Models of Social Work Practice Flashcards

A worker provides clean syringes and naloxone to a client who is not ready to stop using opioids. This reflects which approach?

Answer: Harm reduction

Harm reduction meets clients where they are and reduces the negative effects of use without requiring abstinence.

According to SAMHSA, the principles of trauma-informed care include:

Answer: Safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment

Trauma-informed care puts safety, trust, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural responsiveness first.

In the empowerment approach to practice, the social worker's relationship with the client is best described as:

Answer: A collaborative partnership

Empowerment practice stresses partnership and shared power so clients can gain personal, interpersonal, and political power.

A feminist practice model would most likely encourage the worker to:

Answer: Explore how gender roles and power differences shape the client's problems

Feminist practice holds that the personal is political and looks at gender-based oppression and power.

Which assessment tool visually maps a client's connections to outside systems such as school, church, and work?

Answer: Ecomap

An ecomap, created by Ann Hartman, shows the client's relationships with environmental systems and how strong those ties are.

A solution-focused worker asks, 'On a scale of 0 to 10, where are you today?' The main purpose is to:

Answer: Track progress and identify small steps toward goals

Scaling questions help clients notice progress and name concrete next steps.

A generalist social worker works with a family (micro), a school group (mezzo), and advocates for district policy (macro). This shows the generalist model's:

Answer: Multi-level, eclectic approach

Generalist practice uses a planned change process across micro, mezzo, and macro levels and draws on many theories.