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Whatis Social Work? |
· Helping individual, group or communities to enhance social functions to create conditions favorable to this goal.
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What is the first goal and methods of social work ?
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· Linkpeople to resources
o Method:helpingclients locate resources they need to deal more effectively with theirsituations
o Advocate policies and services that provideoptimal benefits, improve communication among human service professionals
o Identifying gaps and barriers in social servicesthat need to be addressed
o Provide direct services to individuals, familiesand groups · fosterchanges that make organizational and social institutions more responsive tocitizens’’ needs(NASW 1981)
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What is the second goal and methods of social work ? |
· Enhancepeople’s capacities to resolve problems, cope, and function effectively
o Methods:practitionerasses obstacles to clients ability to function
o enhance clients’s sense of competence
o Identify resources and strengths
o Enhance skills for dealing with problems inliving
o Develop plans for solutions
o Support clients efforts to create changes intheir lives
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What is the third goal and methods of social work ? |
Improvingthe social service delivery network
o Methods:advocate planning that centers on clients ,demonstrates effectiveness andefficiency and incorpores measures ofaccountability.
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What is the fourth goal and method of social work?
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Promotingsocial justice through the development of social policy
o Methods:make suggestions for new policies and recommendations for eliminating policiesthat are no longer productive
o Translate general policies into programs andservices that respond effectively to participants’ needs.
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What is the best definition of Social Work?
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Enhancing human well-being and helping meet thebasic human needs of all people with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.
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What is thegoal of social work?
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Enhance clients’ sense of competence · Link them with resources · Foster changes that make organizations andsocial institutions more responsive to citizens needs. |
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What is empowerment?
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Empowerment means that individuals, families andcommunities develop capabilities toaccess personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical power.
· People feel worthy and competent or perceievepower or control
· Exersing psychological control over personalaffairs
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What organization accredits social work?
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· CSWE accredited program
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What professional social work has to have?
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Needs to graduate from a CSWE accredited program · Work in a variety of places o Nursing homes o Hospice series o Hospitals o Rape crisis centers o State/county government o State/county agencies o Mental health o Substance abuse agencies |
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What are the philosophical orgin of social work?
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· Relgious communiteis and teaching
o Early social welfare activities, charitiyorganization movement and the settlement house movement
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Who is Francis Perkins and what did she do?
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Teamed with Harry Hopkins provided leadership inthe public welfare movement
· First woman to be a member of the US president’scabinet
· Played a key role in the development of thesocial security act of 1935
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SettlementHouse movement
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Began in London in the late 19thcentury · Toynebee Hall:founded by Samuel Barnett o Recruited university students to live at thecenter and work with families in the neighborhood. · Stanton Coit started the first settlement housein NYC · Chicago Hull House: started by Jane Addams andEllen Gates Starr (1889) |
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What didthe settlement house movement do?
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· Combined social advocacy and social services torespond to the large influc of immigrants coming to America · Offered citizen training, adult education,counseling , recreation, intercultural exchange, day care · Supported legislative reforms to includechildwelfare, tenement housing, labor laws and public health and sanitation |
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Jane Addams
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· Started the Chicago’s hull house paired withEllen Gates Starr · Program grew include a young women’s boardingclub,day care, a community kitchen, a book bindery, and numerous educationalprograms and activities that promoted the arts. · Noted for her social activism and social reform ·
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What movments birthed social work? |
· Early social welfare activities o Charity organizations movement: directed atadimnstering social services through private charities o Settlement house movement: combined socialadvocacy and social services to respond to the large influx of immigrants |
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Who foundthe charity organization? |
S. Humphyreys Gurteen founded the US charityorganization society in 1877 in Buffalo, NY
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Roosevelt
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· Social security Act of 1935:The most importanctlegislation that was passed during the great depression under Roosevelt’s NewDeal · Roosevelt administration: changed the focus ofdirect aid from a prive to public responsibility and from a local to a federalfunction · Believed in the responbiltiy of human kind forthe well-being of others |
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DefineSocial Welfare:
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· Social welfare responds to the needs of societyand its member’s for health education and economic and social well being. |
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What did the Clinton Adminstration do?
