Contemporary Clinical Practice Philosophy

Question 1

Continued: ethical issues

Answer 1

Within the code of ethics, there is also a commitment to confront discrimination in several identified areas: race, ethnicity, national origin, mental status, political beliefs, religion, and mental or physical disability

Question 1

Ethical issues

Answer 1

Social workers ethical decisions are influence in framed by their personal values and morals virtue

Question 2

Casework

Answer 2

Case work, a term for work with an individual, became the predominant practice method. That includes functional, problem-solving, psycho, behavioral, and crisis intervention approaches. (Thomas, 1967)

Question 3

Clinical social work

Answer 3

Clinical social worker is rooted in the social keys, work practice tradition that emerged as a specialization due to a
“ reaction to the social work profession, minimization of direct practice.. and a shift that turned it into a sissy. Community organization is social policy. (Goldstein, 2007)

Question 4

Group work

Answer 4

The faculty of western reserve university initially used to turn group work in 1927 to describe the method that is defined as “ goal directed activity with small groups of people directed at meeting, social emotional needs and accomplishing task (Toseland & Rivas, 2001)

Question 5

The origins of group service

Answer 5

Group services were initiated in the mid 19th century at the YMCA and later the YWCA. This met it was widely identified with the settlement houses during the late 19th century and early 20th centuries.

Question 6

The beginnings of therapy in group work

Answer 6

The use of therapy in groups begin in the early 1920s with the ascendancy of individual responsibility for problems as distinct from social accountability and responsibility

Question 7

Community organization

Answer 7

Efforts for community organizations, inclusion in the profession started as early, but it was not until 1962 that a comprehensive report on the definition of this mess. It was presented at NASW.

Question 8

Community development

Answer 8

Community development has been pivotal part of the rebuilding of the US communities for some time, it was particularly effective after the depression

Some programs included works public administration (wpa), Tennessee valley authority (TVA, civilian conservation corporation (CCC)

Question 9

Community development, and African-Americans

Answer 9

Community development became an effective method used by African-American leaders after the period of civil unrest in the 1960s to aid in the restoration of both urban and rule communities

Question 10

Continued: Community development, and African-Americans

Answer 10

Community development corporation’s (CDCs) grew out of initiatives of African-Americans across the country, who wanted an improve quality of life, and who understood that they would have to engage in community organization to make a difference in their own communities

Question 11

Social planning

Answer 11

Planning has been, and remains a significant component of community organization, although it has been an important macro method on its own

Question 12

Policy practice

Answer 12

Policy is considered a problem-solving process.. policy practice is directed towards a change in larger systems. Like other methods, it is based on a systematic body of knowledge, methods and skills.

Question 13

Ethnic-sensitive in practice

Answer 13

Based on an ethnocultural model, the ethnic sensitive practice model suggests that certain core concepts, ethnicity, socioeconomic class and oppression, or integrate it within an organizing schema of intervention principles

(Anderson,2003)

Question 14

Research in practice

Answer 14

Evidence (or empirically) based (EBP) in the meantime, has become the gold standard to judge social work practice ( Thyer, 2004)

Question 15

Chapter 7- Strengths perspective (Dulmus & Sowers P. 163)

Answer 15

All humans are, at some level, driven by the urge to be heroic: to transcend their condition, to develop their powers, to overcome adversity, to stand up, and to be counted, to be part of some thing that surpasses the petty interest of self to shape and realize, vibrant hopes and dreams

Question 16

Transcendentalism and the social gospel

Answer 16

P.166

Question 17

How social work and strengths a rose

Answer 17

Social were traditionally, has nodded to the idea of strength, and building on the strength of people, although rarely elucidating, that means by which this can be accomplished

Question 18

Something to consider with regard to a strength based approach

Answer 18

Allegiance to a strength based approach, does not call for you to unthinkingly, ignore or turn away from the genuine pains, and or deals that confront children, groups, families, and communities

Question 19

Relationship factors

Answer 19

Carl Rogers, believe that a strong therapeutic relationship, one that foster motivation and change was based on the therapists capacity for genuineness, accurate empathy, and a non-judgmental stance, among others

Question 20

Principles of the strengths

Answer 20

A perspective is not a theory. Hey Siri purports to explain some phenomenon or at least to parse it analytically. It is not a model, models are meant to represent some aspect of the world, logically and graphically.

