Deck 1: An Introduction to Family Social Work Questionaire

Question 1

Fewer than ___ percent of families conform the traditional nuclear family structure in which the mother stays home and the father works?

A) 10%
B) 25%
C) 30%
D) 50%

Answer 1

A

Question 2

McGoldrick, Girodano & Garcia-Petro, 2005 describe times when racism and discrimination sometimes peak. What are these?

A) When there is little stress and when the community appears to be doing well
B) During recessions and when there are few diversities in racial groups
C) When there are limited resources and when large ethnic groups immigrate together
D) When there is stress in society and there are many support systems available

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What is the difference between family social work and family therapy?

A) Family therapy relies on office-based intervention to help families make systemic changes while family social work can be both home-based and community based, often unfolding in the same time and space as family life and focusing on such things as daily routines and social environment.
B) Family therapy involves working in the community with family to assess their functioning which family social work is in the office assessing a families functioning.
C) Family therapy involves working solely in the community to provide interventions to a family while family social work relies on office-based intervention to help families make systemic changes.
D) Family therapy relies on daily routines, skills and interactions while family social work focuses on working with families on providing concrete services usually in an office setting.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Changing trends in the US include all but which of the following?

A) More people are remaining single, with approximately 25 percent of all households being single-person households.
B) The percentage of single-parent families, both female-headed and male-headed, is rising.
C) The nuclear family comprised 25 percent of all households in 1996.
D) More people are remarrying after a divorce for financial reasons.

Question 5

What does the book outline as the two main means that family social workers have to become involved with families?

A) Social issues and emotional issues
B) Abuse and behavior problems
C) Mental health issues and financial stressors
D) Lack of parenting skills and lack of family support

Question 6

Several family workers stressed the importance of seeing families in their homes including:

A) Virginia Satir and Alfred Adler
B) Mary Richmond and Nathan Ackerman
C) Abraham Maslow and Monica McGoldrik
D) Aaron Beck and Erik Erickson

Question 7

Family social work embraces all but what objectives:

A) It reinforces family strengths to prepare families for long-term change (or intervention).
B) Create concrete changes in family functioning to sustain effective and satisfying daily routines independent of formal helpers.
C) Address the crisis needs of the family in a timely fashion so they can effectively address more long-standing issues.
D) Addresses the individual functioning of one member and treats them as a separate entity.

Question 8

In 1917 the following individual advised workers to consider the potential effects of all interventions at every systemic level and to use the reciprocal interaction of the systemic hierarchy for the purpose of working toward change:

A) Vriginia Satir
B) Alfred Adler
C) Abraham Maslow
D) Mary Richmond

Question 9

Most individuals belong to at least ____ family groupings over a lifetime?

A) 2
B) 3
C) 1
D) 4

Question 10

What are some of the advantages of family work in the home?

A) Family social workers can receive direct information about family functioning and develop a more complete picture about the family relationships as members interact within a familiar environment.
B) The family social worker maybe able to better individualize the intervention based on a family's living situation.
C) New skills learned maybe easier applied when learned within the family's natural setting as opposed to an office setting.
D) Family social workers are often trained to conduct psychosocial therapies within the home.

Question 11

Which of the following best describes central beliefs of family social work?

A) Most intrusive measure should first be used with families to ensure that the family is demonstrated appropriate means of interacting.
B) If enough problematic interaction patterns can be addressed, the family's future ability to problem solve and thus meet the needs of members will be enhanced.
C) Family Social Work should only be done in crisis situations when families most need support.
D) Family Social Workers often are observers only providing input from 'behind the scenes'.

Question 12

Family Social Worker Virginia Satir (1967) identified several functions of families including all but which of the following?

A) To provide heterosexual experience for mates
B) To contribute to the continuity of the race by producing and nurturing children
C) To ensure that single parents have support
D) To maintain a boundary (e.g., incest as taboo) so that tasks can be performed smoothly and stable relationships maintained

Question 13

Why was Mary Richmond's work so important to social work?

