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Psychology - correct answer ✔✔The field with which social work has the most overlap
60% - correct answer ✔✔The percentage of therapy provided by social workers.
Social work (NASW) - correct 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. Fundamental to social work is attention to
the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in living.
To help people become empowered in order to optimize their abilities and quality of life. -
correct answer ✔✔Social work (global definition)
Mental health, physical health, and family/children's services - correct answer ✔✔Most
common practice settings for direct practice social workers.
A degree in social work - correct answer ✔✔NASW requirement for being a social worker
BSW - correct answer ✔✔Prepares for generalist practice
MSW - correct answer ✔✔Prepares for specialist or advanced generalist practice
Ph.D. or DSW - correct answer ✔✔Prepares for research, teaching, or advanced clinical practice
,Religious institutions - correct answer ✔✔Origin of social work
"worthy" and "unworthy" - correct answer ✔✔Categories for those who were eligible or
ineligible for charity under the 1349 Statute of Laborers
The elderly and disabled - correct answer ✔✔Those who were considered "worthy" under the
1349 Statute of Laborers
Henrician Poor Law of 1536 - correct answer ✔✔Developed regulations for the collection of tax
revenue for social welfare
The unemployable poor (monetary aid), the employable poor (work), and orphaned and
dependent children (apprenticeships) - correct answer ✔✔Categories for those who received
social services under the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601, along with what each category
received
Protestant Work Ethic - correct answer ✔✔The idea that one should be self-sustaining through
hard work and not require assistance from others; often led to belief that social service
programs were immoral or unnecessary.
1657 - correct answer ✔✔Year of the founding of the first American social welfare agency and
the first almshouse
The end of the Civil War and increased immigration - correct answer ✔✔Causes of need for
social workers in the late 19th century
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - correct answer ✔✔Early social worker who helped found the NAACP
Indoor relief - correct answer ✔✔The provision of services in an institution such as a workhouse
or asylum
, Outdoor relief - correct answer ✔✔The provision of services in the community, outside the
confines of an institutional setting
Settlement House Movement - correct answer ✔✔Focused on serving the growing immigrant
population, proponents believed that social services must be provided by those immersed in
the community in need
Macro Practice - correct answer ✔✔Practice that focuses on improving environmental
conditions
Charity Organization Society Movement - correct answer ✔✔Movement that focused on
"friendly visiting", giving advice on how to live a "good and moral life" rather than "handouts" to
those living in poverty
Progressive Era - correct answer ✔✔Early 1900s, a time of reform in women's rights, health car,
social services, education, political practices, occupational and consumer safety, child and social
welfare laws, environmental preservation, and immigration
Progressives - correct answer ✔✔Group, including Jane Addams, that gained recognition for
their call to establish a federal social welfare infrastructure
The New Deal Era - correct answer ✔✔1930s, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
instituted federal programs to aid the one-third of Americans living in poverty
Social Security, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Aid to Dependent Children (now TANF)
- correct answer ✔✔Programs begun under the New Deal
The average lifespan of 65 years - correct answer ✔✔Reason for instituting the Social Security
retirement age as 65