Social Work Licensure Preparation Chapter Review

Comprehensive practice flashcards covering the foundation, history, methods, models, and current legislation related to Social Work in the Philippines, based on the Chapter 1-10 lecture notes.

Social Welfare (Gertrude Wilson)

The organized concern of all people for all people.

Social Welfare (Walter Friedlander)

The organized system of social services and institutions, designed to aid individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health.

Social Welfare (Elizabeth Wickenden)

Includes those laws, programs, benefits and services which assure or strengthen provision for meeting social needs recognized as basic to the wellbeing of the population and the better functioning of the social order.

Residual Formulation

A view of social welfare where it is considered temporary and offered only during emergency situations.

Institutional Formulation

A view of social welfare as a proper, legitimate function of modern society.

Social Security

A whole set of compulsory measures instituted to protect the individual and his family against the consequences of unavoidable interruption, such as Philhealth, SSS, and PAG-IBIG.

Personal Social Services

Service functions having a major bearing upon personal problems, including counseling, elderly services, and psychological services.

Public Assistance

Material or concrete aids and supports provided usually by government agencies to people who have no income or means of support, such as 4P's and Social Pension.

Richard M. Titmus

Sees social problems as structural and considers social services as partial compensation for socially generated disservices and socially-caused diswelfare.

Social Functioning

The result from the performance of a person's various social roles in society.

Restoration of Impaired Capacity

One of the three functions of social work defined by the US Council on Social Work Education.

Dato

The head man of a pre-historic barangay responsbile for overseeing the welfare of members, functioning as an arbiter of conflict, and leading in times of danger.

Don Miguel Lopez de Legaspi

Founder of the first hospital established in Cebu City, Philippines in $1565$.

Hospitalito de Sta. Ana

The hospital founded in Manila in $1571$, later renamed Sternberg General Hospital, from which San Lazaro Hospital and San Juan de Dios Hospital are reported to have originated.

San Lazaro Hospital

Known for housing Filipino beggars, it became a hospital for lepers in $1631$ after the arrival of $150$ lepers from Japan.

Hospicio de San Jose

Founded in $1882$ for boys, it housed the aged, orphans, mentally defective, and young boys requiring reform.

Asilo de San Vicente de Paul

An asylum founded in $1885$ for girls, known for good management and the training and discipline given to its wards.

Insular Board

Created in $1902$ to coordinate and supervise private institutions engaged in welfare work.

Public Welfare Board

Created in $1915$ via Legislative Act $2510$ to coordinate the welfare activities of various existing charitable organizations.

Associated Charities of Manila

Founded in $1917$ by civic-spirited Americans and Filipinos, it was the first to use casework as a method and is considered the mother of the social work profession in the Philippines.

Josefa Jara Martinez

The worker who introduced the scientific approach in social work to the Public Welfare Board and obtained her diploma from the New York School of Social Work.

Frank Murphy

The Governor General whose administration marked the first time the government assumed full responsibility for the relief of the distressed and designated the Associated Charities as the Insular Relief Agency.

Social Welfare Commission (SWC)

Established on October $4$, $1947$ and placed under the Office of the President, signifying the recognition of social welfare as a state responsibility.

PACSA

The President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration, created in August $1948$ to give relief assistance to the hungry, homeless, and sick.

Social Welfare Administration (SWA)

Formed on January $3$, $1951$ by the merger of the Social Welfare Commission and PACSA.

Republic Act 4373

Passed in $1965$, this act is considered the formal recognition of social work as a profession in the Philippines.

Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD)

The name of the Department of Social Welfare starting September $8$, $1976$, which shifted emphasis to institution-based welfare and the bottom $30\%$ of the population.

SPDEFS

A package of programs consisting of Self-employment assistance, Practical skills development, Day care, Emergency assistance, Family planning, and Special services.

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)

The national poverty reduction strategy and human capital investment codified by RA No. $11310$ in $2019$.

Magna Carta of the Poor

RA No. $11291$, enacted in $2019$ to uplift the standard of living of the poor.

Universal Health Care Act

RA No. $11223$, enacted in $2019$, guaranteeing equitable access to quality and affordable health care for all Filipinos.

Magna Carta of Women

RA No. $9710$, enacted in $2009$, seeking to eliminate discrimination against women by recognizing and promoting their rights.

Prohibition of Child Marriage Law

RA No. $11596$, enacted in $2021$, imposing penalties for facilitating or solemnizing child marriage.

The Centenarian Act of 2016

RA No. $10868$, honoring Filipinos who reach $100$ years old with a Letter of Felicitation and a gift of $P100,000$.

