Deck 2: Articulating Four Rationales for Participating in Policy Advocacy

Question 1

Policy-sensitive practice occurs:

A) When social workers make professional recommendations with sensitivity to their clients' economic, social, and policy realities.
B) When social workers directly intercede, as advocates, with other agencies on behalf of a client.
C) When social workers act as case managers.
D) When professional advocates consult directly with legislators.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Social policy advocates must concentrate their efforts on one rationale that they feel most strongly about.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Beneficence means:

A) Altruism that is inherent in the professional role.
B) The moral imperative to enhance clients' well-being.
C) The receiving of benefits from social programs.
D) Going beyond the typical policy advocate role.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Empirical research:

A) Is concrete and dependable.
B) Should be scrutinized as it can sometimes be misleading.
C) Is based on applied theory.
D) Is considered a dated tool no longer used in policy practice.

Question 5

Which of the following is a type of policy-related service?

A) Case advocacy.
B) All of the choices are policy-related services.
C) Brokerage.
D) Liaison.

Question 6

In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls argues that by imagining internal arrangements through the "veil of ignorance," we conclude that:

A) Society should allow only those inequalities that will preserve or further the common good of society.
B) Members of society should perpetuate their own personal economic well-being, even if others do not share in it.
C) Most people would take a chance on being stuck in the lower reaches of a relatively in-egalitarian society.
D) If we do not want to live in inner-city areas without adequate health care and other amenities, we should pick up and move elsewhere.

Question 7

Traditional social work values, such as social justice and fairness:

A) Require social workers to become policy advocates.
B) Create effective clinicians.
C) Help determine treatment planning for direct service clients.
D) Promote agency involvement in client difficulties.

Question 8

__________ believe in the effectiveness of the private markets.

A) Conservatives
B) Radicals
C) Liberals
D) All of the choices are correct.

Question 9

How is policy advocacy justified from an ethical standpoint?

A) Social workers are more moral than the average population.
B) Social workers are obliged to ensure that some clients receive more opportunities than others.
C) Inequalities within society are morally objectionable.
D) Intellectual challenges should not play a part in social policy.

Question 10

Which of the following is necessary when performing a policy-related activity?

A) Helping a client to overcome feelings of insecurity.
B) Identifying policies that exacerbate the suffering of a client.
C) Connecting a client with an agency or network.
D) Empowering a client to assert his or her rights.

Question 11

Utilitarians believe that:

A) Scientific data has no connection to social policy making.
B) When creating social policy, ethical and moral choices are more important than economic factors.
C) It is important to be objective and not let personal circumstance influence decision making.
D) Policies should be supported by research and social science.

Question 12

Nonparticipation in the voting process:

A) Is a vote for the values of those who do participate.
B) Provides more affluent members of society with more power.
C) Can put low-income persons at a disadvantage in the voting process.
D) All of the choices are correct.

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the four rationales for policy advocacy?

A) The political rationale.
B) The analytic rationale.
C) The liberal rationale.
D) The electoral rationale.

Question 14

An eclectic approach to ethical reasoning argues that moral and ethic principles, practical considerations, cultural norms, and the results of empirical data should ALL be considered.

Question 15

Social workers need to engage in policy practice because:

A) The Code of Ethics strongly encourages it.
B) They often bring distinctive viewpoints to the process.
C) They have to advocate for their self interests.
D) All of the choices are correct.

Question 16

Liberals are more likely than conservatives to want to:

A) Support roles for state and local governments.
B) Support free-market approaches, such as vouchers.
C) Support additional taxes for social programs.
D) Use the economic regulatory powers of the government to address problems in the workings of the private markets.

Question 17

The NASW Code of Ethics:

A) Makes policy advocacy an optional activity.
B) Focuses only on such issues as confidentiality.
C) Requires all social workers to engage in policy advocacy.
D) Limits policy advocacy to macro practitioners in social work.

Question 18

Which strategies are social workers more likely to suggest?

A) Competitive strategies.
B) Cooperative strategies.
C) Power strategies.
D) Economic strategies.

Question 19

A social worker should liaison with an advocacy group in order to:

A) Implement affirmative action policies.
B) Initiate a project.
C) Assist a specific vulnerable population.
D) Join the NASW.

Question 20

It is important to vote so that:

A) Sympathetic legislators are part of government.
B) Social workers will be part of the legislative chamber.
C) The president will make social policy a priority.
D) The media will publicize favorable policies.