Deck 1: Introduction

Question 1

Incorporated in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (Council on Social Work Education, 2015) graduates of accredited social work programs should be able to:

A)maintain the status quo in a society.
B)adopt helping processes that involve prescription, direction, or coercion.
C)use the same set of social work skills with all people and in all contexts.
D)engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true of the social work mission?

A)It is similar to legal, medical, and psychology professions.
B)It seeks to maintain the status quo in a society.
C)It restricts social changes.
D)It includes radical and, in some contexts, revolutionary aspirations.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Critical thinking and lifelong learning are considered dimensions of professionalism.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following is a risk associated with a phase-to-phase or stage-to-stage approach to social work?

A)It encourages unethical social work practices.
B)It overlooks the fact that sometimes work usually undertaken in one phase emerges in another.
C)It suggests that the dynamics, tasks, functions, and skills applicable to one phase are evident in other phases as well, making the process complex.
D)It suggests that the engagement and assessment phases of social work practice can be eliminated but in reality this is not possible.

Question 5

Social workers view the social work skills as technical activities to complete, robotlike, at exactly the same relative time and in precisely the same way with all clients and all situations.

Question 6

In the context of social work practices, which of the following skills supports the engagement competency?

A)The contracting, empathic, and questioning skills
B)The working and evaluating skills
C)The ending skills
D)The preparing, beginning, and exploring skills

Question 7

According to The Oxford English Dictionary (Online), a _____ is a "vocation or calling, especially one that involves some branch of advanced learning or science."

A)craze
B)quest
C)hobby
D)profession

Question 8

In the context of social work, which of the following statements is true?

A)Social workers attend exclusively to problems faced by people rather than looking for people's strengths, assets, and abilities.
B)The social work mission involves the elimination of "discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice."
C)Social workers seek to maintain the status quo in a society rather than empowering and liberating people.
D)The social work mission requires the use of esoteric terminology rather than the use of the "language of the people."

Question 9

Which of the following is a characteristic of social workers?

A)They attempt to use esoteric terminology rather than attempting to speak the "language of the people."
B)They view individuals as completely free-willed creatures who can readily choose to become whatever and whomever they wish to become, regardless of current or past circumstances.
C)They always consider and usually involve other people or other social systems in the helping process.
D)They dismiss the idea that many communities are predisposed to react favorably or unfavorably to individual characteristics beyond their personal control.

Question 10

How will you decide which social work skills to use and when and how to use them in your profession as a social worker?

Question 11

Social workers who use a person-in-environment perspective, with strong emphasis on the environment, _____.

A)avoid assigning responsibility for social problems to traits of individual persons
B)tend to believe that people lack the potential for planned change
C)avoid involving other people in the social work mission
D)use esoteric terminology rather than the "language of the people"

Question 12

Incorporated in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (Council on Social Work Education, 2015), graduates of accredited social work programs should be able to engage diversity and difference in practice.

Question 13

The use of a person-in-environment perspective encourages a phenomenon called blaming the victim.

Question 14

Ethical decision making is an aspect of professionalism.

Question 15

In the context of the phases of social work practice, the ending skills support the engagement competency.

Question 16

Social workers tend to view person-in-environment, person-and-environment, or person-in-context as the basic unit of attention.

Question 17

In the context of the phases of social work practice, the preparing, beginning, and exploring skills support the intervention competency.

Question 18

Discuss the knowledge, values, attitudes, qualities, and abilities required to become an effective social worker.Identify your strengths and weaknesses as a social worker.

Question 19

Which of the following statements is true of a social work skill?

A)It enables a social worker to maintain the status quo in a society while helping the underprivileged groups.
B)It should be applied mechanically or bureaucratically to all people and in all contexts.
C)It eliminates the need for professionalism in social work.
D)It is a circumscribed set of discrete cognitive and behavioral actions that are consistent and congruent with research-based knowledge.

Question 20

Which of the following is a phase of social work practice outlined in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards?

A)Engage
B)Negotiate
C)Model
D)Compromise