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Course Introduction
Social Work with Diverse Populations explores the complex ways in which culture, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, and ability shape individuals experiences and influence their interactions with social systems. The course examines issues of power, privilege, and oppression, equipping students with culturally responsive frameworks and intervention strategies to effectively engage and advocate for clients from various backgrounds. Through theoretical learning, case studies, and practical exercises, students develop skills needed to practice social work that promotes respect, inclusion, and equity in diverse communities.
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An Introduction to the Profession of Social Work 5th Edition by Elizabeth A. Segal
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Chapter 1: What Is Social Work
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Q1) The ecological systems framework focuses on interactions and transactions between people and their surroundings.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) If a social worker determines that a person is struggling with a problem that is caused by something in that person's environment, they are most likely to take a:
A)Micro approach to solving the problem
B)Psychoanalytic approach to solving the problem
C)Macro approach to solving the problem
D)Confrontational approach to solving the problem
Answer: C
Q3) Social workers must learn to tolerate some ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The History of the Social Welfare System and the
Social Work Profession
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Q1) The incremental development of the social welfare system has resulted in the fragmentation of services.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Medicare refers to the medical insurance program established to help low income families.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is not true about Jane Addams?
A)She directed the Hull House in Chicago
B)She was concerned with how external surroundings were linked to an individual's well-being
C)She was a leader in the development of social work
D)Her primary focus was to help people in her community by teaching them to make better choices in their lives
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Poverty and Economic Disparity
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Q1) Which of the following is/are true about the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF)?
A)It replaced the Supplemental Security Income program
B)It limits the amount of time a family can receive benefits to a life-time total of five years
C)It encourages but does not require adult participants to work
D)You must apply for Food Stamps too or you are not eligible.
Answer: B
Q2) The United States officially uses a(n) ________________ measure of poverty.
Answer: Absolute
Q3) The feminization of poverty describes the concept that most of those working to end poverty are women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) List and describe two cash benefit programs for the poor.
Answer: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF], Supplemental Security Income [SSI]
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Chapter 4: Human Rights and Social and Economic Justice
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Q1) Briefly describe the difference between prejudice, discrimination, and oppression.
Q2) Privilege is attained simply by being a member of a dominant group.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Social workers can easily recognize situations of institutional discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A model of intergroup relations where people retain their unique cultural characteristics, while they mix socially and economically with other groups is known as which of the following?
A)Separatism
B)The Melting Pot
C)Cultural Determinism
D)Cultural Pluralism
Q5) Considering power imbalances is critical when looking for injustices.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Achieving fairness in human relationships refers to what concept discussed in this chapter?
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Chapter 5: Dimensions of Diversity
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Q1) Social group memberships help form our values, worldviews and attitudes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What does it mean to say that commonly held beliefs about social groups are "socially constructed"?
Q3) What is meant by the term "social identity"?
Q4) One social work mandate requires social workers to practice in a way that respects diversity and is free of discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q5) It is expected that the population of Americans of Hispanic descent will grow slightly over the next fifty years.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Self-awareness is an absolute requirement for any social worker who seeks to build cultural competence in his or her practice.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Generalist Social Work Practice
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Q1) Cultural humility means being aware that we see the world through our own particular lens and engaging in ongoing self-reflection and self critique.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the difference between micro and macro practice.
Q3) A case manager is someone who provides therapeutic services such as counseling for addiction.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is not a component of crisis intervention?
A)Brief treatment periods with a focus on practical information and tangible support
B)A goal of reducing symptoms
C)A focus on early life experiences and childhood memories
D)Efforts to mobilize the client's social support networks
Q5) The strengths perspective focuses on client strengths rather than client problems. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Child Welfare: Working With Children and Their Families
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Q1) Child development theory tells us that it is always problematic for children to be sleeping with their parents.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain why the value of self-determination is particularly difficult when working with children.
Q3) When a case manager listens to a child's wish not to continue visitation with a parent who maltreated her, the case manager is
A)Taking the child's side
B)Respecting her self-determination
C)Empowering the parent to assert his own opinions regarding his situation
D)Taking the parent's side
Q4) Balancing the value of self-determination is especially complicated when working with children.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Ecological approach suggests that social workers view a client within the context of his/her environment. Name five systems that commonly impact the children with whom social workers work.
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Chapter 8: Gerontology: Working With People Who Are Older
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Q1) Which of the following is not a common legal challenges faced by people as they age?
A)Age discrimination
B)Guardianship and Conservatorship
C)Living wills
D)Health Care Power of Attorney
E)Low percentage of older people voting
Q2) Medicare covers basic health care needs and long term care for older people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss what is meant by "ageism" and how it impacts older people.
