Early programs of poor relief in America largely reflected programs developed previously in:
England
Consistent with the residual conception of social welfare is the view that:
Funds and services should be provided primarily during emergencies on a short-term basis
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
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:
Devolution revolution
Which of the following categories was (were) established by the Elizabethan Poor Law:
The able-bodied poor
Dependent children
Linda Gordon notes that the stigmatization of the AFDC program first
began to occur on a large scale in the 1950s and 1960s because:
An expectation began to grow that women should work outside the home
The divorce rate was increasing, which left more women alone to raise their children
Black women began asserting that the right to receive welfare (AFDC) was one they were entitled to as citizens, just like the right to vote
The 1601 Elizabethan Poor Law established which three categories of relief recipients:
The able-bodied, poor, the impotent poor, and dependent children
Private social agencies:
Provided most of the funds and social services in the 19th century
The political philosophy of liberalism asserts that:
The government should regulate business and industry in society
Financial support of social welfare programs by the federal government in America began on a large scale:
In the 1930s
Social welfare overlaps with social work primarily at a:
Practice level
The United States spends a higher percentage of its gross national product on social welfare programs than any other country in the world.
false
Blaming social welfare clients for their predicaments is consistent with the institutional view of social welfare.
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:
Empowerment
Mezzo practice in social work involves:
Working with families and other small groups
Reasons for the renewed interest of social work in sociological approaches to helping people include:
Questioning of the effectiveness of many psychotherapeutic approaches
Mood of the 1960s, which raised questions about the relevance of social institutions in meeting social needs
Charity organization societies used volunteer "friendly visitors" extensively to work with recipients of services.
true
______ aims at helping individuals on a one-to-one basis to meet personal and social problems:
Social casework
Functions of charity organization societies included:
Providing direct services to individuals and families
Planning and coordinating the efforts of private agencies
The text suggests that the most basic skill that a social worker needs is the ability to effectively counsel clients.
true
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
Since 1960 there has been a renewed interest among social workers in environmental approaches to helping people in need
Analogous to a general practitioner in medicine, a social worker should have a wide range of skills and intervention techniques.
true
____ 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:
Community organization
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
Seeking to maintain the power structure that has made America great
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
A medical model of human behavior focuses on the dysfunctional
transactions between people and their physical and social environments.
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
____
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:
Empowerment
Group therapy has which of the following advantages over individual therapy:
Allows for the helper therapy principle to operate
Helps members put their problems into perspective by helping them to realize that others have problems as serious as theirs
Allows the therapist to save time by treating more than one person at a time
Disciplines that provide training in community practice include:
Social work
Community psychology
Urban and regional planning
Health planning
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:
Negotiator
A skill needed for social work practice is:
Listening to others with understanding and purpose
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
Which of the following is not a self-help group:
Planned Parenthood
Absolute confidentiality with respect to information revealed to social
work professionals by clients is almost always maintained.
false
One of the most useful evaluation techniques is management by objectives.
true
Satir asserts that:
Family members in troubled families are apt to communicate with
incongruent messages and double-bind messages and by indirectly
expressing their thoughts and feelings
According to the text, bureaucratic systems:
Place heavy emphasis on structure and maintaining the status quo
Which of the following models of community practice stresses the role of the expert and expertise in resolving social problems:
Social planning
When social workers link individuals or groups who need help with community services, they are fulfilling the role of:
Broker
If every able-bodied adult were employed, poverty would be eliminated.
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:
Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance
Which best describes the programs enacted by the Elizabeth Poor Law?
The able-bodied poor were offered work and if they refused, they were whipped, imprisoned, or sent back to their birthplace.
The impotent poor (the elderly and disabled) were either given public relief or placed in almshouses.
Childrens whose parents could not provide for them were bound out as apprentices to other adults.
Food Stamps primarily have “residual” aspects.
true
The following program or federal act has a requirement that adult
recipients of public assistance (who have children) must seek
employment:
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
Someone that sees themselves as having institutional values would most likely be a republican.
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:
Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance
If every able-bodied adult were employed, poverty would be eliminated.
false
Which social insurance program has two parts: hospital insurance and medical insurance?
Medicare
Which one is not a cause of poverty?
High educational level
Who are the poor people in our society?
Children
Single parent families
People of color
More than one in five people on this planet survive on less than $1 a day.
true
The poverty cycle states that because of low educational background, someone can be locked into poverty.
true
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
In most instances poverty isn't passed on from generation to generation.
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
The following personality disorder involves a pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others:
Antisocial
Rational therapy states that emotions stem mainly from:
Self-talk
In counseling people, which of the following should you not (generally) do:
Give advice
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:
Personality disorders
The problem(s) with labeling a person “mentally ill” is (are):
The practice of labeling people “mentally ill” who do not conform to social expectations is sometimes used as a means of social control over people
The mental illness labeling process may be the single most important determinant of chronic mental illness
A psychosis manifested by disturbances of language and communication,
thought, perception, affect, and behavior that lasts longer than six
months is:
Schizophrenia
The
following personality disorder involves a pattern of marked impulsivity
and of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and
affects:
Borderline
According to Szasz, bizarre homicides are:
Social deviances
According to Szasz, a serious depression is apt to be a:
Personal disability
Factors involved in a person being labeled mentally ill include:
The person displays deviant behavior
The person's family or community will no longer tolerate his or her behavior
The views of mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists,
and social workers) as to what types of deviant behaviors constitute a
mental illness
Bipolar disorder is a(n):
Major affective disorder in which there are episodes of both mania and depression
