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| Procedures used to ensure oppertunities such as employment, advancement or admission to professional programs to people who have been discriminated against, such as woman and members of minority groups |
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| The practice of stereotyping people according to their age; frequently refers to prejudice against older adults |
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| Charitable Organization Society |
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| Began in England and moved to Buffolo New York. Mary Richmond (also started the first social work school in new york). Believed that the poor were unworthy and would come to bring a "moral uplift" and be friendly visitors |
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| Child Poverty in the U.S. |
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| one in every 2 children under the age of six living in a female headed family lived below the poverty line in 1999 and children constitue 40% of poor people |
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| can be traced back to Brace's New York Childrens Aid Society in 853 where children were shipped west this lead to institutions and protective services |
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| resist change; people are naturally lazy, currupt and self centered; people are guided by free will, traditional family, no governement regulation |
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| person and enviroment and interacting continually mutually affecting one another. person-family-orginization-state-nation |
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| a process through which people gain the strength to singnificantly impact the institutions that affect their lives |
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| services good or money due to an indivdual by virtue of a specific status |
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| factors that differentiate social work from other professions |
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| Dual focus- (social enviroment and psycholsocial function) and it build on strengths |
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| the increasing incidence of poverty among women due to lower average wages than men and limited access to high paid positions |
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| A professional social worker who engages in problem solving,utalizing and making connections to arrive at unique responsive solutions, involiving intervention in systems of various sizes. Generalist are competent to work with or on bealf of individuals, families, groups, orginizations and communities |
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| income maintenance programs |
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| this included the social sercurity act during the new deal in 1935. it included 1) social insurence (collected by FICA and is OASI and unemployment) 2)public assistence (AFDC/TANF blind aged and needy kids) and 3) health and welfare services. |
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| Social welfare services should be offered routinely as part of normal, nonemergency, problem solving processes; they should be available without stigma to help prevent further problems |
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| the belief that people should normally be able to meet all their needs through their ownb family or through the job market. Only after the family and thje job market have failed should the formal social welfare system get involved. |
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| A plan of action used by social workers to help create desired change involving serveral steps; engaging the client system, identifying and defining important issues, gathering and assessing data, identifying plans of action, contracting, implementing plans of action, evaluating outcomes and terminating |
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| the increasing incidece of poverty among children, related to the feminization of poverty |
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basic-BSW
intermediate- MSW
advanced- MSW plus 2 years exp
clinical- MWA plus 2 years exp clinical |
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