A) She helped social workers looked at each family members as individuals.
B) She propelled social workers look at issues surrounding gender biases.
C) She propelled social workers to think beyond the family by understanding that families are also situated within broader communities and social systems.
D) Helped social workers place an emphasis on teaching parents appropriate parenting skills.

Question 14

All but the following can be downsides to home- or community-based family work?

A) It is not as structured as office based work.
B) Seeing people in their living rooms increases the pressures of induction into a family's problematic patterns.
C) Families may likely feel more support than criticized.
D) The worker and the family might be tempted to make the professional boundaries looser.

Question 15

A parenting and child management skills a Family Social Worker would not be responsible for would be?

A) Reinforcing effective or desired behaviors
B) Helping family members deal with hurt and anger more effectively
C) Teaching parents how to observe and track children's behavior
D) Teaching parents to use more intrusive means of parenting their children

Question 16

What is the dual aim of crisis intervention?

A) To immediately resolve the urgent problems and adaptation to disruptive life events and the promotion of long-term skill building to reduce failure and maximize the ability to deal with future crises.
B) To conduct interventions several days after the concerns have arisen so that autonomy maybe created with the family.
C) To work solely on abstract problems with the family while also dealing with all of the families problems at once.
D) To spend a long number of hours on particular problems and try to fix as many problems as possible.

Question 17

Another name for the Person-In-Environment approach is:

A) Strength based approach
B) Behavioral approach
C) Ecological approach
D) Family systems theory

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a definition of family?

A) Family is the primary group in which members share close and personal relationships, which are developed through shared activities, that last over a prolonged period of time.
B) A family group often exerts tremendous influence over its members in terms of behaviors, beliefs, communication styles, cultural transmission, social skills and efforts to meet basic human needs.
C) A family is a group of replaceable members who are incorporated through birth, adoption, commitment or marriage.
D) A family group helps members learn unique ways, with different capabilities and different levels of success in meeting their members' needs.

Question 19

What is a family of procreation?

A) Consists of a heterosexual couple, solely which through self or state of sanction, that has developed a relationship and has children.
B) Consists of a couple, whether through self or state of sanction, that has developed a relationship and has children.
C) Includes two or more family units.
D) Consists of two people living with at least one child from a previous relationship.

Question 20

Who was the first family social worker pioneer?

A) Virginia Satir
B) Alfred Adler
C) Mary Richmond
D) Abraham Maslow

Question 21

Family systems theory was adapted from:

A) chemistry
B) psychology
C) biology
D) sociology

Question 22

What are the different levels of the ecosystem:

A) Microsystem; macrosystem; ecological system; and exosystems
B) Microsystem; mesosystem; macrosystem; and exosystems
C) Microsystem; autonomical system; ecological system; and exosystems
D) Microsystem; mesosystem; autonomical system; and ecological system

Question 23

The book indicates that historically family social work has:

A) Focused on what was going wrong instead of what was going right.
B) Focused on what was going right instead of what was going wrong.
C) Has not focused on the issues at hand at all.
D) Has only focused on strengths.

Question 24

Which of these statements about culture is false?

A) Culture has an enormous impact on how the family life cycle unfolds, starting with how a family defines itself.
B) Culture impacts how families are formed.
C) Culture affects how families go through the family life cycle.
D) Gender roles and expectations do not play a role in culture.

Question 25

Boomerang children refers to:

A) Children who struggle with their cultural identities resulting in them changing religions several times.
B) Children in economically advantaged families who leave and return home many times.
C) Children who struggle with their sexual identity.
D) Children who struggle with financial issues after leaving home thus resulting in them seeking out outside supports.

Question 26

Which of the following levels of the ecosystem is the first layer of relationships consisting of face-to-face relationships within the family?

