Deck 24: The Engineering of Social Work

Question 1

What are the two functions of engineering?

A) Metaphor for retooling and bolstering the labor force
B) Restructuring collaboration and integrating a problem-solving approach
C) Integrating a problem-solving approach and bolstering the labor force
D) Metaphor for retooling and using media in social work

Answer 1

Metaphor for retooling and using media in social work

Question 2

Why is retooling social work and engineering needed?

A) To improve care, protection, and services
B) To improve health care for the underserved, uninsured, and at-risk groups
C) To bolster labor force and to address the American Academy of Social Work Grand Challenge
D) To improve access to the labor force and technology

Answer 2

To bolster labor force and to address the American Academy of Social Work Grand Challenge

Question 3

What is the aim of a grand challenge?

A) To respond to the root cause of societal dysfunction
B) To merge academia with practitioners in the field of engineering through innovation to respond to world problems
C) To increase access to the technological needs of society
D) To bolster innovation

Answer 3

To merge academia with practitioners in the field of engineering through innovation to respond to world problems

Question 4

What are the benefits of a grand challenge?

A) Creating trans-disciplinary communities of innovators and programming services for community treatment
B) Goal setting and implementing change agents
C) Galvanizing the profession, capturing general public interest, and advancing social work
D) Risk reduction and galvanizing the profession

Question 5

Of the two risks of a grand challenge, which suggests that there is no control over the process?

A) Capturing general public interest for the advancement of social work and science
B) Offering no guarantee of success
C) Placing demands on individuals and organizations
D) Galvanizing the profession

Question 6

What is the theme of the call that was iterated by Elizabeth Clark, Executive Director of the NASW?

A) Reaffirm, Revisit, and Reimagine
B) Reimagine, Rethink, and Reconstruct
C) Re-structure, Retool, and Re-evaluate
D) Reaffirm, Revisit, and Retool

Question 7

The Welcoming Practices in Military-Connected Schools program funded by the Department of Defense Education Activity is applicable to research and what specific practice model?

A) Restorative model
B) Transition model
C) Termination model
D) Prevention model

Question 8

In addition to the popularity of apps, what technology in the information sciences is growing in popularity?

A) Visualization and spatial science
B) Geographical Information Science (GIS)
C) Social work apps
D) Cloud networks

Question 9

In what realms is it important to infuse behavioral, spiritual, emotional, cognitive, and biological in multi-theoretical and evidence-based interventions?

A) Social, cultural, community, ecology, and political realms
B) Biological, psychological, social, and spiritual realms
C) Spiritual, social, cultural, and political realms
D) Cognitive, social, and psychological realms

Question 10

Grand challenges are important for social work.

Question 11

The American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare crafted the Grand Challenges for social work.

Question 12

Grand challenges respond to a call for social workers to engage in inquiry, innovation, testing, and application.

Question 13

Past models of success in social work that responded to grand challenges include the Children's Bureau Infant Mortality Campaign and the Program of Assertive Community Treatment.

Question 14

One benefit of a grand challenge is that it places demands on individuals and organizations.

Question 15

GIS is never used to analyze geographical locations in a meaningful way through visualization and spatial science.

Question 16

The welcoming practice program was used to cultivate an intradisciplinary partnership in technology for at-risk persons.

Question 17

Technology is being used both professionally and socially in social work, but plays a minimal role in social work practice.

Question 18

Engineering and social work can launch a productive partnership using structured technological enhancements such as apps, web-design, and research methodology.

Question 19

One purpose of engineering is to use technology in cross-collaborative ways to reach vulnerable client populations.

Question 20

Why is collaboration important in social work?

Question 21

What are the five ways in which Geographical Information Science can benefit social work?

Question 22

What is the process wherein grand challenges are placed in the context of a location and a certain amount of time to achieve a goal?

Question 23

Describe aspects of the welcoming practices program than can be used effectively to replicate collaboration.

Question 24

Describe two factors of re-tooling social work to collaborate with engineering.