All people have qualities and limitations, good points and not-so-good points. Why do you think that social workers (and many other human services professionals) did not practice from a strengths perspective prior to the 1980s?
What will be an ideal response?
This question is intended to provide students with some exposure to the history of social work (and some related helping professions). Prior to the 1980s most human service professions operated from a “medical model”, whereby there was a clear status differential between providers and consumers, and the “authority” of providers was such that consumers had little voice in how they were helped. Another way to describe this is a time when consumers were identified as “patients”, and provided with a limited number of what we now call “client rights”. These practices reflected prevailing social values of previous eras, not a lack of sincerity among the professions.
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a) Housing b) Income c) Health care d) All of the above
Adoption and Safe Families Act into law
A) provides incentives for families adopting children in the foster care system B) enhances the rights of biological parents, reducing rights of foster parents C) slows down the time line for terminating the rights of parents whose children are in foster care placement D) mandates that states provide evidence of reunification with the biological parents
The most recent reauthorization of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act as the
HEARTH Act expanded the definition of homelessness by including all but which of the following those A) living in a hotel or motel but who cannot remain there for more than 14 days because of lack of resources B) living in shared homes because they were evicted and forced by court order to move out within 14 days C) living in hospitals, hospices and short-term residential facilities D) on the verge of losing their homes (whether rented or owned)
Kapp and Anderson provide 12 factors and/or steps to consider when designing a culturally competent evaluation plan. Describe and explain 6 of these factors/steps, and provide examples of each.
What will be an ideal response?