Social Work with Individuals and Families Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational concepts, principles, and techniques of social work practice with individuals and families. Students will learn to assess client needs, develop intervention plans, and apply evidence-based strategies to support and empower individuals and families facing diverse challenges. Emphasis is placed on ethical practice, cultural competence, advocacy, and the use of professional relationships to promote positive change and well-being. The course integrates theoretical knowledge with practical skills through case studies, role plays, and analysis of real-life scenarios, preparing students for effective social work in various settings.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Behavior and the Social Environment
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Q1) Assessment is the "doing" part of the process of social work.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The _____ perspective on communities focuses on how individuals fit into their community environment and are linked to those who govern them.
A) Structural
B) Human ecology
C) Sociopsychological
D) Social systems
Answer: A
Q3) _____ is the community change approach that assumes that change is best accomplished when the people affected by problems are empowered with the knowledge and skills needed to understand their problems,and then work cooperatively together to overcome them.
A) Planning and policy practice
B) Community capacity development
C) Social advocacy
D) Community empowerment
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Biological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) Symptoms of folic acid deficiency are anemia and fatigue. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The National Association of Social Workers' (NASW)position concerning abortion services is based on the principle of self-determination. A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is true regarding embryonic stem cell research: A) Individual states have the authority to pass laws to permit research using state funds B) The first fetal cell transplant for Parkinson's disease was performed for the firsttime in 2002
C) They are taken from an 8-day-old embryo
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Psychological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) Learning disabilities are a form of intellectual disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Being sensitive to diversity when examining psychological theories was discussed in the text. All of the following were cited except:
A) In Japan, sexuality has been minimized and regulated as being tangential to the performance of responsible duty
B) Navajo families maintain a reverence for heritage based on the female line
C) Hindu mothers often teach their children how to control their emotional behavior
D) Jewish tradition does not easily accept employment of women
Answer: D
Q3) Impulsivity is one of the clusters of behaviors that characterize ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Social Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) Learning theory provides a framework for understanding how behavior develops.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A type of _____ in a family system involves the communication and supportive social interaction family members receive from friends,neighbors,and relatives.
A) Output
B) Input
C) Homeostasis
D) Subsystem
Q3) Surrogate parenting has been a pattern for African American grandparents in U.S.society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the five goals of treatment of sexual abuse.
Q5) Early in the extinction process,there is often a brief temporary increase in the frequency of the behavior; this is called an extinction spike.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define child neglect and discuss the characteristics of neglected children.
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Chapter 5: Ethnocentrism and Racism
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Q1) The following is true about strategies against discrimination:
A) Mass media appeals generally have a lasting effect in changing deep-seated prejudices
B) Prejudice is likely to be decreased when contacts between minority groups and the majority group are tension-laden or involuntary
C) Prejudice is apt to subside when individuals of diverse races interact in situations where they share characteristics in nonracial and nonethnic matters
D) Increased contact between minority groups and the majority group is sufficient to alleviate prejudice
Q2) Summarize the five strengths identified by the National Urban League that allow African American families to function effectively in a racist society.
Q3) The _____,in both belief and practice,upholds American ideals of freedom and equality.
A) Prejudiced nondiscriminator
B) Unprejudiced nondiscriminator
C) Unprejudiced discriminator
D) Prejudiced discriminator
Q4) Explain the two systems involved in the dual perspective.
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Chapter 6: Biological Development in Adolescence
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Q1) The structure along the back of each testis in which sperm maturation occurs is called the:
A) Cowper's glands
B) Vas deferens
C) Epididymis
D) Tinidazole
Q2) Explain the differences in adolescent sexual activity between various racial groups.
Q3) Identify five of the most common sexually transmitted infections,relate their symptoms,describe their treatment,and formulate means of prevention.
Q4) ______ for women involves a tubal ligation.
A) Sterilization
B) The pill
C) The condom
D) The diaphragm
Q5) At what age do people have the right to have sexual intercourse? What are the reasons for your answer?
Q6) List four of the reasons cited in the text why teens don't use birth control.
Q7) What are the negative effects of teen pregnancy for mother and child?
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Chapter 7: Psychological Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Marcia's categories of identity include which of the following:
A) Conformity
B) Moratorium
C) Introspection
D) Postconventional
Q2) Assertiveness involves specific skills that can be taught.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Individuative-reflective faith is _____ of Fowler's theory of faith development.
A) Stage 2 (ages 2 to 6 years)
B) Stage 3: (ages 6 to 12 years)
C) Stage 4: (ages 12 years and older)
D) Stage 5: (early adulthood and beyond)
Q4) What are the four questions to keep in mind when evaluating theory and determining how well the theory applies to practice situations?
Q5) List eight specific suggestions for how to treat a potentially suicidal person.
Q6) Explain the New Bridge program. How does it strengthen and enhance racial and cultural identity development for adolescents?
Q7) What are the five stages of the Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model?
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Chapter 8: Social Development in Adolescence
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Q1) In no-lose problem solving:
A) Gordon identifies seven constructive ways in which parents and teenagers can seek to resolve conflicts
B) A good consultant is usually considered a nag
C) Gordon questions whether power is necessary or justified in a parent-teenager relationship
D) I-messages work even if the youth wants his actions to adversely affect his parent
Q2) _____ gangs are turf-oriented and will engage in violent behavior with individuals or rival groups that invade their neighborhood or that commit acts that they consider degrading.
A) Retreatist
B) Cult-Occult
C) Conflict
D) Criminal
Q3) Outline the merits and shortcomings of labeling someone with an emotional or behavioral problem as mentally ill. Do you believe mental illness exists? Give the rationale for your belief.
