Diversity and Social Justice Flashcards
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A social worker discovers that their agency offers fewer services to undocumented immigrant clients than to documented clients. This is an example of:
Answer: Institutional discrimination
When institutional policies systematically disadvantage certain groups, this constitutes institutional discrimination regardless of individual worker intent.
In anti-oppressive practice (AOP), the concept of 'positionality' requires social workers to:
Answer: Reflect on how their own social location shapes their perceptions and power in relationships
Positionality requires practitioners to critically examine how their race, gender, class, and other identities privilege or marginalize them in relation to clients.
Which concept describes the psychological impact on marginalized individuals who internalize oppressive messages about their own group?
Answer: Internalized oppression
Internalized oppression occurs when members of marginalized groups accept and adopt negative societal messages about their own group as truth.
A social worker uses a genogram with a client but only includes heterosexual family structures in the template. This omission reflects:
Answer: Heteronormativity embedded in clinical tools
When clinical tools assume heterosexual family structures as default, they embed heteronormativity and can alienate LGBTQ+ clients and families.
The term 'cultural humility' differs from 'cultural competence' primarily in that cultural humility:
Answer: Emphasizes ongoing self-reflection, learning, and acknowledging that expertise about another's culture always rests with that person
Cultural humility, developed by Tervalon and Murray-García, stresses lifelong learning and critical self-reflection rather than achieving a static state of competence.
An LMSW wants to advocate for affordable housing policy affecting low-income clients. This activity reflects which NASW ethical standard?
Answer: Social and political action
NASW's ethical standard on Social and Political Action calls on social workers to engage in policy advocacy to expand choice and opportunity for all people.
Which of the following best illustrates the concept of 'decolonizing' social work practice?
Answer: Centering Indigenous knowledge systems and dismantling Eurocentric practice frameworks that marginalize non-Western perspectives
Decolonizing practice involves challenging Eurocentric assumptions built into dominant social work models and elevating Indigenous, Black, and non-Western ways of knowing and healing.