Flashcards (Chapter 1-4)!! 2024-2025.
Quizs & Ans. Graded A+
Ableism - ANS Is identified by Berg Weger, as a practice in
which people who do not have disabilities excluse and/or
oppress those who do.
ACSW - Ans The Academy of Certified Social Workers, which
designates membership into its organization.
Active Treatment - Ans Involved individualized plans for
training, therapy, and services to help acheive the highest
possible level of functioning.
Ageism - ANS Is the belief that youth is superior to age, that old
people have outlived their usefulness and therefore are of little
value.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) - ANS A fourth
category of people eligible for aid, the permanently and totally
disabled, was added in 1950.
Almshouse - Ans The impotent poor were to be either put into
an almshouse (indoor relief) or offered aid in their own homes
(outdoor relief), depending on which plan would be least
expensive to the parish.
Basic Professional Level - ANS Social worker who has been
prepared as a generalist and is able to engage in practice with
, individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
BSW - Ans Bachelors level of social work Career
Ladder - ANS Is constructed of the steps one must take to
progress upward and therefore to advance in a profession or
occupation.
Case Advocacy - Ans Attaining social and economic justice for
an individual
Cause Advocacy - Ans Attaining social and economic justice for
whole groups of people
Certification - Ans 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.
Competency - Ans 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.
Conservative - Ans The term conservative is derived from the
verb to conserve or to save, so it should come as no surprise
that people who are conservative want to preserve traditions;
preserving traditions for conservatives particularly necessitates
preserving and/or restoring the traditional free market
economic system. Conservative persons tend to be "haves" and