SW 1000 Midterm Study Guide
Social Work ✔️✔️The professional activity of helping individuals/groups/communities enhance or
restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal
Social Welfare ✔️✔️A nation's systems of programs, benefits, and services that help people meet
their needs that are vital to the maintenance of society
Residual Perspective ✔️✔️Thinks social welfare focuses on problems and gaps, think that it's people's
own fault they need help, services should only be supplied when people fail to provide for themselves
Institutional Perspective ✔️✔️Views people's needs as a normal part of life, it's not their fault they
need help, society has a responsibility to to support its members and provide help
Developmental Perspective ✔️✔️People living in our complex world may require help and resources
in order to function effectively and support themselves, developed after WW2 in Third World countries
seeking to develop social welfare programs that would also enhance their economic development. An
example is investing in education to result in a more skilled labor force that thus results in a stronger
economy
Conservatism ✔️✔️the philosophy that individuals are responsible for themselves, government should
provide minimal interference in people's lives, and change does not necessarily mean improvement
Liberalism ✔️✔️The philosophy that government should be involved in the social, political, and
economic structure so that all people's rights and privileges are protected in the name of social justice
Radicalism ✔️✔️The philosophy that the social and political system as it stands is not structurally
capable of truly providing social justice and that drastic fundamental changes are necessary in the basic
social and political structure to achieve truly fair and equal treatment
NASW ✔️✔️National Association of Social Workers-professional organization
Code of Ethics (NASW) ✔️✔️4 primary facets:
, 1. Summarize social work's general goals and missions in the section where it talks about core values
2. purpose- six major aims
3. Ethical principles
4. Ethical standards
Core Values (Code of Ethics) ✔️✔️1. service
2. social justice
3. dignity and worth of the person
4. Importance of human relationships
5. Integrity
.6. Competence
Ethical Principles and Standards ✔️✔️Ethical principles section= based on the six core values and sets
standards toward which all SWers should strive toward.
The Ethical Standards section is the most extensive with 155 specific principles under six major
categories called Ethical Responsibilities
Ethical Responsibilities (under Ethical Standards section of the NASW Code of Ethics) ✔️✔️to: clients,
colleagues, in practice settings, as professionals, to the SW profession, and to the broader society
Marginalization ✔️✔️The condition of having less power and being viewed as less important than
others in the society because of belonging to some group or having some characteristics (racial,
economic, political, ethnic, whatever)
Oppression ✔️✔️putting extreme limitations and constraints on some person, group, or larger system
Discrimination ✔️✔️the act of treating people differently based on the fact that they belong to some
group, rather than on merit
Prejudice ✔️✔️a negative opinion or prejudgment about an individual, group, or issue that is not
based on fact
Social Work ✔️✔️The professional activity of helping individuals/groups/communities enhance or
restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal
Social Welfare ✔️✔️A nation's systems of programs, benefits, and services that help people meet
their needs that are vital to the maintenance of society
Residual Perspective ✔️✔️Thinks social welfare focuses on problems and gaps, think that it's people's
own fault they need help, services should only be supplied when people fail to provide for themselves
Institutional Perspective ✔️✔️Views people's needs as a normal part of life, it's not their fault they
need help, society has a responsibility to to support its members and provide help
Developmental Perspective ✔️✔️People living in our complex world may require help and resources
in order to function effectively and support themselves, developed after WW2 in Third World countries
seeking to develop social welfare programs that would also enhance their economic development. An
example is investing in education to result in a more skilled labor force that thus results in a stronger
economy
Conservatism ✔️✔️the philosophy that individuals are responsible for themselves, government should
provide minimal interference in people's lives, and change does not necessarily mean improvement
Liberalism ✔️✔️The philosophy that government should be involved in the social, political, and
economic structure so that all people's rights and privileges are protected in the name of social justice
Radicalism ✔️✔️The philosophy that the social and political system as it stands is not structurally
capable of truly providing social justice and that drastic fundamental changes are necessary in the basic
social and political structure to achieve truly fair and equal treatment
NASW ✔️✔️National Association of Social Workers-professional organization
Code of Ethics (NASW) ✔️✔️4 primary facets:
, 1. Summarize social work's general goals and missions in the section where it talks about core values
2. purpose- six major aims
3. Ethical principles
4. Ethical standards
Core Values (Code of Ethics) ✔️✔️1. service
2. social justice
3. dignity and worth of the person
4. Importance of human relationships
5. Integrity
.6. Competence
Ethical Principles and Standards ✔️✔️Ethical principles section= based on the six core values and sets
standards toward which all SWers should strive toward.
The Ethical Standards section is the most extensive with 155 specific principles under six major
categories called Ethical Responsibilities
Ethical Responsibilities (under Ethical Standards section of the NASW Code of Ethics) ✔️✔️to: clients,
colleagues, in practice settings, as professionals, to the SW profession, and to the broader society
Marginalization ✔️✔️The condition of having less power and being viewed as less important than
others in the society because of belonging to some group or having some characteristics (racial,
economic, political, ethnic, whatever)
Oppression ✔️✔️putting extreme limitations and constraints on some person, group, or larger system
Discrimination ✔️✔️the act of treating people differently based on the fact that they belong to some
group, rather than on merit
Prejudice ✔️✔️a negative opinion or prejudgment about an individual, group, or issue that is not
based on fact
