Exam 1: The Contribution of Theory to Program Planning

Your human services organization's Director has appointed you to head the staff and management committee which will develop the organization's planning effort. You have used strategic planning, management planning and program planning models before to develop the organization's program planning. But you believe strongly that taking a strengths-based approach will produce better results for long term sustainable change in the community. Below, explain to the committee the three different types of planning models and then compare/contrast those to the methods of Assets Planning and Mapping. Describe one example of each of the three standard models (strategic, management and program) and then one example of Assets Planning and Mapping. Tell your committee in one sentence why you want to use Assets Planning and Mapping for the organization's planning process.

Efficiency is much more important than effectiveness in human service planning.

Intake data for a client might include demographic, social history, and _______________.

In planning, a problem statement is translated into a hypothesis and a hypothesis is translated into goals and objectives.

A program can start so long as the Coordinator has experience in the type of program.

Management Planning focuses on:

Assets Mapping is built around the __________ of a community.

Which of the following is NOT produced during strategic planning?

Herbert Simon suggested that comprehensive planning was neither feasible nor useful and that "suboptimizing" was a more reasonable alternative. Which of the following is the best description of "suboptimizing"?

Social science research begins with hypotheses that can be verified and tested.

When working with a client/patient, which of the following is NOT a part of the activities or process?

Assets planning and assets mapping is a new approach to program planning that is based on:

Compare and contrast efficiency and effectiveness as they might be defined in a human services agency.

Faludi distinguished two types of theory-the first type is the process of problem solving. The second type:

In Macro Practice, as differentiated from Clinical Practice, which of following planning activity includes developing the hypothesis?

A program is:

Two of the problem-solving approaches in planning are efficiency and ______.

It is important to understand the cause and effect of a problem...