SOCIAL WORK COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM
Social Work
The professional activity of helping individuals, families, groups, organizations, or communities to
enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and for creating societal conditions local and
global favorable to this goal
Dependent variables
Variable being explained or caused
Independent variables
Variable that explains or causes
Planned Change Process
1.Engagement
2.Assessment
3.Planning
4.Implementation
5.Evaluation
6.Termination
7.Follow up
Engagement
Establishing a relationship between the client and the worker foundation of trust with client (counselor)
Assessment
Trying to figure out what the problem is.(investigating & determining what is affecting identified
issues/problem in all levels. (broker)
Planning
Specifies what should be done
Implementing
Actual doing of the plan
Evaluation
Establishing if the intervention is working or not. you determine if the goals are met
Termination
End of professional social worker- client relationship
Follow-Up
, Check back in on them and decide whether to cut off contact or to be a broker to them and get them
the help they need
Values
Reflect what you consider to be right/wrong
Micro, Mezzo, Macro
Individual, Groups, Communities & Organizations
Research-Informed Practice
Social work practice based on empirical evidence. framing social work interventions so that they can be
evaluated through research
Practice-Informed Research
Refers to scientific investigation designed to attain results related to successful social work practice.
Qualitative Research
"Story-like"
Quantitative Research
numbers, charts, visual data
How are social policies created?
1. Formulation
2. Legislation
3. Implementation
4. Evaluation
Ethics
Rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad
Person-In-Environment
PIE perspective focuses on seeing people, as they interact with the systems around them
Six Major Societal Institutions
Friends, family, work, religion, politics, educational systems
Human Diversity
Variation among peoples individual and social dimensions of identity, family, and community
ex. age, race, gender, religion, class, political party
Institutional Discrimination
EXAM
Social Work
The professional activity of helping individuals, families, groups, organizations, or communities to
enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and for creating societal conditions local and
global favorable to this goal
Dependent variables
Variable being explained or caused
Independent variables
Variable that explains or causes
Planned Change Process
1.Engagement
2.Assessment
3.Planning
4.Implementation
5.Evaluation
6.Termination
7.Follow up
Engagement
Establishing a relationship between the client and the worker foundation of trust with client (counselor)
Assessment
Trying to figure out what the problem is.(investigating & determining what is affecting identified
issues/problem in all levels. (broker)
Planning
Specifies what should be done
Implementing
Actual doing of the plan
Evaluation
Establishing if the intervention is working or not. you determine if the goals are met
Termination
End of professional social worker- client relationship
Follow-Up
, Check back in on them and decide whether to cut off contact or to be a broker to them and get them
the help they need
Values
Reflect what you consider to be right/wrong
Micro, Mezzo, Macro
Individual, Groups, Communities & Organizations
Research-Informed Practice
Social work practice based on empirical evidence. framing social work interventions so that they can be
evaluated through research
Practice-Informed Research
Refers to scientific investigation designed to attain results related to successful social work practice.
Qualitative Research
"Story-like"
Quantitative Research
numbers, charts, visual data
How are social policies created?
1. Formulation
2. Legislation
3. Implementation
4. Evaluation
Ethics
Rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad
Person-In-Environment
PIE perspective focuses on seeing people, as they interact with the systems around them
Six Major Societal Institutions
Friends, family, work, religion, politics, educational systems
Human Diversity
Variation among peoples individual and social dimensions of identity, family, and community
ex. age, race, gender, religion, class, political party
Institutional Discrimination
