Exam 5: Tools for Determining Need and Analyzing Social Policy

The single most important question to ask when evaluating the effectiveness of a service delivery system is:

Publicly stated goals are called:

You are a social work policy practitioner looking for information about the goals of a policy that provides free college tuition to children aging out of the foster care system in your state. Where might you look to find this information?

When evidence reveals that two conditions are linked, for example, illiteracy and teenage pregnancy, policy analysts can know:

The process of connecting the social problem and resulting social policy, through concerted action and the exertion of rights and/or an appeal to social justice and/or utility is called:

What data might a social worker practicing with adolescent girls experiencing depression use to construct social media usage as a 'social problem' for this population?

As an example of the social construction of social problems, domestic violence was once understood as:

What are the benefits/services provided in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program?

With what you know about Social Security and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, as well as the concept of 'worthy' and 'unworthy' poor that they enshrine, how are the different financing mechanisms of these policies related to the adequacy of their benefit levels?

Which of the following best characterizes the role that values and self-interest play in social problem definition?

How would you explain the idea that problems are socially constructed to a colleague suspicious that this sounds like the concept of "alternative facts"?

Means tests:

A statement of the desired human condition or social environment that is expected to result from implementation of the policy is:

Social policies are designed to:

Which of the following most likely reflects a strengths perspective of incorporating client perspectives into the development of policy goals?

Which of the following could be understood as a latent goal of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?

The National Association of Social Workers has focused much of its lobbying work on licensure requirements that restrict certain types of social service jobs to only licensed social workers. How would a strengths perspective analysis of service delivery systems view this?

A social problem becomes a societal concern when:

Eligibility rules:

When analyzed using a strengths perspective on policy analysis, how would one evaluate the trend towards devolution in social service delivery and financing?