Glossary
Social Work Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential social work professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key social work professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in social work professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Community-based research
- Research with communities.
- Competency
- Required skill.
- CSWE
- Council on Social Work Education.
- DSW
- Doctor of Social Work.
- Evidence-based practice
- Research-informed practice.
- Field instructor
- Agency supervisor.
- Field placement
- Supervised agency practice.
- Generalist practice
- Broad social work skills.
- LCSW
- Clinical license.
- MSW
- Master of Social Work.
- Policy practice
- Advocacy for policy change.
- Role-play
- Practice scenario.
- Fairness in society.
- Tenure
- Permanent status.
- Trauma-informed
- Sensitive to trauma.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Social Work Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Social Work Professor training.
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