SOWK 7310 Comprehensive Questions
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Generalist Practice - Answer: -Common knowledge base for all social workers
-Foundation courses prepare students for generalist practice
-Practitioners are prepared to:
--View problems holistically
--Plan interventions aimed at multiple levels of systems related to client concerns
Direct Practice - Answer: -The form of social work practice that involves direct client contact,
usually face-to-face, such as casework.
-Interpersonal skill set - applied at micro, mezzo, and macro levels
-"Clinical" social work
-State licensure requirements vary
Direct social work practice components - Answer: -hospital and health services
-mental health services
-disability services
-chemical and substance abuse services
-child, youth, and family services
-child welfare
-school social work
-work with aging clients
-work with immigrants
-housing or financial services
,Micro level practice - Answer: -includes individuals, couples, and families.
-designated as direct practice bc practitioners deliver services directly to clients in face-to-face
situations.
-not limited to face-to-face contact
Mezzo-level practice - Answer: -interface where the individual and those most immediate and
important to him/her meet.
-intervention is designed to change the systems that directly affect clients, such as family, peer
groups, or classroom
Macro level practice - Answer: -involves the processes of social planning and community
organization
-ex: work with citizen groups or with private, public, or governmental organizations
Mission of Social Work - Answer: to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human
needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who
are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty
Purpose of Social Work - Answer: -restorative: restore functioning that has been impaired
-remedial: elimination or amelioration existing social problems
-preventive: provision of services to promote social functioning
5 Roles of Direct Practitioners - Answer: 1. Direct services functions
2. System linkage functions
3. System maintenance and enhancement functions
4. research/evaluation functions
5. System development functions
, Direct services functions - Answer: -Individual caseworker, therapist, or counselor
-Couples and/or family therapist
-Group work service provider/therapist
-Educator/disseminator of information
System linkage functions - Answer: -Broker
-Case manager/care coordinator
-Mediator/arbitrator
-Client advocate
System maintenance and enhancement functions - Answer: -Organizational analyst
-Facilitator/expediter
-Team member - often Interdisciplinary
-Consultant/consultee
-Supervisor
research/evaluation functions - Answer: -Researcher: Principal or Co-principal Investigator
-Research team member
-Research participant
-Research Consumer
-Practice Evaluator
System development functions - Answer: -Program developer
-Planner
-Policy (and procedure) developer
(Frequently Tested) with Verified
Answers
Generalist Practice - Answer: -Common knowledge base for all social workers
-Foundation courses prepare students for generalist practice
-Practitioners are prepared to:
--View problems holistically
--Plan interventions aimed at multiple levels of systems related to client concerns
Direct Practice - Answer: -The form of social work practice that involves direct client contact,
usually face-to-face, such as casework.
-Interpersonal skill set - applied at micro, mezzo, and macro levels
-"Clinical" social work
-State licensure requirements vary
Direct social work practice components - Answer: -hospital and health services
-mental health services
-disability services
-chemical and substance abuse services
-child, youth, and family services
-child welfare
-school social work
-work with aging clients
-work with immigrants
-housing or financial services
,Micro level practice - Answer: -includes individuals, couples, and families.
-designated as direct practice bc practitioners deliver services directly to clients in face-to-face
situations.
-not limited to face-to-face contact
Mezzo-level practice - Answer: -interface where the individual and those most immediate and
important to him/her meet.
-intervention is designed to change the systems that directly affect clients, such as family, peer
groups, or classroom
Macro level practice - Answer: -involves the processes of social planning and community
organization
-ex: work with citizen groups or with private, public, or governmental organizations
Mission of Social Work - Answer: to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human
needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who
are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty
Purpose of Social Work - Answer: -restorative: restore functioning that has been impaired
-remedial: elimination or amelioration existing social problems
-preventive: provision of services to promote social functioning
5 Roles of Direct Practitioners - Answer: 1. Direct services functions
2. System linkage functions
3. System maintenance and enhancement functions
4. research/evaluation functions
5. System development functions
, Direct services functions - Answer: -Individual caseworker, therapist, or counselor
-Couples and/or family therapist
-Group work service provider/therapist
-Educator/disseminator of information
System linkage functions - Answer: -Broker
-Case manager/care coordinator
-Mediator/arbitrator
-Client advocate
System maintenance and enhancement functions - Answer: -Organizational analyst
-Facilitator/expediter
-Team member - often Interdisciplinary
-Consultant/consultee
-Supervisor
research/evaluation functions - Answer: -Researcher: Principal or Co-principal Investigator
-Research team member
-Research participant
-Research Consumer
-Practice Evaluator
System development functions - Answer: -Program developer
-Planner
-Policy (and procedure) developer
