Social Work Practice 1 Final Exam:

Social Work Practice 1 Final Exam:

Questions & Answers Social Work has the following in common with other helping professions, such as counseling, psychology, and psychiatry

• they all target the environment for change when necessary
• they all stress advocacy for clients
• they all have a common core for interviewing and counseling skills
• they all primarily target medication for solving mental health problems
• all the above Correct Ans - c. they all have a common core for

interviewing and counseling skills The following is NOT true about general systems theory

• major terms include "system", "homeostasis," and "equifinality"
• the concept of social environment is grounded in systems theory
• major terms include "person-in-environment interface and adaptation
• it refers to lying, dynamic interaction Correct Ans - c. major terms

include "person-in-environment interface and adaptation

In generalist social work practice, the unit of attention can refer to:

• an individual
• a small group
• a large agency
• all the above Correct Ans - d. all the above

Systems theory and the ecological perspective have the following similarities:

• all of their terms are identical
• both emphasize helping people improve their interactions with other

systems

• both refer to interactions only among human being Correct Ans - b.

both emphasize helping people improve their interactions with other systems 1 / 3

The text defines ______ as the ability of an individual, family, group, community, or organization to recover from adversity and resume functioning even when suffering serious trouble, confusion, or hardship?

• strength
• resistance
• stoicism
• compliance
• resliency Correct Ans - e. resliency

Micro-level skills include:

• basic relationship-building and interviewing skills used with individual

clients

• skills for changing agency policies
• group process skills Correct Ans - a. basic relationship-building and

interviewing skills used with individual clients

Mezzo-level skills involve working with:

• small groups
• agencies
• organizations
• individual clients Correct Ans - c. organizations

This professional role describes when a social worker steps forward and speaks out on behalf of clients in order to promote fair and equitable treatment or gain needed resources

• case management
• broker
• advocate
• facilitator
• mobilizer Correct Ans - c. advocate

The professional role describes when a social worker coordinates on behalf of a specific client, needed services provided by any number of agencies, organizations, or facilities 2 / 3

• case management
• broker
• advocate
• facilitator
• mobilizer Correct Ans - a. case management

The professional role describes when a social worker identifies and convenes community people and resources to identify unmet community needs and effect changes for the better

• case management
• broker
• advocate
• facilitator
• mobilizer Correct Ans - e. mobilizer

The profession role for guiding a group's existence:

• case management
• broker
• advocate
• facilitator
• mobilizer Correct Ans - d. facilitator

Term to describe the professional role when a social worker links client

systems to needed resources:

• case management
• broker
• advocate
• facilitator
• mobilizer Correct Ans - b. broker

_____ entails the ability to carefully evaluate the validity of an assumption and even of a so-called fact

• crucial assimilation
• critical thinking
• credible validity
• / 3