Exam 9: Reactivity and Non-Reactive Measures

An important advantage of public archival records is their flexibility.

The practitioner looks around at the client's room and mentally checks off an "observer's question" she will complete after leaving the client.

If a practitioner observed how an adolescent gang was exploiting younger children in the neighborhood to sell drugs to school children, so that the children could qualify for gang membership, and recorded this in his process recording, from which he later did a content analysis for evaluation purposes.

The social worker reads a question from the agency that states it requires a sliding-scale payment fee for services rendered.

Which of the following is/are a behavior product?

An example of a public archival record would be a client's diary.

Watching a client or a family interaction from behind a one-way mirror, unknown to the client or the family, is an example of:

Self-monitoring of positive or desirable behaviors will tend to reactivity.

If an agency administrator observed over a period of weeks how many practitioners had signed in at the office at 9 o'clock when the agency opened (although some secretaries were there at 8:30 to handle early calls), and then sent around a "reminder notice" of the agency hours, followed by another series of observations of sign-ins.

If a practitioner listens to the client present his problem, and then he makes some inferences about the causal factors involved.