Deck 1: The Policy-Based Profession 1

Question 1

Studies of organizations do not support proletarianization because:

A)Professionals are recognized under U.S.labor law as a special group.
B)Professionals are subject to supervision by other professionals.
C)Both of the above.
D)Neither of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The strengths of the policy-based professional model include:

A)Acceptance of difficult-to-define functions as part of social work practice.
B)Acceptance of social work practice within an organizational context.
C)Acceptance of systemic influences on human behavior.
D)All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The three systems that comprise the policy-based professional model are:

A)Family system
B)Economic system
C)Legal system
D)None of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The author of the 1915 paper that had a great impact on the direction of the social work profession was:

A)S)Humphries Gurteen
B)Mary Richmond
C)Abraham Flexner
D)Alvin Schorr

Question 5

Social work responded to Flexner's critique by:

A)Focusing on social casework.
B)Organizing the American Association of Professional Schools of Social Work.
C)Rejecting social legislation and settlement house work as part of the social work curriculum.
D)All of the above

Question 6

In this text,the traditional way of defining professions such as medicine is called:

A)The market-based model
B)The process model
C)The conflict model
D)The trait model

Question 7

Proletarianization refers to:

A)An anti-bureaucratic bias.
B)A Marxist theory of history in which capitalism that strips all workers of control over their work.
C)A shift in authority from the professional to the office.
D)All of the above

Question 8

Dependency occurs when:

A)An individual is not adequately fulfilling a role.
B)Social institutions are not providing adequate supports to enable the individual to fulfill a role.
C)Both of the above.
D)Neither of the above.

Question 9

In Abraham Flexner's 1915 assessment,social work met this standard of being professional:

A)Demonstrated communicable techniques.
B)Derived from science and learning.
C)Altruistic.
D)All of the above

Question 10

Macropractice has been called:

A)Wholesale social work practice.
B)Working to effect social change.
C)Dealing with the cause of a social problem.
D)All of the above

Question 11

The market-based model of professional practice relies on:

A)A historical example of private medical practice that is no longer dominant.
B)An anti-corporate and anti-bureaucratic perspective.
C)Validation by the attraction of customers in a business model.
D)All of the above.

Question 12

The technique adopted by social work to define itself was known as:

A)Social casework
B)Psychoanalysis
C)Community organization
D)Behaviorism

Question 13

An example of individual role failure is:

A)A woman can't keep a job because she has problems controlling her temper.
B)A woman is unemployed because there are not enough jobs in her community.
C)A child with a learning disability does not attend school because the school does not offer a program to that meets his special needs.
D)A young mother leaves her child at an unlicensed day care center because it is the only one she can afford.

Question 14

According to Porter R.Lee,the primary task of professional social work is:

A)To institutionalize the gains won through working to effect social change.
B)To serve the marginalized.
C)To organize a successful campaign to change legislation.
D)None of the above

Question 15

Which is not considered a type of macropractice?

A)Planning.
B)Counseling.
C)Policy.
D)Administration.

Question 16

Interdependence can be defined as:

A)A group of dependent people banding together to help each other.
B)An individual is doing everything necessary to fulfill roles and the appropriate social institutions are functioning well enough to support the person's role performance.
C)The cause of the American Revolution.
D)A person who is functioning somewhere between being independent and being dependent.

Question 17

Micropractice is dominant in social work because of all the following except:

A)The individual is the most immediate target for change.
B)The conservative nature of U.S.society.
C)The model of professionalization that the social work profession has pursued.
D)All of the above

Question 18

When an individual is doing everything necessary to fulfill a role and the appropriate social institutions are functioning well enough to support the person's role performance we have:

A)Interdependence.
B)Dependency.
C)Social justice.
D)Economic justice

Question 19

Individualism as used by the authors means:

A)People deserve the majority of the credit for any success they experience.
B)People deserve most of the blame for any failures they experience.
C)That micropractice is more socially acceptable than macropractice.
D)All of the above

Question 20

Social assignment refers to:

A)The population to which a social worker assigns services.
B)The target population that an agency desires to serve.
C)Societal recognition of a profession as responsible for a given social problem area.
D)None of the above.

Question 21

The thesis that asserts that professionals lose power and control when they work in organizations is called:

A)The white collar blues
B)Proletarianization
C)Alienation
D)Bureaucratization

Question 22

The author's describe the policy based profession as being comprised of the following except:

A)The practice system
B)The policy system
C)The client system
D)The professional system

Question 23

Social policy does not determine the:

A)Major goals of service
B)Goals of clients
C)Characteristics of clients
D)Theoretical focus of services

Question 24

The authors contend that policy is relevant to the day-to-day activities of social workers

Question 25

Describe the difference between role failure and the failure of social institutions as each form of failure relates to the issue of dependency.Provide examples of each that qualify as targets for social work practice.

Question 26

The crucial issue in the development of a profession is the responsibility for the management of a social problem

Question 27

Describe the triadic structure of the policy-based professional model with examples for each of the three systems.

Question 28

Settlement house work has always been a respected part of the social work curriculum.

Question 29

Describe how micropractice has come to dominate macro practice.

Question 30

From the very beginning,providers of social services have been concerned with gaining recognition as a profession

Question 31

Which of the following is not a policy practice role?

A)Therapist
B)Planner
C)Administrator
D)Program evaluator

Question 32

Identify three reasons why macropractice should not be dominated by micropractice if social work is to effectively deal with the problems of dependency.

Question 33

Professional authority or autonomy is based on educational and state licensing credentials.