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Social Policy The activities and principles of a society that includes plans and programs in education, heath care, crime, and corrections, economic security and social welfare. Social Workers require knowledge of Social policy to fulfill their roles as social work professionals A Major Mission of Social Work Is to engage in social and political action, to help people meet their basic needs Social Workers are urged to Promote policies that safe guard the rights of and co...

Task-centered model major tenets 1. Aimed at reducing problems in living within a brief, time-limited period 2. Clients' identification of priority concerns and the collaborative relationship Task-centered model tasks 1. Assess client readiness for change 2. Brainstorm alternative tasks 3. Establish a reward or incentive 4. Identify time frame Task-centered model uses •Improves school performance, modifies behavior in residential facilities, and reduces sibling conflic...

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:...

invisible vs. visible identities invisible ex. gay/straight visible ex. gender, race The Isms racism, elitism/classism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, handicapism Herbert Spencer popularized 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 Sumner popularized social Darwinism in the U.S. •Combined Spencer's thoughts, laissez-fair...

Values Ideas about what we believe is preferable or ideal Standards to define good or bad General guidance for behavior A set of values becomes a value system Ethics Related to what we consider correct or right Generate standards of behavior "Values in action" Microethics guides direct practice macroethics guides organizations and social policy standards A requirement of moral conduct; rule used as basis for judgment Foundation of social work values...

Ore Reading 6: "Media Magic": Mantsios -Unline other cultural and socializing institutions, ownership and control of the mass media is highly concentrated. -The US is the most highly stratified society in the industrialized world. -Media ignores the poor -*"The poor are an eyesore"* Ore 20: The Return of "Separate but Equal": Kahlenberg -"Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" -More than 70% of black children now attend mostly minority schools ...

According to article #6, Media Magic, the poor are _____________. Eyesore T or F: Media seeks to have its audience identify with the poor. False T or F: The news media inverts reality so that those who are working class and middle class learn to fear, resent, and blame those below, rather than those above them in the class structure. True T or F: In article #20, The Return of "Separate but Equal", poor people of color are especially likely to wind up in schools filled w...

reciprocal interaction Two-way interaction between a person and the external world: the person acts upon and responds to the external world, and the quality of those actions affects the external world's reactions (and vice versa) Assessment Gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing information to provide a concise picture of the client and his or her needs and strengths Secondary or Host Settings A setting in which social work is not the only or not the primary profession, as when...

Reformed perspective of diversity and inequality Three Levels of Social Life: (Social) Structure, Culture, (Human) Agency Examples/Definitions of Each: 1 - (Social) Structure: SHAPES OPPORTUNITIES External factors outside of one's control that shape the lives of individuals ex: disasters, war, poverty, societal change 2 - Culture: (medium level): The ENTIRE way of life of a group of people that acts as a LENS through which one views the world - passed from one generation to ...

Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap Meizhu Lui -racial wealth gap has nothing to do with individual behaviors or cultural deficits, gov policies have transferred wealth from nonwhites to whites -federal policies created the basis for the current racial wealth divide -Native Americans-US took land and natural resources and gave it to white individuals -African Americans-wealth created from the unpaid labor of blacks, the use of violence to stop black wealth creation -Latinos-trade and imm...