Exam 1: Introduction to Human Behavior and the Social Environment

Throughout each of the life periods-infancy and childhood, adolescence, young and middle adulthood, and later adulthood-people tend to experience common life events related to all these developments except:

_____ strengths include strong family bonds, mutual concern among family members for each other's welfare, and the parents' pride in their children and high hopes for their futures.

Another name for a natural support network is a helping network.

The step in social work in which the problem or situation is analyzed and interpreted is called:

Which of the following is not part of the second cluster of vital concepts for understanding human behavior?

Identify and describe the following social work roles: empowerer, activist, and mediator. With which of these roles would you have the most difficulty as a social worker? Why?

"Every individual, group, family, and community has strengths" is one of the principles of the strengths perspective.

Feedback is a special form of input in which a system receives information about its own performance.

The broker is the person who calls attention to an issue.

The lifespan is divided into five main phases.

In the social action model, the text listed which of the following social work roles:

The National Association of Social Workers has a professional code of ethics.

When child maltreatment is suspected, should children be allowed to remain in their own home? How much risk of child maltreatment is too much risk? What effect does it have on children to be removed from their home?

The term typical is used to describe levels of functioning that are considered appropriate for a particular age level.

_____ is the vast range of differences among groups including those related to age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, political ideology, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.

You are an administrator for Batter-Out, an agency for the prevention of domestic violence. Your board of directors has requested data to determine if your agency's resources are being adequately invested. Draft a plan clearly delineating your expected output and your outcomes.

Describe assessment and explain why it is important in social work.

The lifespan development is separated in this text according to which of the following:

The text stated which of the following as a major thrust of social work?

_____ is the amount of social respect or standing given to an individual based on occupation.