Social Work with Adolescents
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Social Work with Adolescents explores the unique developmental, psychological, and social challenges faced by adolescents in diverse environments. The course focuses on strength-based approaches and evidence-informed practice strategies to engage, assess, and intervene with adolescents and their families. Key topics include adolescent identity development, risk behaviors, mental health, trauma, substance use, family dynamics, school and community issues, and the influence of cultural, socioeconomic, and systemic factors. It equips students with practical skills for advocacy, program development, and collaboration with community resources, while emphasizing ethical and culturally competent social work practice with young people.
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Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood 5th Edition by Jeffrey J. Arnett
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) best choice of method would be
A) experience sampling method.
B) interviews.
C) questionnaires.
D) observations.
Answer: B
Q2) requirements for children to attend secondary school were crucial in establishing the characteristics of
A) child labor laws.
B) life-cycle service.
C) modern adolescence.
D) emerging adulthood.
Answer: C
Q3) Which statement most accurately represents the concept of globalization?
A) Cultural beliefs are becoming more distinct.
B) The world is becoming smaller and more diverse.
C) The world is becoming smaller and people more similar.
D) Economic disparity is becoming less pronounced.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations
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Q1) physical and biological changes of puberty result from changes that occur in the A) endocrine system.
B) lymphatic system.
C) nervous system.
D) thyroid gland.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is NOT associated with primary sex characteristics? Development of the A) breasts.
B) penis.
C) eggs and sperm.
D) ovaries.
Answer: A
Q3) Which genotype-environment interaction is MOST pronounced during early childhood?
A) Active
B) Passive
C) Evocative
D) Stable
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Cognitive Foundations
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Q1) shows an example of
A) perspective taking.
B) pragmatic realism.
C) personal fable.
D) imaginary audience.
Answer: D
Q2) Concerning the automaticity of problem solving, the biggest difference between 9-year-old Charlie and his 50-year-old father, Martin, is that
A) Charlie's problem solving is more automatic.
B) Martin's problem solving is more automatic.
C) both are the same.
D) one could not draw conclusions based on their ages.
Answer: B
Q3) Schemes are
A) problems in thought processes.
B) mental abilities that involve speed of analyzing.
C) mental structures for organizing and interpreting information.
D) the way we think about social institutions.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Cultural Beliefs
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Q1) After following his participants for 20 years, Kohlberg found
A) the majority remained in transition.
B) most skipped a stage along the way.
C) all had proceeded to Stage 5.
D) none had reached Stage 6.
Q2) is most likely that you would be
A) taking a paper and pencil test in a quiet classroom setting.
B) playing a game of marbles and discussing the rules.
C) asked to respond to fictional dilemmas.
D) interviewed and asked about your personal relationships.
Q3) are Ramadan and the Koran related?
A) Ramadan and the Koran are holy rituals practiced by Muslims.
B) Ramadan commemorates the revelation of the Koran.
C) The Koran commemorates the revelation of Ramadan.
D) Ramadan and the Koran are not related.
Q4) cultures share similar socialization outcomes and similar socialization beliefs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) terms of Adelson's (1971, 1991) studies of political development in adolescence, list and explain the three key changes based on age.
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Chapter 5: Gender
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Q1) historical belief that intellectual work endangered women's health is an example of a gender difference thought to be a sex difference.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is associated with gender schema theory?
A) An assumption that people organize information in terms of gender.
B) An assumption that differences between males and females are purely biological.
C) The belief that gender is a social construction.
D) The belief that psychological theories of gender are inadequate.
Q3) colonial America in the 17th and 18th centuries, preparations for manhood most closely resembled those in
A) present day America.
B) traditional cultures.
C) 19th century America.
D) the era of self-made manhood.
Q4) Contrast gender roles of male and female adolescents in traditional cultures.
Q5) Discuss possible effects of globalization upon gender role perceptions in traditional cultures.
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Chapter 6: The Self
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Q1) According to research, African American adolescent girls are more likely to have a positive body image than White American adolescent girls.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Celeste is likely to have a
A) greater than average chance of psychological difficulties.
B) lower than average chance of experiencing adjustment problems. C) greater than average chance of school success.
D) lower than average chance of relationship difficulties.
Q3) all the identity statuses in adolescence, diffusion is the most likely to be predictive of psychological problems later in life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During which of the following life periods do people tend to spend the most time alone?
A) Childhood
B) Adolescence
C) Emerging adulthood
D) Middle adulthood
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Chapter 7: Family Relationships
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Q1) Where would you most likely live?
