social work 1-5

Early programs of poor relief in America largely reflected programs developed previously in:

Consistent with the residual conception of social welfare is the view that:

Human services is a broader term than social welfare
because it includes services that are not usually considered social
welfare services, such as library services and firefighting.
True False

The ____ refers to the fact that decisions about the provision of key
social welfare programs are being transferred from the federal
government to the state level:

Which of the following categories was (were) established by the Elizabethan Poor Law:

Linda Gordon notes that the stigmatization of the AFDC program first
began to occur on a large scale in the 1950s and 1960s because:

The 1601 Elizabethan Poor Law established which three categories of relief recipients:

Private social agencies:

The political philosophy of liberalism asserts that:

Financial support of social welfare programs by the federal government in America began on a large scale:

Social welfare overlaps with social work primarily at a:

The United States spends a higher percentage of its gross national product on social welfare programs than any other country in the world.
True False

Blaming social welfare clients for their predicaments is consistent with the institutional view of social welfare.
True False

____ is the process
of helping individuals, families, groups, and communities to increase
their personal, interpersonal, socio-economic, and political strength
and to develop influence toward improving their circumstances:

Mezzo practice in social work involves:

Reasons for the renewed interest of social work in sociological approaches to helping people include:

Charity organization societies used volunteer "friendly visitors" extensively to work with recipients of services.
True False

______ aims at helping individuals on a one-to-one basis to meet personal and social problems:

Functions of charity organization societies included:

The text suggests that the most basic skill that a social worker needs is the ability to effectively counsel clients.
True False

The following is (are) true:
The main objective of the environmental reform approach to helping people is to enable clients to adapt and adjust to their social situations
The psychiatric approach to helping people focuses on changing the system to better meet the needs of people
Since 1960 there has been a renewed interest among social workers in environmental approaches to helping people in need
All of the above

Analogous to a general practitioner in medicine, a social worker should have a wide range of skills and intervention techniques.
True False

____ is the process of stimulating and assisting the local community to
evaluate, plan, and coordinate its efforts to provide for the
community's health, welfare, and recreation needs:

All of the following are goals of social work practice except:
Enhancing the problem-solving, coping, and developmental capabilities of people
Linking people with systems that provide them with resources, services, and opportunities
Seeking to maintain the power structure that has made America great
Promoting the effectiveness and humane operation of systems that provide people with resources and services
Developing and improving social policy

Systems
theory suggests that if one family member improves through counseling,
that improvement will generally upset the balance within the family and
force other family members to make changes.
True False

A medical model of human behavior focuses on the dysfunctional
transactions between people and their physical and social environments.
True False

The basic principle
of generalist practice is that social workers are able to utilize the
problem-solving process to intervene with various size systems including
individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
True False

____
is the process of helping individuals, families, groups, organizations,
and communities increase their personal, interpersonal, socioeconomic,
and political strength and influence through improving their
circumstances:

Group therapy has which of the following advantages over individual therapy:

Disciplines that provide training in community practice include:

In the following role, the social worker brings together those who are
in conflict over one or more issues, and seeks to bargain and compromise
in order to arrive at mutually acceptable agreements:

A skill needed for social work practice is:

The principle of
self-determination asserts that clients have the right to hold and
express their own opinions and to act upon them, as long as in doing so
they do not infringe upon the rights of others.
True False

Which of the following is not a self-help group:

Absolute confidentiality with respect to information revealed to social
work professionals by clients is almost always maintained.
True False

One of the most useful evaluation techniques is management by objectives.
True False

Satir asserts that:

According to the text, bureaucratic systems:

Which of the following models of community practice stresses the role of the expert and expertise in resolving social problems:

When social workers link individuals or groups who need help with community services, they are fulfilling the role of:

If every able-bodied adult were employed, poverty would be eliminated.
True False

Which of the following programs is referred to as “social security” by
the general public and is designed to partially replace income lost when
a worker retires or becomes disabled:

Which best describes the programs enacted by the Elizabeth Poor Law?

Food Stamps primarily have “residual” aspects.
True False

The following program or federal act has a requirement that adult
recipients of public assistance (who have children) must seek
employment:

Someone that sees themselves as having institutional values would most likely be a republican.
True False

Which of the following programs is referred to as “social security” by
the general public and is designed to partially replace income lost when
a worker retires or becomes disabled:

If every able-bodied adult were employed, poverty would be eliminated.
True False

Which social insurance program has two parts: hospital insurance and medical insurance?

Which one is not a cause of poverty?

Who are the poor people in our society?

More than one in five people on this planet survive on less than $1 a day.
True False

The poverty cycle states that because of low educational background, someone can be locked into poverty.
True False

The Aid to Families with Dependent Children program was set up in 1935
to benefit young children in female-headed families by making it
possible for their mothers to remain at home.
True False

In most instances poverty isn't passed on from generation to generation.
True False

Szasz asserts that the notion that people who have emotional problems
are mentally ill is as absurd as the belief that the emotionally
disturbed are possessed by demons.
True False

The following personality disorder involves a pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others:

Rational therapy states that emotions stem mainly from:

In counseling people, which of the following should you not (generally) do:

Enduring patterns of inner experience and behavior that deviate markedly
from the expectations of culture, which are pervasive and inflexible,
have an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, are stable over time,
and lead to distress or disability, are classified in DSM-IV-TR as:

The problem(s) with labeling a person “mentally ill” is (are):

A psychosis manifested by disturbances of language and communication,
thought, perception, affect, and behavior that lasts longer than six
months is:

The
following personality disorder involves a pattern of marked impulsivity
and of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and
affects:

According to Szasz, bizarre homicides are:

According to Szasz, a serious depression is apt to be a:

Factors involved in a person being labeled mentally ill include:

Bipolar disorder is a(n):