Deck 1: Social Work: a Helping Profession

Question 1

______ 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.

A)Environmental competence
B)Social justice
C)Cultural competence
D)Universal basic needs

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

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

Answer 3

not answered

Question 4

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) ______.

A)institutional
B)substitutive
C)supportive
D)residual

Question 5

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

Question 6

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.

Question 7

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

A)Private troubles translate into public issues.
B)Troubles occur within the character of the individual
C)The solutions for personal troubles and public issues reside in separate realms.
D)Public issues are in the public domain and have no bearing on personal troubles.

Question 8

Empowerment is best described as ______.

A)a sense of personal competence
B)a sociopolitical influence
C)having personal and sociopolitical dimensions
D)a sense of being in control

Question 9

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

A)Social work as an agent of social control on behalf of society.
B)Social work as an intermediary between individuals and society.
C)Social work as a reformer of society.
D)Social work as separate from society.

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

A)understand problems in context and consider interventions at all system levels
B)work exclusively with individual families and children
C)have a job description which excludes policy concerns
D)leave research concerns to specialists

Question 12

Delineate the goals of generalist social work.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

A)a process
B)an outcome
C)both a process and an outcome
D)a radical political position unrelated to current social work practice.

Question 15

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.

A)Only Ogden reflects the true social work purpose.
B)Jolene and Sarah's work reflects social work purpose.
C)Sarah's work, while concerned with social justice, is tangential to social work purpose.
D)Jolene, Ogden, and Sarah all reflect the purpose of social work in their work activities.

Question 16

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.

Question 17

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

A)Physiological, esteem, security, self-actualization
B)Security, physiological, self-actualization, esteem
C)Physiological, security, belonging, esteem
D)Self-actualization, esteem, belonging, physiological

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

A)International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
B)Convention on the Rights of the Child
C)International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
D)Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 20

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