Social Work with Families
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Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental concepts, principles, and methods of social work practice with families. Emphasizing a strengths-based and culturally sensitive approach, it examines the dynamics of family systems, common challenges faced by families, and effective intervention strategies. Topics include family assessment, communication patterns, life cycle transitions, parenting issues, and the impact of social policies. Through case studies, discussions, and practical exercises, students develop skills for engaging, supporting, and empowering diverse families within various social contexts.
Recommended Textbook Marriages Families and Intimate Relationships 3rd Edition by Brian K. Williams
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Chapter 1: Seeking: Finding Happiness in Relationships in a Complex World
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Q1) According to the text, which of the following statements is true?
A)Increased materialistic consumption is correlated with increased happiness.
B)Health levels do not appear to affect happiness.
C)Happiness is linked to the ability to manage the natural desire to have more.
D)All of the above are true.
Answer: C
Q2) When countries' economies become more interdependent,
A)globalization occurs.
B)families can benefits through more goods and services.
C)families can suffer due to job loss to foreign markets.
D)All of the above are true.
Answer: D
Q3) Middle-class men took clerical and white-collar government jobs during the Great Depression in order to bolster their families' financial well-being.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Understanding: Learning About Intimate Behavior
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Q1) Identify and describe the three primary functions of the family.
Answer: The student should indicate that the family provides certain functions to create stability in society as well as functions to maintain itself. The three primary founders are 1)provide an ongoing supply of new members, 2)economic support, and 3)emotional support. Within the family there are functional roles that men (instrumental)and women (expressive)fulfill.
Q2) Mindful learning takes into account
A)different approaches to problems.
B)openness to new information.
C)active listening and problem solving.
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Media influences affect how we function within our families.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The use of questionnaires or interviews to collect data from a sample of the population is called ________ __________.
Answer: survey research
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Chapter 3: Gender: the Meanings of Masculinity Femininity
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Q1) ________ feminism is concerned with achieving equal rights and opportunities for women.
A)Lesbian
B)Liberal
C)Radical
D)Socialist
Answer: B
Q2) Children developing a framework of knowledge about what males and females are supposed to do is known as ________ _________ __________.
Answer: gender schema theory
Q3) Which of the following is way in which parents socialize their children into gendered roles?
A)using different forms of punishment for sons and daughters
B)providing gender appropriate toys
C)describing the same behaviors of boys and girls in different ways
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q4) Learning by imitating other's behavior is called ________.
Answer: modeling
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Chapter 4: Involvement: Dating, Pairing, Courtship
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Q1) ________ is the payment of money or property by the bride's family to the groom's family.
A)Bride price
B)Dowry
C)Blind endowment
D)Elopement
Q2) "Friends with benefits" describes those who are A)hanging out.
B)hooking up.
C)joined at the hip.
D)engaged.
Q3) The tendency to marry up with regard to age, social class, and occupational success is called A)heterogamy.
B)hypergamy.
C)hypogamy.
D)homogamy.
Q4) A college class or church group is an example of a ________ field.
Q5) Discuss the link between the acceptance of interracial dating and popular media. Give examples to support your answer.
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Chapter 5: Love: the Many Faces
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Q1) One in _________ women has been stalked at some point in her life.
A)5
B)12
C)20
D)26
Q2) Lesbian relationships tend to be more enduring and stable than male homosexual relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the history of romantic love.
Q4) The first stage in the wheel theory of love is
A)mutual dependency.
B)self-revelation.
C)intimacy need fulfillment.
D)rapport.
Q5) Rapport is defined as
A)the disclosure of personal feelings.
B)the sharing of emotional intimacy.
C)a feeling of ease upon first meeting someone.
D)the development of a pattern of mutual dependence.
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Chapter 6: Communication: Realizing Effective Intimacy
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Q1) Concerning hostility, detachment, and marital stress as measured by a 2000 study, a primary predictor of unhappiness for wives was their husbands'
A)avoidance of intimacy.
B)avoidance of conflict.
C)angry withdrawal.
D)hostile responsiveness.
Q2) According to Arlie Hochschild, marital conflicts include A)schedules.
B)housework.
C)standards.
D)All of the above
Q3) ________ signals interest and sexual attraction between two people.
A)Gazing
B)Body movement
C)Interpersonal space
D)Head turning
Q4) Eye contact in U.S. culture can signal emotion such as sexual interest or disgust.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Sexuality: Interpersonal Sexuality, Sexual Values, and Behaviors
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Q1) Discuss David Knox's three sexual values that guide college student's sexual behavior.
Q2) The word pornography comes from ancient A)Rome.
B)Incan cultures.
C)Greece.
D)Anglo Saxon tribes.
Q3) Discuss why teenagers are reluctant to talk to their parents about sex.
Q4) The most frequent sexual complaint of married couples is that one or both suffers from
A)sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
B)sexual addiction.
C)one or more forms of atypical sexual expression.
D)inhibited sexual desire (ISD).
Q5) ________ is the exposing of one's genitals to an unwilling victim.
Q6) Discuss Ira Reiss's four standards of premarital sex.
Q7) Oral intercourse can allow sexually transmitted diseases to pass from one partner to the next.
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A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Marriage: The Ultimate Commitment
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Q1) The median cost of a wedding in the U.S. is more than $25,000.00.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Increasingly, more American women are using hyphenated names after marriage. A)True
B)False
Q3) Define marriage as a "rite of passage." What rituals are parts of this passage?