A) Exosytem
B) Macrosystem
C) Mesosystem
D) Microsystem

Question 27

To focus on strength-based practice family social workers need 4 skill sets describe in detail what these skills set are. Which of the following is one of the skill sets?

A) The ability to identify and use strengths
B) Cultural competency
C) Interpersonal sensitivity and knowledge
D) Relationship-supportive behavior
E) All of the above

Question 28

Which of the following most reflects an overview of the "Stages of Change" model developed by Prochaska and Diclemente:

A) That when a problem arises individuals progress through different phases of admitting and taking action on the problem.
B) A change in one family member affects all of the family members.
C) The family as a whole is more than the sum of its parts
D) Even healthy families have stressful times that impact their lives.

Question 29

What is one difference between religion and spirituality:

A) Religion is seen as extrinsic while spirituality is seen as intrinsic.
B) Spirituality has to do with two major foci of concerns - personal meaning and social belonging while religion struggles providing any foci of concerns.
C) Religion and spirituality are not different.
D) Can be all of the above.

Question 30

Reading past case notes might with some disadvantages including all but the following:

A) The family might have progressed past where it was since being in family social work.
B) The family social worker might have biases as a result of the notes.
C) The theoretical framework might slant the new worker.
D) The case notes might alert the family social worker to special issues and risks of working with the particular family.

Question 31

Which is not one of the three main ideas of systemic family work?

A) Problems occur as the result of ongoing patterns of communication within the family.
B) Crises encountered by the family create both instability and opportunities for change.
C) Families function according to established rules that must be altered before problems can be effectively and permanently resolved.
D) Issues created within the family system are often a result of short terms issues.

Question 32

What is called when interpersonal boundaries are too open and are overlapping?

A) Enmeshed
B) Disengaged
C) Self-sufficient
D) Triangulated

Question 33

When family social workers work with immigrant families they should do all but the following:

A) Recognize the impact that immigration has on families.
B) Recognize the reasons for immigration.
C) Recognize that older people will likely adapt easier.
D) Understand who came with the family and who remained behind.

Question 34

Why did feminist criticize family systems theory?

A) Feminists believe that the family systems theory places too much emphasis on providing people with diagnoses' instead of focusing on the root of the issue.
B) Feminists believe that the family systems theory does not take into account power within the family.
C) Feminists believe that the family systems theory generalizes concerns without focusing on all of the issues at hand.
D) Feminists believe that the family systems theory explores gender roles too much without placing value on family members as individuals.

Question 35

When can triangulation appear?

A) When people are not very involved with one another
B) When there are rigid boundaries within the family
C) When there are definite boundaries within the family
D) When a dyadic relationship is under stress and unstable and a third party is drawn into the relationship to stabilize the situation and defuse the tension

Question 36

Blacker (1999) suggests 3 conditions to return of adult children to their parent's home. Which one is not?

A) If the parent-child relationship is positive.
B) If the family agrees to continue to provide support.
C) If the parents have remained together rather than forming a new stepfamily or becoming a single-parent household.
D) If the children present as being ready to return home.

Question 37

The term 'empty nest' has been replaced by:

A) Launching stage
B) Individuality stage
C) Boomerang stage
D) Crossway stage

Question 38

When assessing a family from a resilience perspective the family social worker blends what two perspectives?

A) Sociological and behavioral perspectives
B) Ecological and developmental perspectives
C) Economical and behavioral perspectives
D) Economical and strengths-based perspective

Question 39

Another name for buffers to protect against risk is:

A) Protective factor
B) Strength based perspective
C) Protagonist factors
D) Anti risk factor

Question 40

Which of the following best describes the term resilience?

A) To focus on one's weaknesses in order to help improve them.
B) To look at the issues that has impeded ones functioning.
C) To look positively and be resourceful even when adverse advents transpire.
D) To try to solve one's problems without the support of others.