A perspective is a standpoint, a way of getting into experience and understanding it

Question 21

Client collaboration

Answer 21

We make an egregious mistake when we suppress clients, wisdom, knowledge, and viewpoints with the institutional weight of our own.

-* There is something freeing about inviting clients stories, narratives and Stan points to the forefront and letting our own protocols and accounts receipt into the background

Question 22

Some common classes of strength

Answer 22

What follows is a short list of capacities and resources that people may develop and/or discover as they confront troubles and endure suffering:

Personal qualities, traits, and virtues that people possess

What people know about the world around them

The talents that people have

Cultural and personal stories, and Lore are often rich sources of guidance

The community

Spirituality

(P.180-182)

Question 23

Chapter 10-contemporary issues in social work

Answer 23

To label something a social work issues, suggest an unresolved matter germaine to the profession that merits attention.

Issues do not exist in a vacuum and are often interdependent sharing, for instance, assumptions, or believes

Question 24

Globalization

Answer 24

Globalization is the interdependencies among economic, political, environmental, cultural and technological spears of change in social work landscape.. many of the local conditions that social worker seek to ameliorate are linked to global trends and actions

** The term globalization is often used to explain these trains and actions. It has multiple meanings.

Question 25

Postmodernism

Answer 25

Post-modernism —-the word suggest some thing that came after or is different from, modernism a term usually associated with ideas from a period in history, known as enlightenment (roughly the 18th century)

Enlightenment, emerged in in Europe as a reaction to the authority of the church and the power of the aristocracy

Question 26

Continued: enlightenment

Answer 26

Enlightenment, thinking, was characterized by the Believe, in reason as a path to progress in the perfection of man

Question 27

Continued:postmodernism

Answer 27

Postmodernism represents disillusionment with these believes, rejects, “ metanarratives” (,overarching believes or stories about history or humanit that are assume to be universal in true) such as the inevitable March to work progress

** deposits, multiple ways of knowing that are local and changing

Question 28

Social construction

Answer 28

Within social work, postmodernism is most often associated with social construction (Danto, 2008).
Both social work and social construction highlighted, the word social and their names, although not used identically.

Look up social construction?

Question 29

CHP 3- CONTINUED

Group Work

Answer 29

Relief was not the focus of the settlement houses- reform was the goal.

Settlement houses workers, however, were excluded from professional social work as the casework method became dominant.

Question 30

Purpose of Social Work

Answer 30

social work is always concerned with the same aspect, namely, the lessening of social stress and the Improvement of social functioning ( Bartlett, 1961, p. 11)

Question 31

Social Works relation to biological and social sciences

Answer 31

traditionally, social work has undergirded many of its theoretical approaches from knowledge generated by the biological psychological and social sciences. these fields contribute knowledge and empirically derived research findings that are both important and relevant to the profession.

Question 32

biological sciences

Answer 32

important advances in biological sciences are providing new knowledge so that the ”bio” part of the biopsychosocial can be strengthened findings and cognitive neuroscience and neurobiology are available for integration with other psychosocial theories of human behavior that have been used in practice

Question 33

social sciences

Answer 33

How and why are questions social sciences attempt to answer through study and Analysis.

they provide much of the raw material often used in human behavior and social environment (HBSE) course where BSW and MSW social work programs house a considerable segment of theory.

Question 34

Conceptual framework of practice

Answer 34

NASW’s Editorial board and the publication committee planned a conference in the mid 1970s to consider purpose and activities and what, if any consensus could be developed related to all the profession specialties (Brieland & Korr, 2000)

Questions that were addressed:
What is the mission of social work?
What are social works objectives?
What sanctions should social workers have?