Exam 12: Indirect Strategies: Organizing for Change

Which of the following endorses reduced government spending, lower taxes, reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit, and adherence to an originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

In assessing what we have seen and heard when visiting a home, a state institution or a new section of town, we begin by

The most effective kind of change is that which is initiated from the top of an organization, from the president, board of trustees or directors.

Each human service worker must examine his or her own attitudes towards social change and social change agents before embarking on a change effort.

Why do you think committed human service workers might continue to use casework strategies to change the behavior or attitudes of a group of young adults, even after research has indicated that the lack of job opportunities or recreational outlets might be causing much of their vandalism and aggression?

Systems-organizing and systems-change strategies rely on the same basic activities and skills as the direct-service strategies.

In order to assure the fullest involvement of the people who will be affected by the changes we are working for, it is useful to:

In dealing with a child who is having behavior problems in school, one of the steps the human service worker, who is sensitive to the impact of systems, is likely to take is:

After observing an institution or a slice of community life, we try to make sense out of what we have seen and heard. This process involves three steps: Observation, Speculation, and

Charismatic leaders like the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. are indispensable to the success of a change campaign.

Once a system or a set of rules has been changed we can relax, knowing that we have improved the situation.

The following factors would need to be evaluated in assessing the Mental Health Quotient of a classroom:

The organizer needs to keep the focus of the meetings clear by always guarding against conversations of personal issues.

Give an example of what is meant by the societal or systemic roots of a problem. Give an example of a problem that looks on the surface as if it was a personal problem but when looked at closer it appears to have societal or system roots. (You can use the one in the book.) Why is it necessary to search for the societal or systemic roots of a person's problem?

Ed Wong, the staff worker at CAFTE, says that he often feels more like a lawyer than a human service worker primarily because

For a change as monumental as Brown vs. Board of Education, (which ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional), to take root; it is necessary that

The problems that people face are mostly caused by inner psychological forces.

We say in the text that change, once instituted, must be constantly monitored. How might this apply to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision that overturned racial segregation in public schools or the Public Law 94.142 that guaranteed an appropriate education in the least restrictive setting to all children, regardless of their handicapping condition?

Before jumping into the middle of a change effort, one of the tasks the worker should use to prepare him or herself is:

Change methods fall into roughly three categories of escalating intensity: educating, persuading, and