MORRIS SOWK 250- FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS FULLY SOLVED & UPDATED 2023.

Values • Ideas about what we believe is preferable or ideal • Standards to define good or bad • General guidance for behavior Ethics • Related to what we consider correct or right • Generate standards of behavior • "Values in action" Microethics • Guides direct practice Macroethics • Guides organizations and direct policy Standards • A requirement of moral conduct; rule used as basis for judgment Service •SW Value • Principle: Help people in need social justice •SW Value • Principle: Challenge social injustice dignity and worth of the person •SW Value • Principle: Respect the inherent dignity and worth of all Importance of human relationships •SW Value • Principle: Recognize central importance of human relationships Integrity •SW Value • Principle: Behave in a trustworthy manner competence •SW Value • Principle: Practice within area of competence; develop and enhance expertise social work values reflect • Commitment to quality of life for all • Change • Social justice • Intrinsic dignity and worth of humans social workers are responsible • To clients • As professionals • To colleagues • To the social work profession • In practice settings • To the broader society When was the NASW Code of Ethics written? • 1947 - first adopted; 2018 - latest update NASW Code of Ethics 2018 • "The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty" Utilitarianism • Connects to Darwin "greatest good for the greatest number" (p. 136) • Some will have needs met others will not Libertarianism • individual liberty • Right to choose own path • Unregulated capitalist society Egalitarianism • All should have equal access to resources and opportunities Opression • Resulting from the imbalance of power between the identified majority population and groups with minority status, oppression denies minority groups access to opportunities and resource and limits participation in society. Dehumanization • By regarding others with cold detachment and showing indifference to human misery, dehumanization obscures the inherent worth and dignity of personhood. Victimazation • Ascribing blame and victim status confers perceptions of helplessness, powerlessness, and alienation. learned helplessness • a state that occurs after a person has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly. They come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try — even when opportunities for change become available Individual View of poverty • Blaming individuals for impoverishment • Believing that changing people will eliminate poverty structural view of poverty • Recognizes structural issues that are responsible for poverty, emphasizing the lack of job and educational opportunities and institutional discrimination. Marginality • Minority group wants to be accepted but not accepted by the dominant group. Assimilation • Minority group integrates into dominant group. • Persons from minority group become less distinguishable from the other members of the group as a whole Accommodation • Stable coexistence within society acculturation • Minorities adopt attitudes, values, and norms of the dominant cult. retaining some behavior and social patterns from a cultural or ethnic group For-Profit • A portion of the earned income is returned to investors, shareholders, or used to increase organizational fund balances (money left over after they handle all of their responsibilities). Nonprofit • Agency has a service motive rather than a profit motive-- refers to tax status and does not prevent generating income and accumulating investments. Agencies • Organizations that actually deliver social services (more common for the field of social workers). Social work agency • Principally offer social services-- the services they offer directly relate to the mission of the organization host agency • Offer social work services as adjuncts to their organizational purposes-- social service components compliment, support, or enhance the mission of the host institution. (Example: Schools, Hospitals, Courts). Herbert Spencer • Social Darwinism • Survival of the fittest: Believed that helping lower class interfered with the natural process of selection in which society improves over time William Graham Sumner • Popularized social Darwinism in the U.S. • Combined , laissez-fair economics, and the Protestant work ethic • Nature rewards those who are most fit • Government interventions can upset nature's balance Blaming the victim • Environmental cause of poverty but still see faults on individual • Focuses on changing the victim Critical Race Theory • A foundation of for multicultural practice that focuses on structural forces that perpetuate racism. Standpoint Theory • A foundation for multicultural practice that takes into account that we perceive and interpret the world from our own social location. Advocacy • Purposeful action taken on behalf of others Advocacy • Informs policy and is seen as mandate of the profession informed consent • When providing social work services using technology, social workers needs to tell the client of relevant benefits and risks. Self-determination • A client has the right to make their own choices about their lives why is providing social work electronically risky? • potential for failure and interruption of services • potential for confidentiality breaches • potential for unauthorized use or unethical purposes • high cost Dual Relationship • A relationship a social worker might have with a client or former client outside the professional or therapeutic relationship. What is the policy on dual relationships on social media? • should take reasonable steps to prevent client access to social workers' personal social networking sites and should not post personal information on professional websites, blogs, or other forms of social media, to avoid boundary confusion and inappropriate relationships. Social Media Policies • informs clients regarding their social worker's professional use of social networking sites, e-mail, text messaging, electronic search engines, smartphone applications, blogs, business review sites, and other forms of electronic communication. Confidentiality • A client has right to privacy—except when a threat to self or others or abuse