Social Work
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- Dignity and worth of the person (value)
- social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person (ethics)
- Mary Richmond
- leader of the charity organization society was among the original faculty the school is now known as the Columbia University School of Social Work
- ecosystems perspective
- a perspective that maintains simultaneous focus on person and environment and is attentive to their interactions and adaptions person-environment
- Ethics
- behaviors prescribed by values
- Abraham Flexner
- addressed the 1915 national conference of charities and correction. their critique of the medical profession was renowned for dramatically improving the profession's status and quality of care. Also made the pronouncement that social work was not yet a real profession.
- 8 content areas of BSW
- values andd ethics, diversity, populations-at-risk and social and economic justice, human behavior and the social environment, social welfare policies and services, social work practice, research, field education
- Social Justice (value)
- Social workers challenge social injustice (ethics)
- Importance of human relationships (value)
- social workers behave in a trustworthy manner (ethics)
- competence (value)
- social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise (ethics)
- elizabethean poor law
- government system to meet the needs of the poor
- Service (value)
- Social workers primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems (ethics)
- interrvention process
- engaging the client system, identifying and defining important issues, gathering and assessing data, identifying plans of action, contracting, implementing plans of action, evaluating outcomes, terminating
- Values
- preferred ways of believing
- Jane Addams
- established hull house in chicago in 1889 and advocated for better working conditions and protective legislation through various government bodies
- Professional roles of a social worker
- counselor, advocate, broker, case manager,educator, facilitator, and organizer