LATEST UPDATE 2026
Ethical principals - Answers Service, social justice, dignity and worth of a person, importance of
human relationships, integrity, and competence.
Competency 1 - Answers Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior
Competency 2 - Answers Engage diversity and difference in practice
Competency 3 - Answers Advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.
Competency 4 - Answers Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice.
Competency 5 - Answers Engage in policy practice
Competency 6 - Answers Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
Competency 7 - Answers Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
Competency 8 - Answers Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
Competency 9 - Answers evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and
communities
Competency 10 - Answers Integrate Faith in practice of Social work
Dignity and worth of a person - Answers Holding people in high esteem and appreciating individual
value
Importance of Human relationships - Answers Valuing the emotional exchange; dynamic interaction;
and affective, cognitive, and behavioral connections that exist between the social worker and the
client to create the working and helping atmosphere.
Integrity - Answers Trustworthiness and sound adherence to moral ideals
Competence - Answers having the necessary skills and abilities to perform work with clients
effectively
Service - Answers The provision of help, resources and benefits so people may achieve their
maximum potential.
Social Justice - Answers All people should have the same basic rights, protection, opportunities,
obligations, and social benefits
Enabler - Answers Helps individuals or groups to articulate their needs, clarify and identify their
problems, explore resolution strategies, selects and apply a strategy, and develop their capacities to
deal with problems more effectively.
Mediator - Answers Involves intervention in disputes between parties to help them find
compromises, reconcile differences, or reach mutually satisfactory agreements.
General Manager - Answers involves assuming some level of administrative responsibility for a social
services agency or other organizational system.
Educator - Answers gives information and teaches skills to other systems
Analyst/evaluator - Answers determines effectiveness of a program or agency
Broker - Answers links any size system (individuals, groups, organizations, or communities) with
community resources and services.
Facilitator - Answers guides a group experience
Initiator - Answers calls attention to an issue - a problem, need or situation that can be improved
Advocate - Answers An active intervention on a client system's behalf to get needed resources that
are currently unavailable or to change regulations or policies that negatively affect that client system.
Empowerer - Answers Helping individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities increase
their personal, interpersonal, socioeconomic, and political strength and influence.
Public Speaker - Answers Talk to groups to inform them of available services or argue the need for
new services.
Counselor - Answers Aids in problem solving and enhancing quality of life.
Social workers are therapists, career counselors, etc.