A) Uptown apartment
B) Coastal cottage
C) Family farm
D) Southern retreat
Q2) contrast to merely studying rates of divorce, researchers interested in the psychological effects of divorce need to focus on
A) the declining birth rate in industrialized nations.
B) the cultural beliefs of the larger society.
C) the lack of extended family relationships.
D) exposure to conflict between parents.
Q3) According to research, May most likely lives in
A) the United States.
B) Canada.
C) Japan.
D) the Netherlands.
Q4) Discuss each of the four parenting styles using examples not discussed in the textbook.
Q5) Discuss the effects of single parenthood on adolescents.
Q6) examples from India, Brazil and/or Kenya.
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Chapter 8: Friends and Peers
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Q1) Which of the following represents a way that parents influence their adolescent children's peer relationships?
A) Location of the family home
B) Choice of school
C) Religious practices
D) All of these answers are correct
Q2) Friendships are particularly important during adolescence because it is a time of life when young people
A) extend their relationships outside the immediate family.
B) are more likely to experience social isolation.
C) are more at risk for being unpopular with peers.
D) spend more and more time with their parents.
Q3) List and define four types of support that friends may provide to each other in adolescence. Provide an example for each.
Q4) According to your text, it is most likely that they
A) see a lot of each other outside of school.
B) do not see a lot of each other outside of school.
C) are typical male adolescents.
D) are atypical male adolescents.
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Chapter 9: Love and Sexuality
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Q1) implication that follows from restrictive cultures placing strong prohibitions on adolescent sexual activity before marriage is that
A) males are physically punished for premarital sex.
B) boys and girls are encouraged to have group social events together.
C) they allow adolescents to be sexually permissive if they are discreet.
D) females are punished for engaging in premarital sex.
Q2) Compare and contrast the sexual attitudes of the Netherlands and the United States.
Q3) According to research, Sheri will tend to A) play more sports.
B) have higher academic aspirations.
C) be sexually active earlier.
D) attend religious services more regularly.
Q4) According to research, Lola is more likely than other babies to A) say her first word by age 10 months.
B) have a high birth weight.
C) have behavior problems in childhood.
D) be a full-term baby.
Q5) Provide examples to illustrate your points.
Q6) Define sexual harassment in terms of mild to severe, providing examples.
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Chapter 10: School
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Q1) terms of the research on tracking, students in lower tracks tend to receive lower academic material and lower academic requirements.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss how these characteristics might present problems in terms of schooling.
Q3) According to research, what is Angela likely to experience that is different from elementary school?
A) Multiple teachers
B) Higher level of academic work
C) Less personalized classrooms
D) All of these answers are correct
Q4) Myrra is pursuing this option at UCLA in 1970, how many women is Myrra likely to meet in her class of 100?
A) 0
B) 20
C) 34
D) 42
Q5) Discuss the effects of part-time work on school performance.
Q6) Explain and discuss the factors relating to college dropout.
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Chapter 11: Work
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Q1) percentage of American emerging adults attends college after graduating from high school? Approximately
A) 20%
B) 50%
C) 70%
D) 80%
Q2) Generally, adolescents view their part-time jobs as
A) apprenticeships to their school work.
B) the beginning of career development.
C) strongly connected to their postsecondary education.
D) none of these answers are correct.
Q3) According to research, what factor in Julie's life is most likely to predict the fact that Julie engages in community service? The fact that
A) she lives with both her mom and dad.
B) she is 15 years old.
C) her father is a professional.
D) her mother volunteers.
Q4) Compare and contrast the six categories in Holland's (1993) theory of personality.
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Chapter 12: Media
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Q1) best reflects the
A) uses and gratification approach.
B) negative effects of media.
C) impact of technology on adolescents.
D) displacement effect.
Q2) According to research, the majority of violent crimes are committed by young males.
A)True
B)False
Q3) most heavily promoted brands of cigarettes are those most often chosen by adolescent smokers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) most common kind of blog content is simply daily activities, including what I ate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the Media Practice Model of the uses and gratifications theory in terms of adolescents' active uses of media, noting three categories of active uses. Provide an example.
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Chapter 13: Problems and Resilience
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Q1) Based upon research, it could be predicted that Quentin experiences little distress related to his behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) most serious form of depression is
A) major depressive disorder.
B) depressive syndrome.
C) greater dysthymia.
D) large depressed mood.
Q3) cases of eating disorders have their onset during
A) early childhood.
B) middle adulthood.
C) adolescence and emerging adulthood.
D) no pattern has been evidenced.
Q4) Briefly outline gender differences in adolescent suicide rates.
Q5) most likely
A) male.
B) female.
C) from a traditional culture.
D) from a Western culture.
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