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13 Cards in this Set
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Charity Organization Societies (COS)
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Efforts begun in the 1880s with the primary goals of learning what caused individual poverty and providing organized services to alleviate poverty; the emphasis of the oranization was on serving individuals and their families.
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Council on 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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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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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 environment, reciprocity, and mutuality.
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Empowerment
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A psychological state 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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General Systems Theory
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Explains the behavior of people and societies by identifying the components of subsystems of the larger (or host) system and analyzes how those 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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Macro Practice
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Changing the larger social environment so that it benefits individuals and families.
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Micro Practice
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Help individuals, families, and small groups function better within the larger environment.
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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 prfessional 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-perceptions, and expectations in their interactions with others and in the context of their surrounding environment.
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Self-Determination
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The value of respect for a client's own choices.
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Settlement Movement
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Organized social welfare efforts begun in the late 1800s to help people who were porr, particularly immigrants; the efforts included workers living within the community and providing services from their dwelling or settlement.
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Strengths Perspective
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View that emphasizes using clients' strengths, resources, support networks, and motivations to meet challenges; the focus in on clients' assets rather than problems or dysfunction.
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