Question 41

The engagement stage is:

A) Is the first phase and is the process of establishing and maintaining a meaningful working relationship between the family social work and family.
B) The phase which involves identifying repetitive patterns and issues within the family that relate directly to the problem as well as identifying issues related to the nature of family relationships with the social environment.
C) Providing a clear intervention in order to help meet the family's goals.
D) The phase in which the family has clearly met the goal and are ready to terminate the intervention.

Question 42

Another term for engagement is:

A) Identifying
B) Assessing
C) Analyzing
D) Joining

Question 43

The goal of advanced empathy is to facilitate client ________, which, in turn, leads to new client goals and behaviors.

A) Empathy
B) Independence
C) Self-awareness
D) Autonomy

Question 44

Two levels of communication exist including:

A) Content and relation
B) Ambiguous and deliberate
C) Symmetrical and non symmetrical
D) Congruent and ambiguous

Question 45

Worden (1994) suggests all but which three crucial elements for developing a strong relationship with clients:

A) A consensus between the worker and client on goals of therapy
B) Worker-client agreement and collaboration on implementation of tasks
C) A strong, positive, affective bond between each member of the family and the worker
D) Special attention to be focused on one member of the family when problems arise

Question 46

A qualitative assessment tool that is represented on a grid is called:

A) Family Sculpture
B) Ecomap
C) Family Time Line
D) Genogram

Question 47

A genogram is a _______________ that can reveal who is included in the family.

A) Graphic family tree
B) Basically a genogram but demonstrates more who is in the family
C) Looks at circular patterns within the family
D) Problem solving technique

Question 48

The characteristic of _______ means to respect where the client is, even when the client's perspective eventually needs to be challenged.

A) Nonpossessive warmth
B) Attending
C) Self-awareness
D) Empathy

Question 49

Which of the following is not a condition that must be met before a family is ready to become involved in family social work?

A) The family is to agree as a family that a particular problem requires family social work.
B) The dominant party must determine that a particular problem requires family social work.
C) The family must connect with an appropriate agency.
D) The agency must determine whether the family's issues fit its mandate.

Question 50

The _________ needs is the most important and immediate, involving the physical need for food, water and physical sustenance.

A) Safety needs
B) Self-actualization needs
C) Physiological needs
D) Esteem needs

Question 51

According to Miller, Hubble, & Duncan (1995) models and technique contribute to approximately what percent of change?

A) 15%
B) 25%
C) 35%
D) 45%

Question 52

Which of the following is not an approach embedded in conducting a comprehensive assessment of families.

A) The interview
B) The observations
C) Checklists and instruments
D) The introduction

Question 53

_________ developed a theory of human needs, placing into a hierarchy that includes five broad layers.

A) Monica McGoldrik
B) Virginia Satir
C) Mary Richmond
D) Abraham Maslow

Question 54

_______ is a graphic family tree that can reveal who is included in the family.

A) Ecomap
B) Genogram
C) Family time lines
D) Split-halves method

Question 55

Two kinds of information necessary for assessment including:

A) Analysis and interviewing
B) Content and process
C) Introduction and interpretation
D) Exploration and anticipation

Question 56

Which of the below is not a family social work phase?

A) Engagement
B) Contemplation
C) Assessment
D) Intervention

Question 57

Miller, Hubble, & Duncan (1995) suggested that the relationship between the worker and client contributes to as much as ____ percent to the effective intervention.

A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 40%

Question 58

Which of the following behaviors most reflects the family social worker tuning in and focusing on all of the people in the interview? It also involves the worker listening to what the individual is saying.

A) Self-awareness
B) Empathy
C) Attending
D) Nonpossessive warmth

Question 59

Which of the following demonstrates what is revealed in an ecomap?

A) Revels the internal dynamics of the family
B) Is a concrete tool that helps identify repetitive patterns of a family
C) Captures individual perceptions of families and embedded relationships
D) The family's external dynamics and relationships

Question 60

Which of the following is not a qualitative tool available for a family assessment?

