Community-Level Practice Flashcards
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A social worker is preparing testimony for a city council hearing on affordable housing. This activity is an example of which community practice role?
Answer: Legislative advocate
Providing testimony to legislative bodies to influence policy decisions is a core function of the legislative advocate role.
In Rothman's classic models of community organization, which model most closely parallels the work of a United Way strategic planning committee?
Answer: Social planning
Social planning relies on expert-driven, data-based problem-solving and rational planning, which aligns with coordinated agency planning like United Way.
Which ethical principle is most at stake when a social worker shares aggregate community health data publicly without first consulting affected residents?
Answer: Self-determination
Self-determination requires that community members have meaningful input into decisions—including how data about them is collected and used.
A social worker implementing a 'popular education' curriculum in a refugee community is drawing on which theoretical tradition?
Answer: Critical pedagogy
Popular education, rooted in Freire's critical pedagogy, uses participatory learning to develop critical consciousness and collective action.
When conducting a community capacity assessment, measuring 'bonding social capital' specifically refers to:
Answer: Ties among individuals within the same social group
Bonding social capital describes the dense, trusting relationships within a homogeneous group, such as close neighbors or members of the same ethnic community.
A social worker is helping residents form a tenant association to negotiate with a landlord. The practice skill most central to this phase is:
Answer: Leadership development
Building resident capacity to organize and advocate requires identifying and developing leaders who can sustain collective action.
The 'dual perspective' framework in community practice helps social workers understand how clients simultaneously navigate:
Answer: Their cultural community and the dominant societal system
Norton's dual perspective recognizes that clients operate within both their immediate nurturing community and the larger, often dominant, societal system.