Question 1

Discuss guidelines for confidentiality as a family social worker.

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Question 2

Until recently, traditional family systems workers failed to connect family problems to socially prescribed gender roles and power imbalances.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

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

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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.

Question 4

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

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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 5

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

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

Question 6

Describe some family protective factors.

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Question 7

What is the purpose of confrontation?

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A)  To help the family social worker explain, describe, or teach a concept to a family. 
B)  To develop a comprehensive understanding of the ways the family experiences the world. 
C)  To raise awareness by presenting information that the client is overlooking or failing to identify. 
D)  To remove a situation from an old context and placing it in a new context that defines it equally well.

Question 8

What are the different levels of the ecosystem:

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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 9

Test construction theory evolved primary from:

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

Question 10

Describe two of the types of questions that Karl Tomm (1987a, 1987b, 1988) describes as being appropriate for family interviewing.

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Question 11

The behavioral family approach is compatible with the family life cycle in that phases of family development require that members adapt to a continuously changing and maturing family system.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Two levels of communication exist including:

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

Question 13

Another name given to the baby boomers is:

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A)  The elderly 
B)  The boomerang generation 
C)  The sandwich generation 
D)  The primary generation

Question 14

What are some key considerations a family social worker should follow when working with families?

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Question 15

Female children are more likely to manifest problems immediately after witnessing domestic violence.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

What specific tasks should be accomplished prior to the first home visit with a family?

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Question 17

Early versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual originally classified homosexuality as:

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A)  Something that should be normalized 
B)  A mistaken view by an individual that can easily be changed 
C)  A psychopathology placing a label that some gay or lesbians are mentally ill 
D)  A result of poor parenting

Question 18

Family social work embraces all but what objectives:

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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 19

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

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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

Question 20

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

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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.

Exam 1: An Introduction to Family Social Work Questionaire

Discuss guidelines for confidentiality as a family social worker.

Until recently, traditional family systems workers failed to connect family problems to socially prescribed gender roles and power imbalances.

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

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

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

Describe some family protective factors.

What is the purpose of confrontation?

What are the different levels of the ecosystem:

Test construction theory evolved primary from:

Describe two of the types of questions that Karl Tomm (1987a, 1987b, 1988) describes as being appropriate for family interviewing.

The behavioral family approach is compatible with the family life cycle in that phases of family development require that members adapt to a continuously changing and maturing family system.

Two levels of communication exist including:

Another name given to the baby boomers is:

What are some key considerations a family social worker should follow when working with families?

Female children are more likely to manifest problems immediately after witnessing domestic violence.

What specific tasks should be accomplished prior to the first home visit with a family?

Early versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual originally classified homosexuality as:

Family social work embraces all but what objectives:

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

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