Exam 1: Social Work: a Helping Profession

Lee is employed by Family and Child Counseling as a generalist social worker.Lee will be expected to ______.

Which of the following views of the relationship between social work and society emphasizes the context of social functioning?

Jim is a social work student who is learning that empowerment refers to ______.

Analyze the relationship between the principles of social justice, human rights, and the social welfare institution.

According to Maslow's hierarchy, identify the correct ascendancy of needs beginning with the most fundamental.

Apply the definition of social work as an empowerment-oriented, human rights, and social justice profession to the guiding principles for social work practice.

Delineate the goals of generalist social work.

Demonstrate how social workers promote social and economic justice in various fields of practice.

Evaluate the interrelationships between the purpose and goals of social work and the practice of social work from a generalist perspective.

Jolene is working on a planning effort to coordinate service delivery for homeless women and children.Ogden is a counselor with the Homeless Coalition.Sarah, a legislative advocate, is concerned with social policy development regarding homelessness.Evaluate their activities in relation to the purpose of social work.

Create some examples of social policies that affect services to clients in various fields of social work practice.

Based on the "Voices from the Field" examples, evaluate the potential needs and sources of strengths that give direction to practice with social work clients in these practice examples.

Empowerment is best described as ______.

Analyze how the definition of generalist social work practice informs professional identity and behaviors.

Which of the following represents the social work view of personal troubles and public issues?

Explain how focusing on competence and strengths rather than on deficits and pathologies affect social workers' and clients' notions about human and social needs and social functioning.

Illustrate ways in which social work is a human rights profession.

______ prevails) when all members of a society share equally in the social order, secure an equitable consideration of resources and opportunities, and enjoy their full benefit of civil rights and civil liberties.

Lien upholds the view that social welfare programs and services should be available to all persons as a citizen right.Her view of social welfare is classified as an) ______.

Which is the first of the internationally binging agreements on human rights?