approach to human behavior that recognizes the influence of age, and each person as having a unique long-term pattern of stability and change, as well as acknowledging the commonalities of shared social, cultural, and historical contexts. |
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| Define the psychodynamic perspective. |
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| concerned with how internal processes such as needs, drives, and emotions motivate human behavior |
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The social behavioral perspective assumes that learning takes place as individual interact with their environment. |
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The humanistic perspective is an approach that sees human behavior as based on freedom of action of the individual and focuses on the human search for meaning |
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| What is the conflict perspective? |
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| an approach to human behavior that draws attention to conflict, dominance, and oppression in social life. |
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| What are empowerment theories? |
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| focuses on processes by which individuals and collectivities can recognize patterns of inequality and injustice and take action to increase personal power. |
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Feminist theories focus on female domination of the major social institutions and present a vision of a just world, based on gender equality. |
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False.
Feminist theories focus on MALE domination of the major social institutions and present a vision of a just world, based on gender equality. |
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| What is the purpose of social welfare? |
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| What is the purpose of family kinship? |
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| What is the purpose of government and politics? |
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| What is the purpose of the education system? |
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| Passes along formal education and knowledge |
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| What is “Cultural Competence”? |
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| Knowledge and skill to be effective with multicultural clients |
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| What does a culturally competent social worker do? |
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| learns about other cultures, shares information with clients, asks questions of clients, and acknowledges cultural differences. |
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Culture is leaned and shared patterns of behavior. |
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| unquestioning belief in the superiority of one's own culture. |
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| acting or behaving on prejudicial beliefs. |
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| an important goal when working with multicultural clients because it enables clients to develop the skills and capacity to gain control over their lives. |
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| What is self-determination? |
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| individual's right to make his or her own decisions. |
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| Define institutional racism. |
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based on policies, practices and procedures that systematically exclude people on the basis of race or ethnicity.
*usually unintentional, but still hurtful.
EX: hundreds of black babies die because of poor living conditions and discrimination in the black community |
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| an assessment illustration where the individual is the center of a circle; around the outside of the circle are a series of other circles that represent systems in the social environment. |
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| an assessment tool that includes a chronological description of a family across several generations. |
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| List potential areas of client strength. |
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| religion, values, group identity, interests, family, friends, talents. |
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| What is the macro system? |
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Describes the culture in which individuals live.
*important when working with multicultural clients because problems and solutions may be based in the larger social environment |
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| What is the micro system? |
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Microsystems consist of individual or interpersonal features and those aspects of groups that comprise the social identity
EX: mother, father, sister, brother, child |
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organizational or institutional factors that shape or structure the environment within which the individual and interpersonal relations occur.
EX: rules, policies, and acceptable business etiquette |
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| What issues can be potentially challenging for people with disabilities? |
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| negative stigma, finding appropriate living arrangements, health conditions, and job opportunities. |
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Term
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| the right to receive information about the range of available treatments, to be treated with respect, and the right to be fully informed and accurately about the procedures, benefits, and possible risks of clinical work. |
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| What are the potential benefits for understanding client's religious beliefs? |
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| adding important components to our knowledge of that client, encourages general tolerance and open-mindedness, acknowledges that shared beliefs can strengthen the clients ties to others, and acknowledges the important role religion can play in the client's life. |
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| why is empowerment an important goal when working with multicultural clients? |
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| Multicultural clients are most likely vulnerable and most likely to be depressed— empowerment helps them find their own voice, and be dependent. |
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| what is individual racism? |
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