Social Work Chapter 1

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micro practice

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helping individuals fit better into their environments

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macro practice

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changing the environment so that it works better for individuals

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self determination

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a person's right to decide what is best for herself or himself

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Charity Organization Society (COS)

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efforts begun in the 1880s with the primary goals of learning what caused indiviual poverty and probiding organized servives to alleviate poverty; the emphasis of the organization was on serving individuals and their families.

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Settlement Movement

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organized social welfare efforts begun in the late 1800s to help people who were poor, particularly immigrants; the efforts included workers living within the community and proiding services from their dwelling or settlement

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Council on the Social Work Education (CSWE)

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nonprofit national association that represents over 3,000 individual members, 172 graduate programs, and 448 undergraduate programs of professional social work education; founded in 1952, CSWE is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the United States.

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National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

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membership organization of professional social workers with more than 150,000 members; works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, creates and maintains professional standards, and advances social policies.

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person-in-environment perspective

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perspective used by social workers to understand clients experiencing difficulties with their roles, self-perception, and expectation in their interactions with others and in the context of their surrounding environment.

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general systems theory

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explains the behavior of people and societies by identifying the components of subsystems interact and affect the larger system; this holistic framework is concerned with system boundaries, roles, relationships, and the interactions between people in the system or its subsystems.

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ecological systems framework

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perspective with emphasis on understanding people and their environments and the nature of their transactions; major concepts of this orientation include goodness of fit between people and the envirnoment, reciprocity, and mutuality.

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strengths perspective

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view that emphasizes using clients' strengths, resources, support networks, and emoticions to meet challenges; the focus is on the clients' assets rather than problems or dysfunction.

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empowerment

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a psychological stat that reflects a sense of competence, control, and entitlement; allows one to pursue concrete activities aimed at becoming powerful; empowered clients have control over their environment, which makes it possible for them to improve their lives.

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diversity perspective

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theoretical framework that emphasizes the broad and varied differences of social workers and their clients and how these differences can enhance society.

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How does social work differ from other professionals? What makes social work unique?

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it focuses on both the person and the environment, this duality and the interaction between them.