The Social Work Experience Chapter
Flashcards (Chapter 1-4) Exam Study Guide.
Dimension of Competency Vaules - answer✔Social workers recognize personal and the
distinction between personal and professional values.
BSW - answer✔Bachelors level of social work
MSW - answer✔Master level of social work
PhD - answer✔Doctorate degree level of social work
Qualitative Research - answer✔Gathering data from interviews
Quanitative Research - answer✔To use statistical, numerical data gathering and analysis to arrive
at valid, reliable conclusions.
Case Advocacy - answer✔Attaining social and economic justice for an individual
Cause Advocacy - answer✔Attaining social and economic justice for whole groups of people
Career Ladder - answer✔Is constructed of the steps one must take to progress upward and
therefore to advance in a profession or occupation.
Preprofessional - answer✔At the lowest rung of the ladder, and also known as a paraprofessional
or human service aide.
Basic Professional Level - answer✔Social worker who has been prepared as a generalist and is
able to engage in practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Legal Regulation - answer✔Refers to governmental authority for the practice of selected
professions and occupations. Today doctors, pharmacists, and dentists are liscenced by the states
in which they practice.
Certification - answer✔Protects the title social worker, it doesn't prohibit uncertified people from
practicing social work. Uncertified people simply may not legally call themselves social workers.
Certification is not considered to be as strong a form of legal regulation as licensure.
Licensure - answer✔Certification is not considered to be as strong a form of legal regulation as
licensure, which legally restricts the practice of social work to persons who meet the state
requirements.
ACSW - answer✔The Academy of Certified Social Workers, which designates membership into
its organization.
DCSW - answer✔Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, and it is the highest level of clinical
practice authorized by the NASW.
Summary of Chapter 1 - answer✔"The social work profession is described. Social work is
defined, as it is a profession that is often misunderstood. It is a profession that has clearly
identified values and a code of ethics that flows
Active Treatment - answer✔Involved individualized plans for training, therapy, and services to
help acheive the highest possible level of functioning.
Community Placement - answer✔????
Family Care Homes - answer✔????
Ecosystems Perspective - answer✔Encourages social workers to maintain simultaneous focus on
person and environment. The concept of environment is virtually synonymous with the concept
of a large system in systems theory; person is simply an example of a small or sub-system.
The Generalist Approach - answer✔The general approach to social work practice is strongly
routed in systems theory and it's descendant, the ecosystems perspective. This approach involves
attention to multiple levels of intervention.
Levels of Intervention - answer✔The term level, as used in this context, is virtually synonymous
with the term system.
Intervention Process - answer✔It is sometimes referred to as the problem-solving or planned
change process, but in this text we will use the terminology intervention process.
Competency - answer✔The ability to integrate and apply the profession's knowledge, values, and
skills to practice situations in a purposeful, intentional, and professional manner to promote
human and community well-being.
Ableism - answer✔Is identified by Berg Weger, as a practice in which people who do not have
disabilities excluse and/or oppress those who do.
Intersectionality - answer✔The intersectionality of multiple factors impacting poverty can
greatly increase the overall risk.
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