Q4) How does the deviant subcultures theory explain delinquent gang behavior?
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Chapter 9: Gender,Gender Identity,Gender Expression,and Sexism
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Q1) Describe gender-role differences between Arab and Muslim American men and women within the family context.
Q2) Cite and describe the three basic categories of rapists that were presented in the text.
Q3) Cite and describe the three theoretical views of rape that were presented in the text.
Q4) Parents tend to respond positively to boys who behave actively and to girls who talk calmly or touch gently.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A good suggestion for preventing rape is to carry a weapon such as a gun or a knife.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The third phase of the battering cycle involves:
A) Making up
B) The building up of stress and tension
C) The explosion
D) Avoiding confrontation
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Q7) Explain the difference between a pseudohermaphrodite and a hermaphrodite.
Chapter 10: Biological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Describe the changes in physical strength and reaction time for people in middle adulthood.
Q2) Cite the difference in the death rate for African American males 15 to 24 in the United States compared to their white counterparts. Explain the reason.
Q3) People infected by HIV (including those having AIDS)are covered by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true regarding middle-age pregnancies:
A) Middle age pregnancies do not present any additional health risks than pregnancies at a younger age
B) The risk of Down syndrome is greater with older parents
C) Spontaneous abortions are more common in women who become pregnant before the age of forty years
D) Younger women are more apt to have a prolonged labor than older women
Q5) What are the primary ways in which HIV is transmitted from one person to another?
Q6) Explain the different types of tests used to detect breast cancer.
Q7) What changes in intellectual functioning occurs in middle adulthood?
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Chapter 11: Psychological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) What are Peck's four psychological advances critical to successful adjustment in middle adulthood?
Q2) A person's sexual feelings can be signaled through gestures,and Scheflen states that _____ behavior is designed to send a message that the sender is attracted to the receiver.
A) Romanticizing
B) Coy
C) Preening
D) Primping
Q3) Certain amphetamines are used in the treatment of hyperactivity in children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Codependent people are so trapped by a loved one's addiction that they lose their own identity in the process of obsessively managing the day-to-day trauma created by the addict.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are your thoughts about legalizing marijuana?
Q6) List and explain as many of the axioms of choice theory as you can.
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Chapter 12: Sociological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Within five years after a divorce,approximately three-quarters of all divorced people are remarried.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Cameron-Bandler,a couple in which of the following relationship stage tend to focus on the positive qualities of each other:
A) Expectation
B) Verification
C) Threshold/perceptual reorientation
D) Appreciation
Q3) Some of the symbols used in the ecomap are identical to those used in the genogram.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Design a genogram of your own family,including your grandparents,parents,siblings,etc.
Q5) Oscar Lewis has developed a "culture of poverty" explanation for why poverty is passed on from one generation to another. Describe this theory,and analyze the merits and shortcomings of this explanation.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Orientation
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Q1) Discuss suggestions for counseling gay/lesbian people. Explain and examine your own feelings about counseling gay people. Discuss which suggestions you feel might be the most helpful for you to use,and explain why.
Q2) Describe the interactionist theory of homosexuality.
Q3) Kinsey found that ______ of American men had homosexual experiences leading to orgasm during their adolescent or adult lives.
A) About 3 percent
B) One-fourth
C) Over one-third
D) One-half
Q4) A _____ person is romantically and sexually attracted to members of either gender.
A) Transsexual
B) Transgender
C) Bisexual
D) Hermaphrodite
Q5) While having sexual intercourse with his wife,a man frequently fantasizes about having sexual relations with other men. He has never had any actual sexual contact with a man in his adult life. Is he a homosexual?
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Chapter 14: Biological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) At age 89,_____ headed a hospital in Africa.
A) Konrad Adenauer
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Arthur Rubenstein
D) Albert Schweitzer
Q2) At age 89,_____ gave one of his greatest recitals in New York's Carnegie Hall.
A) Konrad Adenauer
B) Marv Baker Eddy
C) Arthur Rubenstein
D) Albert Schweitzer
Q3) The process of vaginal lubrication in women is analogous to erection in males.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define the three relaxation techniques discussed in the text.
Q5) _____ involves clouding of the lens of the eye or of its capsule that obstructs the passage of light.
A) Glaucoma
B) Cataract
C) Macular degeneration
Q6) What are the vestibular senses,and what changes occur as people age?
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Chapter 15: Psychological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) List seven of the ten developmental tasks listed in the text that older people encounter.
Q2) 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
Q3) This type of grandparent assumes considerable caretaking responsibilities usually because the parents are working or because the mother is single and working:
A) Surrogate parent
B) Distant figure
C) Fun seeker
D) Reservoir of family wisdom
Q4) In Buddhism the law of Karma holds that good and evil deeds result in appropriate rewards or punishments in this life or in a succession of rebirths.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Do you believe there is life after death? Why or why not?
Q6) List four factors that are related to satisfaction in later adulthood.
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Chapter 16: Sociological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) If you were physically and mentally healthy and in your 70s,would you continue to be employed?
Q2) What is involved in the Supplemental Security Income program?
Q3) Homemaker services is a program that provides visiting nurse services,physical therapy,drugs,laboratory services,and sickroom equipment to people in their homes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Our society places a high value on youthful energy and action.
A)True
B)False
Q5) This program created the Administration on Aging,and is the basis for financial aid by the Federal government to assist states and local communities to meet the needs of older people:
A) Older Americans Act of 1965
B) Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
C) Medicare
D) Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance (OASDHI)
Q6) Identify five factors that predict high status for older people in a culture.
Q7) Explain the advantages and disadvantages to society for early retirement.
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