Chapter 2

Question 1

social welfare

• definition
• includes governmental (3)
• allocation of resources

Answer 1

system used for helping people who are displaced (safety net)

• programs, services, institutions
• money, personnel, expertise

Question 2

examples of governmental

• programs
• services
• institutions

Answer 2

• meals on wheels, big brother
• adult edu
• children and youth bureau

Question 3

what impacts how a person thinks about policy issues

Answer 3

political, social, religious and economic ideologies

Question 4

public assistance

• paid for by
• ex

Answer 4

• government tax

- medicaid

Question 5

social insurance

• paid for by
• ex

Answer 5

• trusts not taxes

- medicaire, SS, unemployment insurance

Question 6

means testing

Answer 6

A method for determining whether someone qualifies for a financial-assistance program

Question 7

conservatives ideologies

Answer 7

1. people at top have worked hard, earned their success

2. people in distress have caused their own problems and should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps

Question 8

liberals ideologies

Answer 8

1. support a more robust safety net for poor people
2. support social intervention and change
3. want to distribute resources to poor

Question 9

social justice

• 3 things about what they do
• goals of advocacy (5)

Answer 9

• 1. protect human rights
     
     2. provide basic human needs
     3. motivates social workers to be advocates
• 1. fairness
     
     2. equality
     3. freedom
     4. service
     5. nonviolence

Question 10

mutual aid

Answer 10

community’s responsibility
-Refers to the cooperative ( as opposed in competitive) factors operating in a society involving the voluntary exchange of resource and service for mutual benefit

Question 11

poor laws of colonial america

• similar to
• 2 categories

Answer 11

• Elizabethan poor laws

- deserving and non deserving poor

Question 12

charity organization societies

• definition
• women associated

Answer 12

• individual factors related to poverty, friendly visitors
• improve organizations of social services
• mary richmond, jane addams formed Hull house

Question 13

mary richmond

• associated in which COS
• wrote first social book in
• introduced

Answer 13

• baltimore/philadephia COS
• 1917 - social diagnosis
• methodology, common body of knowledge

Question 14

goal of a generalist practice

Answer 14

address problematic interaction between person’s and their environment

Question 15

Elizabethan Laws

• definition
• deserving poor
• undeserving poor

Answer 15

gov decided that poor people need to be addressed by the community

• children, widows, senior citizens and disabled
• people who could work but don’t

Question 16

self determination

Answer 16

The right of people groups, and communities to make choice, design a course of action, and live as independently as possible- is stressed repeatedly

Question 17

ethnocentrism

Answer 17

Occurs when people believe their ethnic group and way of life are superior to others

Question 18

what coursework do generalists take?

• foundation of
• 6 basic course
• additional courses
• additional concepts

Answer 18

-Liberal arts foundation (sociology, psychology, biology, economics, political science, statistics)
-Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Social Work Research
Social Policy
Social Work Methods or Practice
Field Education
Electives
-Social work core values
Self-determination
Critical thinking

Question 19

absolute poverty

Answer 19

household income compared to nation’s income

Question 20

relative poverty

Answer 20

when people are poor relative to those around them

Question 21

• What programs were part of the Social Security Act in 1935?
• what was added to it later in the 1960s?

Answer 21

• social security and medicare

- food stamps, medicaid, headstart

Question 22

What are the 5 steps involved in the social work change process?

Answer 22

1. engagement
2. assessment
3. planning
4. implementation
5. evaluation

Question 23

income

Answer 23

the amount of money that a person received in return for his services.

Question 24

wealth

Answer 24

the net worth of a person, the total value of his assets minus his liabilities.

Question 25

social work roles

Answer 25

1. advocate 2. broker 3. case manager 4. counselor 5. mediator 6. navigator 7. researcher

Question 26

advocate

Answer 26

someone who speaks up for disempowered people

Question 27

broker

Answer 27

connects ind. to needed resources or services

Question 28

case manager

Answer 28

takes responsibility for coordinating things that is going on in his/her life

Question 29

counselor

Answer 29

uses one on one talk therapy to help create a rap-ore and relationship to help people with problems in life

Question 30

mediator - definition - ex

Answer 30

gets involved in situations of conflict | -child custody, impartial reference

Question 31

navigator

Answer 31

helps clients navigate through paperwork

Question 32

researcher

Answer 32

develops new knowledge of info to help people down the road

Question 33

engagement

Answer 33

forming relationship to elicit response from client

Question 34

assessment

Answer 34

takes a long look at persons life and try to come up with diagnosis

Question 35

implementation

Answer 35

carry out plan you created

Question 36

feminiztion of poverty

Answer 36

- 77 cents on the male dollar - Single & divorced mothers are more likely to be in poverty because they're more likely to be responsible for children

Question 37

patterns of income distribution and wealth disparity and the US

Answer 37

- Wealth more unequal than income | - Majority of wealth owned by about 10% of the population

Question 38

groups at risk of being poor

Answer 38

women, people of color, children, homeless people