Exam 1: Introduction

Incorporated in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (Council on Social Work Education, 2015), graduates of accredited social work programs should be able to engage diversity and difference in practice.

In the context of the phases of social work practice, the preparing, beginning, and exploring skills support the intervention competency.

Which of the following statements is true of a social work skill?

In the context of the phases of social work practice, the ending skills support the engagement competency.

The use of a person-in-environment perspective encourages a phenomenon called blaming the victim.

Social workers who use a person-in-environment perspective, with strong emphasis on the environment, _____.

Social workers tend to view person-in-environment, person-and-environment, or person-in-context as the basic unit of attention.

Which of the following is a risk associated with a phase-to-phase or stage-to-stage approach to social work?

Which of the following statements is true of the social work mission?

Social workers view the social work skills as technical activities to complete, robotlike, at exactly the same relative time and in precisely the same way with all clients and all situations.

Discuss the knowledge, values, attitudes, qualities, and abilities required to become an effective social worker.Identify your strengths and weaknesses as a social worker.

Critical thinking and lifelong learning are considered dimensions of professionalism.

Incorporated in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (Council on Social Work Education, 2015) graduates of accredited social work programs should be able to:

How will you decide which social work skills to use and when and how to use them in your profession as a social worker?

Which of the following is a characteristic of social workers?

Which of the following is a phase of social work practice outlined in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards?

In the context of social work, which of the following statements is true?

In the context of social work practices, which of the following skills supports the engagement competency?

Ethical decision making is an aspect of professionalism.

According to The Oxford English Dictionary (Online), a _____ is a "vocation or calling, especially one that involves some branch of advanced learning or science."