Exam 7: Child Welfare: Working With Children and Their Families

Social workers are not mandated to report an incident of child abuse that they hear about when they are off-duty.

Programs and policies that exist for the main purpose of improving the well-being of children are part of what system?

As a social worker, when a friend in your neighborhood informs you that her husband is abusing their two children:

Children are considered vulnerable and in need of special attention and advocacy because of which of the following?

Which of the following stages of development is marked by the development of attachment relationships as seen in children's recognition and interaction with their primary caregivers and other significant people in their lives?

Child development theory tells us that it is always problematic for children to be sleeping with their parents.

Because they are young, children can never be included in the planning and decision-making regarding the intervention process.

Discuss some of the challenges that face the foster care system and how social workers might intervene to address one of them.

Things that children discuss with social workers must remain confidential.

List and describe the three primary roles that social workers use to intervene on behalf of children and families?

Children often come to the attention of a social worker on their own.

When a case manager listens to a child's wish not to continue visitation with a parent who maltreated her, the case manager is

Balancing the value of self-determination is especially complicated when working with children.

Upon learning that a five year-old child is still sleeping with his or her parents, a social worker should do which of the following?

The Ecological approach suggests that social workers view a client within the context of his/her environment. Name five systems that commonly impact the children with whom social workers work.

Assessment is an on-going process that continues throughout a social worker's involvement with a child or family.

Explain why the value of self-determination is particularly difficult when working with children.

Intervention with children should consistently stem from social work theory.