2. History of Social Work What is a profession? WHO CARES?
Unique skill, specialized training, systematic theory, code of ethics, professional association
WHO CARES?
DOES IT HELP CLIENTS????
Gain acceptance
Help with access to resources
Critical to act in a professional manner, not just be called professional

3. More Profession Talk
Social work was developing (additionally, medical & school settings)
Flexner (1915) Charities & Corrections Conference
Mediators b/w clients & real professionals
Casework was developed to respond to set of competency

4. Conservative SW Tenet
Ind & family responsibility & Private over public
Attend to defects & maintain a safety net

5. Liberal view Individual & institutional change
Partnership b/w public & private

6. Radical view
Restructuring of broad political, social & economical structures
Will result in redistributing resources

7. Big ?’s Building a profession/ or a service delivery system
SW’s role in a national system of social welfare
Role of a profession in social change?

8. Pick the false statement, Professionalism in Social Welfare was:
Started by clients, service recipients, & consumers
Viewed as contradictory to SWer’s who focus on social change
Supported by direct service as a way to promote more uniform skills and services
Viewed as supportive to the development and implementation of the Code of Ethics

9. History of Social Work State charitable institutions (mid 1800’s)
Almsgiving to the poor (Judeo-Christian Practice)
Auctioned out
Poorhouse, >>>asylum(humane facility-for specific dependent group) Dorthea Dix
End of 1800’s( high $ & #’s, isolate groups) not a panacea
National Conference of Charities & Corrections

10. Independent Movements
Charitable Organization Society (#1)
From UK to US 1877
Individual factor in poverty
Home visits to address moral deficits
Industrialization>relief (individual deviation)
Unemployment, fear of militancy, & ind. Responsibility
Led to COS
Joseph Lowell dependency “evil of modern life”
“visitors”, loans, job assistance
Outlet for college ed. Women
Kind action & role model
Mary Richmond
Systematic assessment into causes,training, “Social Diagnosis”

11. Settlement House (#2) Environmental & Social factors
Jane Addams & Ellen Starr-Ed woman of the day
Lived in poor neighborhoods, went from neighbor to service provider
Nursery, lectures/ cultural programs, space for neighborhood groups
Supported by charity but eyed government as source of reforms
Run by woman

12. The Settlement House and Charitable Organization Society had which of the following in common:
a. The source of personal and economic strife was the individual
b. The programs and services were operated predominantly by woman
Societal reform was the overall goal of their services
Social Diagnosis was the keystone of assessment

13. 1920’s
Expansions- private family service agencies, schools, hospitals, children’s aid societies, Red Cross
Social work with groups
Mental hygiene movement (treatment & prevention, not custodial care)
Private Social agency-hierarchy, order, procedures, & skills “scientific” & public $

14. Diversity versus Unity
Dominated by white protestants but included Catholics, Jewish, & African American practitioners
African American presence
Struggle b/c of segregation
Went to white schools/practiced in white agencies
Atlanta SSW & National Urban League
Tradition of self-help woman’s groups & churches
American Association of Social Workers
Uniform training
Included caseworkers but not settlement workers or group workers
Mandated graduate training

15. Depression Unemployment skyrocketed beyond traditional poor
Support for social & economic factors argument
FDR
Federally funded relief (Social Security & Unemployment)
Needs of elderly, physical disabled, & dependent children
Jobs for social workers
Changed focus on poor
Freud & psychoanalysis
Leadership in social welfare
Standards of workers in fed public welfare offices
School’s of Social Service Administration
Undergraduate program’s victim’s in public service vs. high prof standards

16. Which of the following did not happen during or shortly after the Depression?
Federal benefit programs were developed
Economic conditions plummeted to new lows
Social workers of color worked cooperatively with Caucasian colleagues
The number and type of opportunities for social workers increased

17. Current Professional Issues
NASW, CSWE, Code of Ethics
Gender issues
60’s Social Work was called upon to respond to needs of African Americans, Latinos, & other people of color
War on Poverty renewed (community worker versus ind. Causes debate)
BSW programs expanding & recognized
Diverse practitioners (10% people of color-NASW)
Workforce (25% African American, 7% Latino)
Education (MSW 26 %, BSW 33% People of color)
Role in Political Advocacy
Focus of Ed program’s (BSW & MSW)
Dualism remains (individual behavior versus social econ, & pol. Structures)