Social Work and Family Dynamics Quiz

CSS 1000 Final Exam Review

• Textbook: Introduction to Social Work in Canada: Histories, Context, and Practices, Second Edition, 2020 by Ives, Denov, and Sussman
• Chapters Covered: 4, 5, 8-13

Case Management

• Focuses on guiding individuals and families to access resources.

Service Navigation

• Facilitates connections to resources and ensures needs are met.

Attending Skills

• Nonverbal communication demonstrating interest.

Open Questions

• Questions requiring more than a one-word answer.

Closed Questions

• Questions answered with a simple "yes" or "no," or a few words.

Reflecting

• Rephrasing what a client is attempting to communicate.

Parroting

• Repeating verbatim what a client says.

Summarizing

• Condensing key themes from an interview.

Care and Concern

• The social worker's desire to understand the individual and family.

Genuineness

• Being genuine, open, and sincere with individuals and families.

Empathy

• Understanding and responding to another person's experiences.

Collaboration

• Developing mutually agreed goals and tasks with the client.

Client-Centered

• Placing individuals and families at the center of the helping process, respecting their perspectives.

Self-Awareness

• Understanding how a social worker affects others and vice versa.

Attunement

• Paying attention to how individuals and families are reacting in the session.

Self-Disclosure

• Intentionally revealing aspects of the social worker's self.

Voluntary

• Client requests for services willingly and agrees to the referral.

Involuntary

• Client requests for services due to external pressure, like court mandates.

Consolidating Gains

• Reinforcing positive changes in clients' capacities.

Tracking

• Observing and listening to interaction patterns for identifying issues.

Family Structure

• How the family is organized, including roles and closeness between members.

Genogram

• A visual representation of a family's history, structure, functioning, and relationships.

Factors in Social Work Practice

• Genuineness: Honesty about self, demonstrating care, and believing in the client's worth.
• Empathy: Understanding the client's subjective experiences, validating emotions, and avoiding judgment.
• Collaboration: Establishing mutual agreements about the nature of issues.

Group Types

• Treatment Group: Focuses on socio-emotional or behavioral needs.
• Task Group: Completes specific assignments.
• Open Group: Membership can change over time.
• Closed Group: Fixed membership.

Group Stages

• Forming: Clarifying purpose and building relationships.
• Storming: Expressing intragroup conflict.
• Norming: Developing cohesion and ways to work together.
• Performing: Effective communication and focus on group work.
• Adjourning: Evaluation and termination.

Interactional Model

• Shared leadership among group members.

Support Groups vs. Self-Help Groups

• Support groups have professional leadership, while self-help groups are peer-led or led by trained individuals sharing the same issue.

Community

• Community Defined by geography, identity, interest, or a combination.
• Includes groups like a neighbourhood or people connected by ethnicity or interest.
• Includes e-communities and virtual forums.

Psychoeducational Group Leader Role

• The group leader acts as a teacher and structure provider for discussion and knowledge sharing.

Historical Context

• Colonization: Invasion or taking control of another nation's sovereignty.
• Residential School: A program that forcibly removed Indigenous children to eradicate their culture.
• Sixties Scoop: Large-scale adoption and fostering of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children into non-Indigenous homes.
• Historical Trauma: Cumulative emotional, psychological, and spiritual damage across generations from massive traumatic experiences.
• Collective Trauma: Carrying a memory of victimhood without firsthand experience.
• Decolonization: Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples working together to dismantle colonization.

Holistic Approach

• Recognizing the whole person, including spiritual, emotional, physical, and psychological aspects.

Egalitarianism

• The belief that all people should share equal social, political, and economic rights and opportunities.

Clan

• Groups of families with the same inherited social and political roles.

Intergenerational Trauma

• Trauma passed down throughout generations in Indigenous communities, leading to unhealthy relationships and challenges.

Resettlement

• The process of refugees gaining permanent legal residency in a settlement country.

Migrant/Immigrant/Refugee

• Migrant: A person moving from one country to another, temporarily or permanently.
• Immigrant: A person legally admitted as a permanent resident.
• Refugee: A person outside their country of citizenship due to persecution or fear of persecution.
• Refugee Claimant: A temporary resident seeking refugee protection.
• Temporary Foreign Worker: A person hired by a Canadian employer to fill temporary labour shortages.
• Undocumented Migrant: Someone who has exceeded their visa or refugee claim timeframe.

Nonrefoulement

• Preventing the return of people to places where they risk torture and ill treatment.

Integration and Acculturation

• Integration: Participation in the economic, cultural, political, and social life of a settlement country, while maintaining ties to one's origin.
• Acculturation: Adapting to a new culture, possibly by changing traditions, values, languages, and beliefs.

Migration Framework

• Understanding the driving forces behind migration.
• The client's journey from their country of origin.
• Settling into a new country's challenges.

Settlement and Integration Factors

• Goals and expectations
• Language proficiency
• Education and employment
• Housing
• Healthcare and social support

Acculturation vs. Assimilation

• Acculturation: Adapting to a new culture while retaining aspects of one's original culture.
• Assimilation: Minimizing one's original cultural identity to adapt to the new culture.

Concepts and Issues

• Intersectionality: Overlapping systems of oppression based on race, class, gender, ability, religion, etc.
• Homophobia: Fear, hatred, and intolerance toward gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.
• Transphobia: Fear, hatred, and intolerance toward transgender individuals.
• Microaggressions: Verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, often unintentional, communicating hostility.
• Heterosexism: The assumption that heterosexuality is the norm.
• Gender Non-conforming: Individuals whose expression doesn't align with their assigned sex.
• Transitioning: The process of trans individuals moving towards their desired gender identity.
• Political Intersectionality: Navigating conflicting priorities within subordinated groups.
• Disability Models: Different perspectives on disability- Medical (deficit-based) versus social (social/environmental factors).
• Ableism: Discrimination or prejudice based on ability or disability.
• Eugenics: Selecting desired human traits and preventing breeding of those with "undesired" traits.
• Ageism: Stereotyping older people associating aging with decline.
• Successful Aging: Preventing functional decline and engaging in meaningful activities.
• Selective Optimization with Compensation: Positive coping process with aging.
• Cohort: People born in the same historical period experiencing similar social changes.

Services

• Home Care: Publicly funded health and social services in homes or community settings.
• Community Support Services: Locally run, non-profit services supplementing home care.
• Supportive/Assisted Living: Congregate settings for older adults needing minimal assistance.
• Facility-Based Long-Term Care: Residential, typically publicly funded, for individuals needing extensive care.

Global Context

• Globalization: Economic and cultural interconnectedness, including breaking down borders for trade.
• Glocalization: Linking global and local processes.
• Civil Society: Non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations in public life representing member interests and values
• NGOs/INGOs: Non-Governmental/ International Non-Governmental Organizations, working to address global issues.
• Human Rights: Basic entitlements for all people regardless of status.

Other Concepts

• Indigenization: Adapting theories and practices to the local indigenous context.
• Authentization: Developing theories and practice rooted in local realities.
• Demobilization: Formal discharge of active combatants from armed forces.
• Reintegration: Process of ex-combatants acquiring civilian status and sustainable employment.
• Avoidance of Eurocentric View: Critical examination of power dynamics across historical, cultural, and political contexts.

Additional Information

• Pages 399-401 likely contain further details on avoiding a Eurocentric view on international social work.