Introduction to Social Work
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Social Work provides an overview of the social work profession, its historical development, core values, ethical principles, and various practice settings. The course explores the roles and responsibilities of social workers in addressing individual, family, and community needs, with a focus on promoting social justice, human rights, and empowerment. Students will learn about the fundamental theories, methods, and skills used in social work practice, as well as the impact of diversity, inequality, and policy on service delivery. Through case studies and discussion, students are introduced to real-world challenges and the multidisciplinary approaches used by social workers to enhance well-being across diverse populations.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Behavior and the Social Environment
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Q1) The broker is the person who calls attention to an issue.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Outcome is a more general term than output for the result of a process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The social work role that involves resolving arguments or conflicts among micro,mezzo,or macro systems is the:
A) Enabler
B) Mediator
C) Integrator/coordinator
D) Manager
Answer: B
Q4) The social planning model emphasizes a technical process of problem solving.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Biological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) Research has shown that serious psychological distress is far more prevalent after having an abortion than the occurrence of postpartum depression in women who carry their pregnancies to term.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) _____ -year-olds are in the process of separating from their parents and begin to prefer the company of other children over adults.
A) 2½
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
Answer: C
Q3) It is possible for sperm to remain viable for up to 72 hours.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Psychological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) The analytic area of giftedness is the ability to be insightful,creative,perceptive,and imaginative.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The conceptual dimension of adaptive functioning of people with intellectual disabilities entails conducting necessary daily tasks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is true about Erich Fromm:
A) He had a primarily biological orientation in his analysis of human behavior
B) He used psychoanalysis as a tool for understanding the behavior ofpolitical leaders
C) His approach was called analytic psychology
D) He proposed the idea of an inherited collective unconscious
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Social Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) _____is the process whereby reinforcement for a behavior stops,resulting in the eventual decrease in frequency and possible eradication of that behavior.
A) Eradication
B) Extinction
C) Expungement
D) Obliteration
Q2) Negative entropy is the natural tendency of a system to progress toward disorganization,depletion,and,in essence,death.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _____ reinforcers are rewarding in themselves,without any association with other reinforcers.
A) Secondary
B) Intermediary
C) Self reward
D) Primary
Q4) Abused children frequently show developmental delays.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Ethnocentrism and Racism
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Q1) The following is true about race:
A) There are clearly delineating characteristics of any race
B) Each racial group has unique and distinctive genes
C) Race becomes a very dangerous myth when it is assumed that physical traits are linked with mental traits and cultural achievements
D) The fact that some studies have found that African Americans tend to receive, on the average, somewhat lower scores on IQ tests unquestionably demonstrates that African Americans are biologically inferior in intelligence
Q2) It is possible for an ethnic group to be composed of a variety of races.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the concepts of projection and frustration-aggression as sources of prejudice and discrimination.
Q4) Define Anglo-conformity.
Q5) A key instrument used in an asset-based model of community development is a needs survey.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Summarize the arguments for and against continuing affirmative action programs.
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Chapter 6: Biological Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Less than 30 percent of tenth-graders in the United States say they have tried drinking alcohol.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Progestin is an artificial substance that mimics the natural female hormone progesterone.
A)True
B)False
Q3) First intercourse tends to occur earlier now than it did in the past.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In about 90 percent of _____ cases,the body's immune system will clear up the virus within about two years.
A) Human immunodeficiency virus
B) Scabies
C) Trichomoniasis
D) Human papillomavirus
Q5) Syphilis is much more deadly than gonorrhea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Psychological Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Describe the seven stages of Fowler's Theory of Faith,including the criticisms.
Q2) Kohlberg reasons that women's moral development is often based on their personal interest and commitment to the good of others close to them.
A)True
B)False
Q3) List and explain Marcia's four categories of identity.
Q4) According to Kohlberg,during Stage 1 of the Preconventional Level of moral development,the opinions of others are very important,and behavior is governed by conforming to the expectations of others.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss your assertive rights.
Q6) The following is true about Erikson's stage entitled "initiative versus guilt":
A) Mastering academic skills is very important during this stage
B) Children in this stage often are desperately seeking intimate relationships
C) Comparison with the productivity of peers becomes very important
D) This stage relates to preschoolers aged 3 to 6 years
Q7) List the major symptoms that identify a potentially suicidal person. Explain the relationships between the symptoms and suicide.
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Chapter 8: Social Development in Adolescence
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Q1) The distributed-functions approach disagrees with the great person theory of leadership.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Some people seek to temporarily relieve intense unwanted emotions through the use of alcohol and other drugs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The _____ self-concept states that we develop our self-concept in terms of how other people react to us.
A) Looking-glass
B) Modeling
C) Reflection
D) Illusion
Q4) Most bulimics tend to wear several layers of clothing to warm their cold bodies and to conceal their ultra thinness.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the five stages in the Tuckman model of group development.
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Chapter 9: Gender,Gender Identity,Gender Expression,and Sexism
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Q1) The first step in counseling a rape survivor involves:
A) Rebuilding the victim's trust in herself
B) Providing immediate warmth and support
C) Coping with her hatred for the rapist
D) Rebuilding the victim's trust in herself and in others
Q2) Women make up approximately 30 percent of the U.S.House of Representatives members.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A critical aspect of advocacy for battered women involves changing legal macro systems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) _____ is the term used to describe a person born with fully formed ovaries and fully formed testes.
