Korean Social Worker Level 1 (사회복지사 1급): professional foundations key terms

An assessment perspective examining the interaction between an individual’s experiences and the relationships, institutions and material conditions surrounding them.

Understanding the client’s experience and emotional frame of reference while maintaining the professional distinction between the client’s experience and one’s own.

An approach identifying capacities, resources and possibilities alongside difficulties rather than defining the person solely through a deficit.

A coordinated process of assessing needs, planning, linking resources and reviewing services where several providers or systems are involved.

Offering a different, supportable way of understanding an experience without denying the person’s account or imposing an unsupported interpretation.

A focused approach translating agreed concerns into specific achievable tasks and reviewing their completion with the client.

The process of specifying observable indicators or procedures through which an abstract concept will be measured or examined.

Consistency of a measurement procedure under the relevant conditions, which alone does not establish that it measures the intended construct.

The adequacy of the interpretation that a measure represents the intended concept, supported by relevant evidence rather than appearance alone.

A situation in which another factor is associated with the presumed cause and outcome, complicating attribution of the observed relationship.

An immediate product of program activity, such as sessions delivered, distinguished from the resulting change in participants’ circumstances.

A change associated with a program’s purpose, assessed separately from the number of activities or services delivered.

A community-practice model emphasizing broad participation, cooperative problem definition and development of community capacity.

A community-practice approach emphasizing systematic analysis and coordinated design of responses to identified social needs.

Collective activity seeking changes in power, resources or institutional decisions affecting disadvantaged or excluded groups.

A policy approach offering a defined benefit or service to the relevant population without the particular selective means test under discussion.

A social-security category providing support under its statutory eligibility and need framework, distinguished from contributory social insurance.

A social-protection arrangement organized around legally defined insured risks and contributions rather than being identical to general means-tested assistance.

The extent to which an intervention or organization achieves its relevant intended goals, assessed with suitable outcome evidence.

The relationship between resources used and the outputs or outcomes achieved, distinct from whether the intended purpose was met.

A supervisory function addressing the worker’s experience, stress and capacity to continue effective professional practice.

A statement of a position’s duties, responsibilities and working conditions, distinguished from the qualifications required of its holder.

A continuing evidence-informed process of examining delivery and testing changes intended to improve the service and the experience of those using it.

A limit structuring the professional relationship to protect the client’s interests, appropriate responsibility and the integrity of judgment.