Q4) Discuss the empty nest syndrome. How does the marital relationship improve during the middle-age phase?
Q5) Most people say they marry for love.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A covenant marriage is an antidivorce contract, in which couples demonstrate their commitment by getting _________ counseling and other counseling during times of marital difficulty.
Q7) The higher the income a couple has, the higher their reported level of marital satisfaction.
A)True
B)False
Q8) What stages in childrearing are the most stressful for parents and why?
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Chapter 9: Variations: Nonmarital Families and Households
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Q1) A University of Michigan study found that in 2006, ________ of college students planned to move back to their parents' homes after graduation.
A)20%
B)34%
C)48%
D)60%
Q2) ________ suggests singles can be classified according to whether their single status is by choice or not.
A)Peter Stein
B)Robert Staples
C)Leonard Cargan
D)Matthew Melko
Q3) The ________ single refuses to become involved in romantic or sexual relationships.
Q4) ________ _________ singles are singles open to marriage but prioritize other goals such as education or career first.
Q5) Sexual orientation suggests that people's sexual identities are _________.
Q6) Discuss the circumstances under which LAT and transnational marriages occur?
Q7) Discuss the four reasons for cohabitating.
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Chapter 10: Reproduction: Decisions About Having or Not Having Children
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Q1) Which group has the highest birth rates?
A)women with high school diplomas
B)women who do not have a high school diploma
C)women who have bachelor's degrees
D)women who have master's degrees
Q2) Some spermicides have a chemical ingredient called nonoxynol-9 and combined in use with a condom is the best contraceptive method for sexually active people in non-monogamous relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Define and describe safe haven laws and their history. Compare and contrast the arguments for and against safe haven laws.
Q4) Which of the following is a cause of low infertility in males?
A)low quality sperm
B)age
C)endometriosis
D)All of the above
Q5) Discuss foster children.
Q7) The total inability to conceive is called ________. Page 12
Q6) Discuss the two exceptions to declining birth rates in the U.S.
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Chapter 11: Children, Families, and Generations
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Q1) What percentage of middle-class family income is spent on child care?
A)7
B)10
C)18
D)23
Q2) Today, people who are 65 and older receive a social security benefit of approximately ________ per month.
A)$800.00
B)$1,000.00
C)$1,500.00
D)$2,100.00
Q3) For men, becoming a father
A)shifts their priorities to focus on becoming a good provider for their children.
B)is a moral transformation.
C)is a time of confusion over roles.
D)All of the above
Q4) Discuss family-oriented workplace policies in the U.S.
Q5) Suggest four ways children of older parents can be better financially prepared to take care of their parents.
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Chapter 12: Work: Economics, Jobs, and Balancing Family Demands
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Q1) In Panel 12.5, what percentage of income did the highest fifth of the U.S. population have?
A)23%
B)14.6%
C)50%
D)8.7%
Q2) During the 1990s and early 2000s, African Americans significantly closed the economic gap between themselves and white workers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a survey by the AFL-CIO on working women with young children, ________ worked a different shift from their husbands.
A)28%
B)39%
C)51%
D)68%
Q4) Identify and discuss the four most important psychological motives for acquiring and using money.
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Q5) Identify three reasons for an increase in the number of stay-at-home mothers.
Chapter 13: Crises: Managing Stress, Disaster, Violence, and Abuse
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Q1) Cite and describe the two kinds of violence in relationships as identified by sociologist Michael Johnson.
Q2) Men who engage in physical and/or emotional aggression often
A)come from homes where the fathers were abusive.
B)were sexually promiscuous as adolescents.
C)have traditional, stereotypic views of women.
D)All of the above
Q3) What is the incidence of marital violence? Cite at least three statistics concerning the different types of marital violence.
Q4) Which of the following is an example of emotional violence?
A)constant criticism
B)sarcasm
C)threats to kill the partner
D)All of the above
Q5) Which of the following is an unpredictable stressor?
A)infidelity
B)unemployment
C)aging
D)Both A and B are correct.
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Chapter 14: Uncoupling: Separation and Divorce
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Q1) What percentage of divorces is settled out of court?
A)48%
B)59%
C)77%
D)90%
Q2) The order of the three stages of mourning in the psychic divorce are
A)denial, anger, and depression.
B)denial, acceptance, and forgiveness.
C)anger, depression, and forgiveness.
D)denial, anger/depression, and acceptance.
Q3) Children of divorced parents are no more at risk to divorce as adults as compared to those whose parents remained married.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As their income levels rise, the divorce rate for African Americans
A)increases sharply.
B)decreases slightly.
C)decreases significantly, matching the rate of whites.
D)matches the level of divorce for Latinos.
Q5) Define and explain separation distress.
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Chapter 15: Remarriage: Reinvented, Renewed, and
Blended Families
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Q1) In the ________ at least one child in the family is the biological child of the parents and another child is from a previous marriage.
A)biological father-stepmother family
B)biological mother-stepfather family
C)joint biological-stepfamily
D)co-custodial stepfamily
Q2) Stepchildren often send cards or notes to their stepparents on Father's Day or Mother's Day.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A stepmother is viewed as being loving toward her stepchildren and also mean and abusive. This is called
A)ambiguous parental boundaries.
B)the stepmother trap.
C)a lack of cultural scripts.
D)a stepparenting dilemma.
Q4) List and discuss the four types of definitions adolescents give for family.
Q5) ____________ in blended families often feel abandoned.
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Q6) ________ _________ are those in which only one partner has been married before.
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