Q4) List the three ways that people who are older are often categorized.
Q5) Which of the following statements most accurately represents the situation of the majority of Americans over age 65?
A)They have major health concerns that limit their daily activity
B)They are economically independent, active, healthy, and live in their own homes
C)They live with their children or other relatives
D)They struggle financially, living below the poverty line
E)They live in long term care facilities
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Chapter 9: Health Care Services
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Q1) List several reasons for rapidly rising health care costs in the U.S.
Q2) Which of the following groups are not among those most likely to be uninsured?
A)The poor
B)The elderly
C)People with less education
D)Latinos
Q3) Which of the following is true for managed care health insurance plans?
A)They are designed to screen out unnecessary and inappropriate care
B)They are required to provide free services to the poor
C)They are designed not to reduce costs
D)They are all preferred provider organizations
Q4) Which of the following is true for managed care health insurance plans?
A)They are designed to screen out unnecessary and inappropriate care
B)They are required to provide free services to the poor
C)They allow people to go to any doctor they choose
D)They are all preferred provider organizations
Q5) Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) are an example of a managed care structure.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Mental Health Services
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Q1) The most common reason for hospital admissions nationwide is a biological psychiatric condition, such as bi-polar disorder or schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________________________ refers to the shift in the location of psychiatric care from inpatient facilities, such as public mental hospitals, to the community.
Q3) List three reasons why members of non-dominant groups are less likely to seek help from human service professionals.
Q4) Social workers constitute the largest group of mental health professionals in the United States
A)True
B)False
Q5) Jails and prisons in the US currently house a larger number of people with mental illness than do state mental hospitals.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Briefly explain why defining "mental health" and "mental illness" is not a simple matter.
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Chapter 11: School Social Work
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Q1) List at least two groups who have particularly high dropout rates. Provide two reasons that researchers identify that help explain these high dropout rates?
Q2) Which of the following is true of the D.A.R.E. program?
A)It is a program aimed at reducing teen pregnancy
B)It is widely used but has not been proven effective
C)It is a drug prevention program for high school students
D)It is a social work sponsored program focused on gang prevention
Q3) The term educational equity refers to which of the following?
A)Equal treatment for students with disabilities
B)Less funding disparity between poor and rich school districts
C)Equal treatment of non-English speaking students
D)Providing vouchers for private school
Q4) The act of removing a child with a disability from special education classes and placing him or her in one or more regular education classes is known as which of the following?
A)Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
B)Open Schools
C)Mainstreaming
D)No Child Left Behind
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Chapter 12: Substance Abuse
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Q1) List at least two possible reasons for the high prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse among non-dominant groups or populations.
Q2) An approach which addresses the supply side of the drug problem includes which of the following?
A)Culturally-sensitive drug treatment programs
B)Prevention programs aimed at reducing isolation
C)Law enforcement programs
D)School-based drug prevention programs
Q3) Drug and alcohol treatment is cost effective. For every one dollar invested in treatment, the government saves seven dollars in drug-related health costs, crime, and criminal justice costs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The strengths perspective requires the case management process to be driven by which of the following?
A)The need for the client to break through denial
B)The social worker's clinical orientation
C)Client-identified goals.
D)The client's ability to pay for treatment services
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Chapter 13: Violence, Victims, and Criminal Justice
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Q1) Briefly explain how the person in environment theory embraced by social workers might influence the acceptance or rejection of various theories explaining criminal behavior.
Q2) Which of the following is/are important for social workers to know about juvenile female offenders?
A)Research shows that the first step along females' pathway to offending is violent victimization
B)Girls receive lighter sentences than boys for committing the same offense
C)Girls are more afraid when in correctional facilities, so they need additional services
Q3) Crime statistics collected from police departments and compiled in the FBI uniform crime report (UCR) leaves out _____________________ crimes.
Q4) Describe the difference between probation and parole.
Q5) Which of the following is not a social work position on crime and criminals?
A)All victims should receive assistance
B)Refer more children who commit crimes to the adult criminal justice system
C)Convicted criminals can be rehabilitated
D)More funds should be spent on juvenile prevention and treatment programs
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Chapter 14: Crisis, Trauma, and Disasters
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Q1) Define crisis and provide an example.
Q2) After witnessing or experiencing an event that involves actual or the threat of injury, death or serious danger, a person has experienced:
A)Post Traumatic Stress
B)Trauma
C)Crisis
D)Positive Stress
Q3) The central premise of CBT is that thoughts, rather than the external environment, cause emotions and behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All trauma victims suffer from PTSD.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Cognitive behavioral therapy rests on the assumption that feelings come from deep-seated, repressed childhood traumas.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define trauma and provide an example.
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