Introduction to Social Work
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Introduction to Social Work provides students with a foundational understanding of the social work profession, its history, values, ethics, and diverse practice settings. Through an exploration of theoretical frameworks and real-world case studies, the course examines the roles and responsibilities of social workers in addressing complex social issues such as poverty, discrimination, mental health, and family dynamics. Students will gain insight into the skills and knowledge required to advocate for individuals, families, and communities, while also learning about the profession's commitment to social justice, human rights, and cultural competence.
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Social Work An Empowering Profession 8th Edition by Brenda L. DuBois
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Chapter 1: Social Work: a Helping Profession
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Q1) Lien upholds the view that social welfare programs and services should be available to all persons as a citizen right.Her view of social welfare is classified as an) ______.
A)institutional
B)substitutive
C)supportive
D)residual
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following represents the social work view of personal troubles and public issues?
A)Private troubles translate into public issues.
B)Troubles occur within the character of the individual
C)The solutions for personal troubles and public issues reside in separate realms.
D)Public issues are in the public domain and have no bearing on personal troubles. Answer: A
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Chapter 2: An Evolving Profession
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Q1) If you were a "friendly visitor" in a charity organization society, you would most likely
A)access public funds for families in distress
B)believe that charity represented respectful support for families
C)act as a model of moral character
D)not be concerned about investigations and scientific procedures
Answer: C
Q2) ______ is an early pioneer in the Settlement House Movement.
A)Mary Richmond
B)Harriet Bartlett
C)Florence Hollis
D)Jane Addams
Answer: D
Q3) You are writing a report on Bertha Capen Reynolds.Which of the following activities will you include in your report?
A)her work as Secretary of Labor
B)her emphasis on consumer involvement in directing social services
C)her advocacy for small group interaction as a vehicle for social change.
D)her activities in the Charity Organization Society
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Social Work and Social Systems
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Q1) Sarina is a family counselor.Her typical day-to-day activities most likely reflect
A)microlevel intervention
B)mezzolevel intervention
C)macrolevel intervention
D)working with the profession
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following persons is most likely considered "at risk" in social functioning?
A)Someone who is serving time in prison
B)A family caught up in serious communication conflicts
C)An older woman who is adjusting successfully to the death of her partner
D)A person with a disability who is underemployed
Answer: D
Q3) Social planning to create social change represents ______.
A)microlevel intervention
B)mezzolevel intervention
C)macrolevel intervention
D)working with the social work profession
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Social Service Delivery System
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Q1) Funding resources are extremely limited in the community's agency for the homeless.The board of directors had decided that services should be offered only to those who seem highly motivated and "reachable." This policy illustrates ______.
A)community-based planning
B)agency turfism
C)purchase of service contracting
D)social triage
Q2) The Child Welfare League of America, the Alliance for Children and Families, and the American Public Human Service Organization are examples of ______.
A)agencies
B)host settings
C)associations
D)public auspices
Q3) Compare and contrast the following characteristics of social services: private and public auspices, primary and host settings, sectarian and nonsectarian affiliations, and nonprofit and for-profit status
Q4) Describe ways in which agencies can demonstrate respect for diversity.
Q5) Evaluate the impact of privatization on social service delivery
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Chapter 5: Values and Ethics in Social Work
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Q1) Ethics is what we consider ______.
A)ideal
B)preferable
C)right
D)good
Q2) Carrie is beginning her career as a professional social worker.With respect to values, you'd recommend that she ______.
A)strive to be a value neutral professional
B)identify her own values as ideal
C)enhance her self-awareness by continuously reflecting on her values
D)impose her own values on her clients
Q3) Bill Hanley and Russ O'Donohue both are professional social workers who are guided by the NASW Code of Ethics.Since professional actions are grounded in the Code of Ethics, we can expect that given a particular situation ______.
A)their professional decisions will always be very similar
B)their professional decisions may actually be quite different
C)the code is irrelevant to their professional practice
D)the code always dictates a particular response
Q4) Differentiate between values and ethics.
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Chapter 6: Human Rights and Social Justice
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Q1) Prepare a position statement that supports the notion that a "just social order accords every societal member the same basic social rights, opportunities, and benefits."
Q2) Laws dealing with equal opportunity most likely deal with ______.
A)civil rights
B)human rights
C)second generation rights
D)civil liberties
Q3) According to Solomon, policies that create health care disparities, are ______ barriers to empowerment for minorities.
A)human rights
B)direct
C)unjust
D)indirect
Q4) Provide examples of the racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, heterosexism, elitism to illustrate similarities and differences among the isms.
Q5) Evaluate the remnants of social Darwinism, blaming the victim, and just world beliefs that persist in contemporary welfare policies and in current attitudes of the general public about social welfare clients.
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Chapter 7: Diversity and Social Work
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Q1) Formulate a rationale as to the importance for social workers to understand the effects of differential status.
Q2) Describe cultural competence and analyze its significance for social work practice.
Q3) Explain how empowerment social work embodies the profession's value orientation held about diverse populations.
Q4) Mario is worried that if he publically reveals that he is gay, people will become irrationally afraid of him and not allow him to continue as a city council leader.His concern about their fears is really a concern about ______.
A)oppression
B)sexism
C)homophobia
D)a minor issue
Q5) Spirituality is ______.
A)always a reflection of denominational beliefs
B)the same as being affiliated with a religious community
C)the human experience of developing meaning and purpose
D)contingent on attending religious services
Q6) Analyze the implications of diversity for social work practice in today's world.
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Chapter 8: Empowerment Social Work Practice
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Q1) Describe the roles of the social worker in working collaboratively with clients in the social work helping relationship.
Q2) Critique why maximizing clients' rights throughout all facets of empowerment processes- engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation- requires social workers to ensure clients' full participation in accessing services and decision-making.
Q3) Illustrate how the integrated view of persons and their social environments guides the assessment of situations in generalist social work practice.
Q4) Examine client rights and responsibilities to determine how these rights and responsibilities apply to each of the phases of the social work intervention process.
Q5) The type of evaluation that evaluates with clients where they stand on achieving the goals and objectives developed in the action plan is called ______.
A)outcome assessment
B)progress evaluation
C)program evaluation
D)action research
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Chapter 9: Social Work Functions and Roles
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Q1) Illustrate ways in which social justice and human rights are integrated into the core purposes of social work as explicated by the General Assemblies of the IASSW and the IFSW.
Q2) Prevention activities are primarily ______ in nature.
A)educational
B)medical
C)psychological
D)social
Q3) Describe ways social workers in their roles as activists and advocates could address human rights issues.
Q4) Jose Melendez mobilizes the action of community members to address the shortages of food supplies in area food pantries.Jose's work reflects the ______ role.
A)broker/advocate
B)convener/mediator
C)activist
D)planner
Q5) Describe ways social workers can extend advocacy initiatives into the international arena.
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Chapter 10: Social Work and Social Policy
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Q1) Illustrate how social workers include the activities of policy analysis and policy advocacy in their practice repertoire.
Q2) Assess the shifts in social welfare policy beginning with the New Deal programs.
Q3) Generate examples that compare and contrast public assistance and social insurance.
Q4) The Brown family income is less than current poverty guidelines for a family their size.Although both parents work, neither parent has employment-based health benefits.For which medical assistance program are they most likely qualified?
A)Medicare
B)Medicaid
C)Medigap
D)Medicheck
Q5) The program established by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is called ______.
A)ADFC
B)SSI
C)OASDHI
D)TANF
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Chapter 11: Social Work and Poverty, Homelessness,
Unemployment, and Criminal Justice
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Q1) ______ provides benefit coverage for individuals who suffer work related disease or injury.
A)Workers compensation
B)Unemployment compensation
C)Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled
D)Temporary Assistance for Needy families
Q2) The McKinney-Vento Act deals with ______.
A)victim restitution
B)unemployment compensation
C)homelessness
D)public welfare assistance
Q3) A family's standard of living in comparison to that of other community members is a measure of ______.
A)absolute poverty
B)relative poverty
C)feminization of poverty
D)persistence of poverty
Q4) Discuss social justice and human rights issues related to juvenile justice and hate crimes.
Q5) Refute three commonly held misconceptions about people who are poor.
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Chapter 12: Social Work in Health, Rehabilitation, and Mental Health
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Q1) ______ is credited with establishing social work in medical settings and developing a hospital-based social work department at Massachusetts General Hospital.
A)Mary Jarrett
B)Ida Cannon
C)Mary Richmond
D)Dorthea Dix
Q2) Evaluate ethical dilemmas that arise for social work practitioners who work with clients who have been court-ordered to participate in drug or alcohol treatment programs.
Q3) As a school social worker, Carl Smith works collaboratively with parents and other members of the interdisciplinary school team to ensure that students with developmental disabilities, in so far as possible, enroll in regular classrooms.This type of enrollment is called ______.
A)standardization
B)normalization
C)mainstreaming
D)deinstitutionalization
Q4) Defend the statement, "Social work with persons with disabilities is a human rights initiative."
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Chapter 13: Social Work With Families and Youths
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Q1) Providing services to ensure children's safety and to prevent out-of-home placement is most likely an example of ______.
A)primary prevention services
B)family reunification services
C)family support services
D)family preservation services
Q2) Prepare an argument for a seamless continuum of family-centered child welfare services.
Q3) Analyze how upholding the primacy of the family, protecting children, and providing family services are examples of social justice and human rights.
Q4) In their policy practice role, recommend advocacy actions social workers could take to promote a coordinated and comprehensive family policy.
Q5) Note factors social workers should consider in resolving the ethical dilemma of protecting the child versus preserving the family.
Q6) Compare and contrast primary prevention activities and other chld welfare programs and services.
Q7) Describe family violence from an ecological perspective.
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Chapter 14: Adult and Aging Services
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Q1) Although her mother begs to go to the doctor, Sarina tells her that she is complaining again for no reason and refuses to make an appointment.This type of purposeful withholding of medical attention from an elderly person could be considered the type of elder abuse called ______.
A)physical abuse
B)neglect
C)verbal abuse
D)self-neglect
Q2) Of the following fields of practice, in which are gerontological social workers most likely to practice?
A)Victim assistance programs
B)Aging services
C)Genetic counseling services
D)Family services
Q3) Outline indicators social workers would evaluate in their assessment of elder abuse.
Q4) Assess the issues of intimate partner violence experienced by same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
Q5) Discuss the implications of empowerment for working with older adults.
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