A) Split-halves method
B) Genograms
C) Ecomaps
D) Family time lines

Question 61

Which of the following mode of behavior control involves a fixed pattern of familial behavior that is intolerant of individual variation?

A) Flexible
B) Rigid
C) Laissez-faire
D) Chaotic

Question 62

Another word for reliability is:

A) Accountability
B) Suitability
C) Availability
D) Accuracy

Question 63

Using ____________ assessment refers to using descriptive methods to compile and make sense of family information including mapping techniques and focused open-ended interviewing.

A) Quantitative assessment
B) Qualitative assessment
C) Reliability assessment
D) Behavioral assessment

Question 64

Test construction theory evolved primary from:

A) Reliability measures theory
B) Comparison theory
C) Classical test theory
D) Alternative theory

Question 65

An example of lineal questions include:

A) Can you try to see it this way?
B) What do you plan on doing about finding a new job?
C) What brings you in today?
D) When Melissa said that she was upset with you, how did you react?

Question 66

What are the two expectations that validity is predicated?

A) That the validity is obtained is a reliable way and that sufficient amount of data has been gathered
B) That it measures the concept in question and that the concept is measured accurately
C) That there are commonalities and that it is standardized
D) That it measures the data effectively and ensures that it explores solutions

Question 67

Which of the types of validity is considered the weakest approach to determining validity?

A) Content validity
B) Criterion-related validity
C) Face validity
D) Factorial validity

Question 68

Which of the following models to assess family functioning conceives of family functioning as falling on two continua: adaptability and cohesion?

A) Family Assessment Measure
B) Circumplex Model of family functioning
C) Family Categories Schema
D) Timberlawn Family Evaluation Scale

Question 69

The reliability of a measure varies between the values of:

A) 1 and 100
B) 0 and 1
C) 25 and 50
D) 50 and 100

Question 70

Gilbert (2011) predicted by the year 2050, racial and ethnic minorities will represent nearly ___ percent of the population.

A) 25%
B) 39.6%
C) 12.8%
D) 49.9%

Question 71

Range of emotions can be divided into two major categories including:

A) Welfare emotions and emergency emotions
B) Communicative emotions and strength based emotions
C) Reciprocal emotions and clear emotions
D) Process emotions and structured emotions

Question 72

What two categories is criterion-related validity subdivided?

A) Recessive and generic
B) Indicative and observable
C) Automatic and responsive
D) Concurrent and predictive

Question 73

Which of the types of validity involves comparing scores with external criteria that have been previously validated and shown to be reliable?

A) Content validity
B) Criterion-related validity
C) Face validity
D) Factorial validity

Question 74

The Milan group falls under the:

A) Suggestive family work approaches
B) Strategic family work approaches
C) Analytical family work approaches
D) Abstract family work approaches

Question 75

Which of the following method involves estimating reliability, involves splitting the scale into 2 parts and examining the correlation between them?

A) Split-halves method
B) Test-retest method
C) Alternative form method
D) Internal consistency method

Question 76

Another name for case-level design is:

A) Goal attainment scaling
B) Problem solving design
C) Single-subject design
D) Test-retest design

Question 77

Which of the following suggests the problem is the solution?

A) Social systems theory
B) Traditional analytic view
C) Narrative Model
D) Milan group

Question 78

Which of the following four indicators of school adjustment best shows an example of ethnically diverse parents and children fearing the school or view it negatively if the values of the dominant culture differ drastically from those of the family?

A) Behavioral adjustment
B) Academic achievement
C) Psychological adjustment
D) Relationship with peers

Question 79

Which kind of design asks (1) if the problem exists at different levels over time, and (2), if the problem is changing by itself?

A) A design
B) B design
C) AB design
D) BB design

Question 80

When selecting a measurement instrument it is important that it be both:

A) Reliable and valid
B) Concrete and structured
C) Observable and differential
D) Comprehensive and indifferent