Bayanihan to Recover as One Act

RA No. $11494$, enacted in $2020$ to provide the Social Amelioration Package (SAP) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mandanas-Garcia Ruling

Resulted in an increase in local government's share of Internal Revenue Allotment from $40\%$ to $60\%$ (full devolution).

PASWI

The Philippine Association of Social Workers Inc., founded on November $12$, $1947$.

NASWEI

The National Association for Social Work Education, Inc., formerly known as the Schools of Social Work Association of the Philippines (SSWAP).

Tested Knowledge

Knowledge established through scientific study (research).

Hypothetical Knowledge

Knowledge that has yet to undergo transformation into tested knowledge but may tentatively explain certain facts.

Assumptive Knowledge

Knowledge also referred to as practice wisdom.

Regulative Code of Ethics

A built-in code, partly formal and partly informal, that compels ethical behavior among the members of a profession.

Smooth Interpersonal Relations (SIR)

A facility at getting along with others to avoid outward signs of conflict, achieved through pakikisama, euphemism, and go-betweens (tulay).

Personalism

A Filipino value attaching major importance to personal factors like kinship and friends to guarantee warmth and security in getting things done.

Acceptance

A social work principle involving the recognition of people as they are, including their strengths, weaknesses, and limitations.

Self-determination

A client's right to decide what their needs are and how they should be met; this right is relative, not absolute.

Confidentiality

A principle providing protection to the client from harm resulting from divulging information to the worker within legal limits.

Ambivalence

The concept that the human mind functions in a dualistic way, necessitating worker self-awareness in responses.

Transference

When a client consciously transfers attributes or characteristics of powerful persons from their early life to the social worker.

Counter-transference

The worker's unconscious response to the client's unconscious transference.

Human Behavior and Social Environment (HBSE)

An area concerned with understanding the client in their problem situation and the dynamics of individual, group, and community processes.

Environmental Modification

A casework technique aimed at changing the environment in the client's favor.

Insight Development

A casework technique where current and past emotions must be re-lived in a therapeutic atmosphere.

Community Organization (Murray G. Ross)

A process by which a community identifies its needs, ranks goals, finds resources, and takes action.

Social Welfare Administration

The management of public and private social agencies to achieve the full effect of services for helping human beings.

Strengths Perspective

An approach emphasizing resilience, courage, and ingenuity, maintaining that the client is not the problem.

APIET

The five steps in the social work helping process: Assessment, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation, and Termination.

Presenting Problem

A threat to welfare stated or presented as the client perceives or experiences it.

Partialization

The process of separating specific problems to be addressed first from a multitude of issues identified by the client.

Interventive Roles

The composite of activities expected from a worker, including Resource provider, Social broker, Mediator, Advocate, Enabler, and Counselor.

Referral

Directing a client to another worker or agency because the required service is beyond the present worker's competence or agency's resources.

Direct Provision Model (Leonard Schneiderman)

Enhancement of social functioning through the systematic provision of material aid to reduce situational inadequacies.

Crisis Intervention Approach (Naomi Golan)

Actively influencing psychosocial functioning during a period of disequilibrium, typically lasting $2-6$ weeks.

Problem-Solving Model (Helen Harris Perlman)

Focuses on the interaction of the Person, the Problem, the Place, and the Process (Study, Diagnosis, and Treatment).

Task-Centered Model (Epstein and Reid)

A technology for alleviating target problems perceived by clients through bounded periods of service and specific tasks.

Psychosocial Approach (Gordon Hamilton)

An organismic approach concerned with inner realities and social context, utilizing differential treatment and diagnostic classification.

Functional Approach (Jessie Taft and Virginia Robinson)

Focuses on the delivery of service, the dynamic use of time, and the use of agency function.

Positive Reinforcement

A behavior modification technique involving adding something to increase a target behavior.

Negative Reinforcement

A behavior modification technique involving the removal of an unpleasant stimulus to strengthen a target behavior.

Genogram

A tool for family assessment presenting historical and contemporary data on main figures in a client's environment, similar to a family tree.

Ecological Map

A tool that pictures the family or individual in their life space to highlight interfaces, conflicts, and resources.

Topical Shift

An interviewing technique where the worker purposely changes the subject because the current discussion is unproductive.

Universalization

A technique used to minimize guilt or anxiety by generalizing an event as something many others also experience.

SOLER

A communication technique: Sit attentively, Open posture, Lean forward, Eye contact, and Relaxed body language.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

A systematic approach by business to build economic, social, human, and natural capital while addressing environmental issues.

Feminist Social Work

Theory and practice assuming client problems reside within societal structures rather than the female psyche, utilizing a Gendered Lens.