A) Hermaphrodite
B) Pseudohermaphrodite
C) Intersex
D) Androgynist
Q5) What is gender role socialization?
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Chapter 10: Biological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Cicely has AIDS. She's two months old and got it from her mother who also has it. Cicely is very weak and probably won't live long. In what ways could you,as a social worker,be helpful?
Q2) Risk factors in getting breast cancer involve which of the following:
A) Being underweight
B) The younger you are, the greater your risk
C) Having children increases your risk
D) Race
Q3) Describe the various surgical procedures involved in the treatment of breast cancer.
Q4) Men are more apt than women to feel old before their time if they have not achieved career or financial success.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ______ percent of all breast lumps are benign.
A) 99
B) 80
C) 50
D) 30
Q6) Summarize the physical changes that occur in middle age.
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Chapter 11: Psychological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) _____ is unhealthy behavior learned amid chaos,when a person is so trapped by a loved one's addiction that they lose their own identity due to the trauma created by the addict.
A) Codependency
B) Resistance
C) Rationalization
D) Minimization
Q2) Describe the major suggestions for treating the chemically dependent person and family.
Q3) Barbiturates are stimulants.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true:
A) Morphine is the most widely abused opiate
B) Heroin tends to increase the user's appetite and sex drive
C) Heroin abuse is our most serious drug problem
D) Addiction to opiates is extremely difficult to break
Q5) List the four competencies that Goleman found to be closely associated with effective work performance.
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Chapter 12: Sociological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) One of the factors for marital happiness is if you feel you are more intelligent than your spouse.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe total quality management.
Q3) Social disorganization occurs when a large organization or an entire society is imperfectly organized to achieve its goals and maintain its stability.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Set up an ecomap of Brad and Angie Kilcoyne's family. They have been married for 16 years. They have 3 kids-2 girls: Summer,age 15,Spring,age 13,and 1 boy: Winter,age 9. They also had another boy (Ice)who died of an accident at age 5.
Q5) Micro system theories of society and its problems seek to make sense of the behavior of large groups of people and the workers of entire societies.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the scientific management model of organizations.
Q7) Explain the congruence in values theory.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Orientation
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Q1) Gay men typically look extremely feminine,while lesbians,on the other hand,appear to be very masculine.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ refers to a person's internal psychological self-concept of being either male or female.
A) Sexual orientation
B) Gender identity
C) Transgender
D) Looking-glass
Q3) The word homosexual is derived from the Latin word homo which means "man."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Lesbian and gay couples have more difficulty adopting children.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain why it is critically important for social workers to assess the impact of differences in class,ethnicity,health status,rural or urban background,and stage of gay identity formation in order to help LGBT clients most effectively. Cite examples.
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Chapter 14: Biological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) Everyone ages,but we still do not know what causes people to age.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In Japan,old age is a mark of status.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is Alzheimer's disease? Describe the intellectual and physical changes that occur in those afflicted.
Q4) At age 89,_____ gave one of his greatest recitals in New York's Carnegie Hall.
A) Konrad Adenauer
B) Marv Baker Eddy
C) Arthur Rubenstein
D) Albert Schweitzer
Q5) At age 87,_____ founded the Christian Science Monitor.
A) Konrad Adenauer
B) Mary Baker Eddy
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Arthur Rubenstein
Q6) What is later adulthood?
Q7) How are the psychomotor skills changed in later adulthood?
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Chapter 15: Psychological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) Describe both the Kübler-Ross Model and the Westberg Model of the grieving process. For a serious loss in your own life,summarize which of these models better conceptualizes the grief that you experienced.
Q2) This type of grandparent assumes considerable caretaking responsibilities usually because the parents are working or because the mother is single and working:
A) Surrogate parent
B) Distant figure
C) Fun seeker
D) Reservoir of family wisdom
Q3) Which of the following is true about grieving:
A) Nearly all of us are currently grieving about some loss that we have had
B) Grieving over a serious loss should end within a year
C) Crying is an unacceptable expression of grief
D) Children should be sheltered from death
Q4) List and describe the five stages of the Kübler-Ross model of the grieving process.
Q5) Scientists involved with near-death research agree that there is an afterlife.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Sociological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) What is involved in the Supplemental Security Income program?
Q2) Summarize the major complaints that have been made about nursing homes. If a family is considering placing a relative in a nursing home,what actions should the family take to increase the chances of selecting a home that provides quality care?
Q3) The _____ offers people over age 60 the opportunity of doing volunteer service in hospitals,schools,libraries,day-care centers,courts,and nursing homes.
A) The Retired Senior Volunteer Program
B) The Service Corps of Retired Executives
C) The Foster Grandparent Program
D) Gray Panthers
Q4) Most people who are 65 years of age and older are working full time.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The fastest growing age group in the United States is:
A) Under 10
B) 20 to 34
C) 65 to 74
D) 85 and older
Q6) Describe the Old Age,Survivors,Disability,and Health Insurance program.
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