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· Welfare reform act, aka Personal Responsibilityand Work Oppurtunity reconciliation act of 1996(PRWORA)passed. o Transformed welfare into state based programs with decreased federalsupport. |
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Whatdid Barack Obama Do?
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· Signed an economic stimulus bill; AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment act: included creating jobs alleviate property madeworse by the recession . |
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What didGerorge Bush do?
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· Promoted conservative policies to limit the roleof government and expand the role of proviate charities in providing socialservies. |
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What are Social Policy?
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· Principlals and courses of action that influencethe overall quality of life as well as the circumstances of indiviuals ingroups and their social relationship |
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What issocial policy process to form?
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· Identify problem that’s affecting · Define problem · Analyze · Provide information to public · Study alterntive solutions · Prepare initial policy statement · Develop supportive organization structures andpolitical relationships · Legitimize policy efforts · Construct the policy · Implement and asses |
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What is Liberalism
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· It supports social policies tat unholdfundamental human rights and social equality · Views welfare as a legitimate function of government and welfare provision as citizens’rights |
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Conservatism
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· Promotes a capitalistic free market economy andemphasizes traditional values, rugged indivualism, competition, localism andthe work ethic · Resist social change and strengthen exisitingsocial structutes. |
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Neoconservatives
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· Favor overturing liberal welfare programs andreforming welfare programs. · Advocate contaiing the growth of governmentprogramd and increase private secotr’s responsibility to address social welfareproblems |
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Radicalism
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· Traditional public welfare social welfare is anoppressive · Stigmatize program that regulates the poor o Ex: black panthers |
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What is Street level Bureauracies? |
· Governemental service secotr of social servicedelivery network · Services provided by schools, public healthclinics, law enforcement, public welfare, local courts |
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What is street level bureaucrats |
· Public workders such as welfare workders |
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Whatare street level clients>
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· People engage bureaucratic in services they areconsigned to a category that defines their identiy in the system o Welfare clients |
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What arethe different social service settings?
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· Public social services: state human resourcessuch as DCP&P, DMHAS, etc · Private social services- 501’s such as TheBridge. Funded by a voluntary initiative · Agencies:agencies are more common and delieverservices, · Associations: groups of people advancing acommon purpose for their members. Pimarily provide services for members · Sectarian: Sectarian refers to religiousafflication · Nonsectarian: Nonsectarian refers to secular sponsorship · Nonprofiit- Non profit means the agency has aservice motive.Non profit is a tax status · For profit:a portion of income isreturned to investors or share holders or used to increase bottom line. · Independent practice:Solo or group practice.Responsibilility for managind, collecting,and arranfing their own contracts forservices and liability insurance. |
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Where didsocial welfare come from?
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· Srang up in the US in the during the 19thcentury to address concerns about social issues |
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What is thedifference between Rural and Urban
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· Rural: emphzaise natural helping networks o Service tend to cluster in on area such ascounty seat o Public transportation nonexistent orinaccesiblie o Less professionals and scarity of formalresources · Urban: Overcrowded, poor housing, unemployement,substance abuse,poverty, shifting demographics o Decreased federal support for public planninginitiative eliminated many social planning activies o Can build coalition and work collaboratively toassist clients |
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Currentwrlfare programs
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· Old age surviors, disability health insurance o Older adults or workers with disabilities andsurviors · Temporary assistance for needy families o Assistance to families with children · SSI: o Old age assistance, o Aid to blind o Aid to permentatly and totally disabled · Genral Assiitance o Local programs that provide limited benefits · Patient protection and Afforable care act o Lays groundwork for universal healthcare · Snap: addresses hunger · Title XX: block grants to states for siclaservices for families who meet income guidelines. |
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What thedifference between medicare and Medicaid
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· Medicare: over 65 with disabilities and peoplewith end stage ranel disrease Mediciad:Provides medical assistance for low income familiesJointly funed by feder andstare |
