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18 Cards in this Set
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Generalist social worker |
Engages in a planned change process to arrive at unique responses to prevent or resolve problems involving persons, families, groups, organizational systems, and communities |
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BSW practitioner |
* Prepared as a generalist social worker
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CSWE |
Counsel on Social Work Education Private, nongovernmental organization Located in Alexandria, Virginia Created in 1952 Membership of more that 3,000 individuals as well as institutional memberships of colleges and universities Authorized to accredit social work educational programs Mission is to provide and sustain high quality in social work education through developing and maintaining standards for social work education |
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NASW |
* Four major functions
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what are the four major functions of nasw |
1. professional devleopment 2. professional action 3. professional standards 4.memebership services |
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Charity Organization Society |
* Last resort was material aid
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Jane Addams |
Settlement house movement Began in England Adams established Hull House in Chicago in 1889 More compassionate view of poor people than the COS volunteers |
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what did the jane adams believe |
Believed that poverty resulted from unjust and unfortunate social conditions Workers lived among the poor and assisted in developing needed services such as day care for children of factory workers through mutual aid Advocated for better working conditions and protective legislation through various governmental bodies |
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Feminization of poverty |
* Many female wage earners earn less than males
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Strengths perspective |
* Especially appropriate in working with clients with disabilities
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System theory |
five systems of special importance to social workers Change agent system: Social workers and their agencies of employment Client system: People who have requested services or have entered into a formal or informal contract with a social worker Target system: People who need to change in order for social work to meet their goals Action system: All those who work with the social worker to accomplish desired changes Professional system: Social work education programs, professional organizations, and the social work professional culture, including values and ethics |
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The person in the environment |
Ecosystems perspective Encourages social workers to maintain simultaneous focus on person and environment Person/environment fit is the actual fit between human wants and needs and the environmental resources available to meet them Life stressors: issues and needs that exceed environmental resources Adaptations: processes people use to try and improve the fit between themselves and their environments |
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Republican Party |
Republican perspective Tend to want to keep things as they are and to resist change These individuals tend to be “haves” who want to keep what they have or who believe that the current system will provide them with the best opportunity to become haves Should not interfere with the free market forces of supply and demand Government should not use its powers to help poor people and that governmental assistance might increase what they perceive as a tendency to be lazy Government should provide tax breaks for the rich because wealthy people invest money in the economic market Investment theoretically could lead to new jobs for poor people Trickle down theory or supply-side economics Aid should be offered only through the private sector (as charity) Preservation of the nuclear family Oppose government day care programs because child care should be provided only by a wife within the family household |
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Democratic party |
* Support social welfare programs that provide monetary assistance to poor children and their families
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The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act |
Lilly Led better was an employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and realized she was earning a lot less than her male counterparts Filed a legal challenge Supreme Court ruled against her on grounds that she had not filed with 180 days of original employment Signed into law on January 29, 2009 Stipulated that pay discrimination claims accrue with every discriminatory pay check an employee receives, not only when a discriminatory pay decision or practice is adopted |
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Children in poverty 1 in 5 |
* Especially children of ethnic minorities
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Affirmative action |
Designed to try and level the playing field for populations at risk |
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TANF |
* Cash benefit program run by the country but established under state law
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