Social Work

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the major issues facing social workers related to adults, aging parents and life partners, partner and domestic violence, elder abuse, and older adults.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how diversity and the social systems of various diverse groups guides multicultural social work practice.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the empowerment base of social work practice including approaches to engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the major issues facing social workers related to family, child abuse and neglect, child welfare services, schools, and needs of adolescents.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the major issues facing social workers related to health systems, health, disabilities, mental health, and substance abuse and dependency.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain social justice concepts from a social work perspective including the effects of social injustices and the social worker's role.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the major issues facing social workers related to poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and criminal justice.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain ways in which social work impacts formation, implementation, and analysis of social policy.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to demonstrate knowledge of different social work delivery systems including various social work settings, ways social work can be funded and staffed, and current challenges in these systems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe social work as a profession including the historical milestones illustrating ways the profession has evolved, the fundamental values, the major movements and reform goals, the impact of professional organizations, and the main principles and tenet.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to related social work to social systems and an ecosystems perspective including the impact of social functioning, different client systems in social work, and different social work methods commonly used.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define social work including the elements of generalist social work practice, the purpose of social work, the role of social work in social welfare, and the fields of social work practice in society.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the functions, roles, and strategies of social workers from a generalist approach.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the accepted values and ethical principles in social work.