Exam 3: Needs Assessment: Theoretical Considerations

The theorist Ponsioen, explained that a community's first responsibility is to do which of the following:

When determining need for a program, it is important for the planner to have a strategy for measuring existing conditions against which of the following:

Public attitudes and expectations are constantly shifting.

In the United States, "Maslow's Hierarchy of Need" was applied in program planning for domestic violence by first ensuring the abuse victim has:

Which of the following is NOT a way of measuring perceived need?

Needs Assessment consists of establishing standards of need and devising a way of counting the number who fall below that standard.

Domestic violence did not exist until the late 1960s and early 1970s.

There are three key words in the definition of "evidence-based program". Which of the following is NOT one of those three key words.

Bradshaw identified four distinct approaches of measurement of need: perceived, relative, normative, and which of the following:

When the value of providing services to families was acknowledged, the bulk of resources were allocated to caring for these children in institutions-an unintended consequence of more institutionalizations because families were not provided adequate resources to care for them at home.

Relative need gives priority to population groups or geographic areas in ______________.

Poseidon and Maslow described levels of need and the development of priorities based on all of the following EXCEPT:

In program planning, once problems have been identified and defined, they need to be translated into need and all of the following EXCEPT:

The concept of 'need', used by program planners, means identifying the problem and the group with the problem.

Quantification of need in planning means that we will group individuals with the same problems together so they can be:

A needs assessment estimates both current need, as well as future need if all of the following do not change EXCEPT:

In 1924, one of the first "official" definitions of need was introduced by the federal government in social service block grants. Title XX of the Amendments of the Social Security Act required each state, in order to receive federal funds, initiate a planning process that included the assessment of need. If you were in charge of developing the needs assessment plan for your state, how would you use the four categories of need to complete the planning process-and give an example of a need in each category that might be identified during the planning process.

The British have applied Poseidon's theory to the development of which of the following: