Social Work Practice
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Course Introduction
Social Work Practice introduces students to the foundational knowledge, values, and skills essential for effective and ethical professional engagement with individuals, families, groups, and communities. The course explores core theories of human behavior, communication, and problem-solving, while emphasizing evidence-based interventions, cultural competence, and the advocacy roles of social workers. Through case studies, discussions, and practical exercises, students learn to assess client needs, develop appropriate intervention plans, and implement strategies for empowerment and social change. The course also addresses issues of diversity, social justice, confidentiality, and professional boundary-setting, preparing students for further study and practice in the field of social work.
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Empowerment Series Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment 10th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Behavior and the Social Environment
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Q1) Coping refers to the capacity for any living thing to adjust to surrounding environmental conditions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A weakness of the social systems perspective on communities is that there is no consideration of interconnections.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In the social action model,the text listed which of the following social work roles:
A) Facilitator
B) Analyst
C) Expert planner
D) Partisan
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Biological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) At _____ years old,the pictures children draw,although simple,are finally recognizable. Dominance of the left or right hand becomes well established.
A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7
Answer: B
Q2) Which one of the following countries prohibits abortions?
A) Portugal
B) Nicaragua
C) France
D) Poland
Answer: D
Q3) The following is true about vacuum aspiration:
A) This is considered a second trimester abortion
B) The procedure is used up to 16 weeks after a missed period
C) The entire procedure takes approximately one hour
D) Most are performed in a hospital under general anesthesia
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Psychological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) Self-esteem refers to a person's judgment of his or her own value.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) Approximately ______ percent of all school-age children are classified as having a learning disability.
A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 12
Answer: B
Q3) During the preoperational-thought period,obstacles to logical thinking include egocentrism,seriation,irreversibility,and centration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) A culture-free IQ test has recently been devised.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Social Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) Inadequate supervision is considered psychological abuse.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Provide examples of primary and secondary reinforcers.
Q3) Grounding has been established as an effective form of time-out.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the six traditional family life cycle stages. How does the contemporary framework differ?
Q5) Courts are involved in all cases of maltreatment.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The most socialization occurs during childhood.
A)True
B)False
Q7) In extinction,a consequence that was previously provided no longer follows the response.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Describe the characteristics of the victims and perpetrators of child abuse.
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Chapter 5: Ethnocentrism and Racism
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Q1) If a social worker believes his or her religion is the one true religion,can that social worker fully accept clients who are members of some other religious faith? Explain your reasons.
Q2) Define the Jim Crow laws.
Q3) Explain how the history of oppression of African Americans has produced a victim system.
Q4) Explain the intersectionality theory.
Q5) What is meant by the term institutional racism? Give examples. What are your suggestions for reducing or eliminating institutional racism?
Q6) A key instrument used in an asset-based model of community development is a needs survey.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The melting pot appears to be the form that race and ethnic relations are presently taking in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Compare and contrast the concepts of human rights and social justice.
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Q9) Summarize the arguments for and against continuing affirmative action programs.
Chapter 6: Biological Development in Adolescence
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Q1) From 2006 to 2010,_____ percent of female teens used no contraception during sexual intercourse.
A) 4
B) 14
C) 24
D) 34
Q2) Adolescence usually extends from about age 8 to the late twenties.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The tendency for people to generally grow taller and bigger than they did a century ago is called the:
A) Secondary sex characteristics anomaly
B) Secular trend
C) Adrenal custom
D) Musculature precedence
Q4) What are the positive and negative effects of early- and late-maturing girls?
Q5) By adulthood,the differences between early and late maturers become more pronounced.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Psychological Development in Adolescence
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Q1) You are a bridesmaid in another friend's wedding-the third one in a year. A mutual acquaintance says to you: "It's too bad you're a bridesmaid in another wedding,looks like you'll never be a bride." You respond: "I think that was very mean. It sounded like you were just trying to hurt my feelings." This is a(n)_____ response.
A) Aggressive
B) Nonassertive
C) Assertive
Q2) Does a person have the right to take his or her own life? What if the person is terminally ill or in chronic,severe pain?
Q3) In _____ of Kohlberg's moral development,laws are considered necessary; however,they are subject to rational thought and interpretation. Community welfare is important.
A) Stage 3: Good Boy/Girl Morality
B) Stage 4: Authority-Maintaining Morality
C) Stage 5: Morality of Contract, of Individual Rights, and of Democratically Accepted Law
D) Stage 6: Morality of Individual Principles and Conscience
Q4) Define spirituality and explain its importance to social workers.
Q5) List eight specific suggestions for how to treat a potentially suicidal person.
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Chapter 8: Social Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Compulsive overeating involves the irresistible urge to consume excessive amounts of food for no nutritional reason.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most bulimics are male and most anorexics are female.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the six steps in the no-lose method described in the text?
Q4) Describe the servant leadership approach.
Q5) Many anorexics and bulimics who enter treatment for eating disorders and still want to be very thin will probably return to their old behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Paraphilic disorders include enuresis and encopresis.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Morales,et al.classify youth gangs in the following four types: criminal,conflict,retreatist,and cult/occult. Briefly describe each of these types.
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Chapter 9: Gender,Gender Identity,Gender Expression,and Sexism
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Q1) Cite and discuss counseling strategies for working with battered women.
Q2) Gender identity concerns how we express ourselves to others in ways related to gender that include both behavior and personality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sexual harassment standards include which of the following:
A) A manager cannot be held accountable for a harasser's action if the company does not have a strong system of handling harassment issues
B) A victim of harassment only needs to tell some other person about the harassment
C) An employee can successfully claim sexual harassment even if she has been treated well on the job
D) Referring to a female as Miss is considered sexual harassment
Q4) Rarely do battered women who seek help from shelters and initiate separation from their spouses through the courts return to their abusive home situations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List some of the suggestions provided in the text on rape prevention.
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Chapter 10: Biological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Eyesight and hearing tend to be sharpest at age 30.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The HIV virus reverses the usual order of reproduction within the cells they infect.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) Describe the findings regarding sex in widowhood and sex among the never married.
Q5) At what age does a man's sex drive reach its peak? Is it the same for women? If not,what age is it for women?
Q6) Breast self-examinations should be administered:
A) Once a month
B) Once every six months
C) Once a year
D) Once every two years
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Chapter 11: Psychological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Describe the Dutch approach to combating drug abuse. Do you think it would work in the United States? Why or why not?
Q2) According to Glasser's choice theory,the pictures in our heads about how to get what we want are all rational.
A)True
B)False
Q3) LSD is classified as a:
A) Narcotic drug
B) Depressant
C) Stimulant
D) Hallucinogen
Q4) Do you sometimes discriminate against people who are less attractive? Explain.
Q5) Describe the major suggestions for treating the chemically dependent person and family.
Q6) At the heart of Levinson's theory is the concept of life structure.
A)True
B)False
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Q7) When we ask a question,we usually lower our voice at the end of the sentence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Sociological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) According to the functionalist perspective,some of the functions and dysfunctions of a social system are _____,that is,obvious to everyone.
A) Latent
B) Quantitative
C) Manifest
D) Qualitative
Q2) Describe total quality management.
Q3) The following is true about theoretical explanations of poverty:
A) Conflict theorists view poverty as functional for our society
B) Functionalists believe poverty could best be dealt with if the poor became politically aware and active, organizing themselves to reduce inequality through government action
C) Conflict theorists assume that since there is such enormous wealth in modern societies, no one in these societies should go without satisfaction of their essential needs
D) To resolve the poverty problem, functionalists urge elimination of the stigma and negative definitions associated with poverty
Q4) What are the principles of management by objectives?
Q5) Explain the congruence in values theory.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Orientation
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Q1) The physiological responses of gay and lesbian people are exactly the same as those of heterosexuals.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In a 2013 decision,the Supreme Court forced states to accept gay marriages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bell and colleagues used a statistical method called _____,which allowed the researchers to explore possible causal relationships between variables and the development of sexual orientation.
A) Path analysis
B) Comparative junctures
C) Causality analysis
D) Relationship methodology
Q4) Describe the three major findings of Bell and his colleagues' investigation through the Alfred C. Kinsey Institute for Sex Research concerning the causes of homosexuality.
Q5) What does the term transgender mean? Should transgender people have the right to physically alter themselves to better resemble their true gender identity?
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Chapter 14: Biological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) List the top four causes of death among older people.
Q2) The following is true about physiological changes experienced by older people:
A) The lungs increase in size, resulting in an increase of oxygen utilization
B) The heart increases in size, and the percentage of fat in the heart decreases
C) The elasticity in the valves of the heart is increased
D) The rhythm of the heart becomes slower and more irregular
Q3) Gerontologists have labeled people aged 75 and above as:
A) Old-old
B) Mid-old
C) Ancient
D) Really old
Q4) Insecurity tends to accelerate the aging process.
A)True
B)False
Q5) _____ occurs when fluid pressure in the eye builds up.
A) Glaucoma
B) Cataract
C) Macular degeneration
Q6) Define the three relaxation techniques discussed in the text.
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) 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
Q2) Briefly describe the beliefs,traditions,and some of the holy days of Judaism,Islam,and Buddhism.
Q3) Which of the following is true about older people:
A) Most children's books have elderly characters and portray older people favorably
B) Older people in our society generally hold positions of economic power
C) Children usually learn their future profession or trade from their parents
D) Treating older people as incompetent, dependent, and senile may be a self-fulfilling prophecy as some of the older people end up playing the roles suggested by the stereotypes
Q4) Do you believe there is life after death? Why or why not?
Q5) If a member of your family suffered a serious car accident,and has suffered irreversible brain damage,would you have a feeding tube inserted or not? Explain your reasons.
Q6) Explain the activity theory on aging.
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Chapter 16: Sociological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) 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
Q2) Long-term housing facilities which are designed to provide a full range of accommodations and services for affluent older people as their needs change are called:
A) Congregate housing facilities
B) Assisted-living facilities
C) Continued care retirement communities
D) Foster-care homes
Q3) What is the purpose of nursing home ombudsman programs?
Q4) This group lobbies for the interests of old people at the local,state,and federal levels of government.
A) RSVP
B) SCORE
C) AARP
D) Gray Cougars
Q5) Describe the Old Age,Survivors,Disability,and Health Insurance program.
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