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Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational principles, methods, and skills required for effective social work practice with individuals and families. Students will examine the various stages of the helping process, including engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation, within diverse cultural and social contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding theories of human behavior, resilience, and family systems, as well as developing competencies in communication, empathy, and ethical decision-making. Through case studies and practical exercises, the course prepares students to address challenges related to mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, and other issues commonly faced by clients, empowering them to support and advocate for individuals and families in need.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Behavior and the Social Environment
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Q1) Throughout a social work career,professionals must face and address ethical dilemmas,and must learn to tolerate ambiguity in resolving them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) _____ is the careful examination and evaluation of beliefs and actions to establish an independent decision about what is true and what is not.
A) Critical thinking
B) Ethical evaluation
C) Value examination
D) Ethical decision making
Answer: A
Q3) Outcome is a more general term than output for the result of a process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Biological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) At age 2,children tend to play alongside of each other,but not with each other in a cooperative fashion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Four-month-old babies are able to sit alone without being supported.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Symptoms of folic acid deficiency are anemia and fatigue.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The first level involved in the feminist treatment of infertility addresses the general social attitudes about infertility and expectations about what infertile women should do.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Psychological Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) In the _____,social work began questioning the usefulness of the medical model.
A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1980s
Answer: B
Q2) Vygotsky's _____ is the difference between what a learner can accomplish independently and what he or she can accomplish with the guidance and encouragement of a more skilled partner.
A) Dialectical thinking
B) Post-formal thought
C) Period of concrete operations
D) Zone of proximal development
Answer: D
Q3) Blindness is legally defined as visual acuity that is 20/100 and above.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Social Development in Infancy and Childhood
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Q1) Learning a behavior by observing another engaging in that behavior is called:
A) Antecedent learning
B) Positive reinforcement
C) Modeling
D) Respondent conditioning
Q2) The effects of punishment are often temporary.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research provides mixed results regarding the effects of birth order on children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How would you measure improvement of a specific behavior?
Q5) Which of the following improves the effectiveness of time-outs:
A) Apply the time-out immediately
B) Limit the time-out to a maximum of 20 minutes
C) Give positive reinforcement during the time-out
D) Appropriate behavior should not be praised after a time-out
Q6) List the five goals of treatment of sexual abuse.
Q7) Explain the process of socialization,and why it is so important.
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Chapter 5: Ethnocentrism and Racism
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Q1) Rosa Park's act that sparked the civil rights movement happened on a bus in:
A) Montgomery, Alabama
B) Selma, Alabama
C) Jackson, Mississippi
D) Biloxi, Mississippi
Q2) Summarize the strategies that are currently used in this country to promote social and economic justice for oppressed racial and ethnic groups. Describe the merits and shortcomings of each of these strategies.
Q3) The following is true about race:
A) There are clearly delineating characteristics of any race
B) Each racial group has unique and distinctive genes
C) Race becomes a very dangerous myth when it is assumed that physical traits are linked with mental traits and cultural achievements
D) The fact that some studies have found that African Americans tend to receive, on the average, somewhat lower scores on IQ tests unquestionably demonstrates that African Americans are biologically inferior in intelligence
Q4) Summarize the National Association of Social Workers' Standards for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice.
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Chapter 6: Biological Development in Adolescence
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Q1) List four of the reasons cited in the text why teens don't use birth control.
Q2) The female condom:
A) Consists of two rings connected by latex
B) Should be used together with a male condom
C) Cannot be used during anal intercourse
D) The actual effectiveness rate is 95 percent
Q3) When does the growth spurt occur? How does it affect boys and girls differently?
Q4) Which of the following is true about early maturing boys as opposed to late maturing boys:
A) They are more likely to get in trouble with drugs and alcohol
B) They tend to have low self-esteem
C) They tend to feel inferior
D) They tend to feel less popular
Q5) Describe four major means of contraception available today. Compare and contrast these means in terms of effectiveness,advantages,and disadvantages.
Q6) Compare and contrast primary and secondary sex characteristics.
Q7) Syphilis is much more deadly than gonorrhea.
A)True
B)False
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Q8) 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) Cite why lesbian and gay adolescents in this culture suffer even more extreme obstacles to identity development than do their heterosexual peers.
Q2) Assertiveness involves specific skills that can be taught.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In _____ of Kohlberg's moral development,good behavior is considered to be what pleases others. There is a strong desire to please and gain the approval of others.
A) Stage 2: Naive Instrumental Hedonism
B) Stage 3: Good Boy/Girl Morality
C) Stage 4: Authority-Maintaining Morality
D) Stage 5: Morality of Contract, of Individual Rights, and of Democratically Accepted Law
Q4) In the introspection stage of the racial/cultural identity development model,the person becomes aware that racism does exist,and that not all aspects of minority or majority culture are good or bad.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define spirituality and explain its importance to social workers.
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Chapter 8: Social Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Most bulimics are male and most anorexics are female.
A)True
B)False
Q2) List seven disorders that are included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 category of personality disorders.
Q3) Juvenile court proceedings have the same philosophy and processes as adult criminal court proceedings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Rational therapy asserts that assessing human behavior is largely a process of identifying the cognitions that underlie unwanted emotions or dysfunctional behavior. Describe what is meant by this assertion. How can a professional identify cognitions that underlie unwanted emotions or dysfunctional behaviors of a client?
Q5) Part D(b)of a rational self-analysis contains:
A) Self-talk
B) Emotional consequences
C) Rational self-talk challenges
D) Emotional goals and behavioral goals for future
Q6) How does the deviant subcultures theory explain delinquent gang behavior?
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Chapter 9: Gender,Gender Identity,Gender Expression,and
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Q1) People who derive sexual gratification from dressing in the clothing of the opposite gender,and who are almost all heterosexual males,are called:
A) Transvestites
B) Transsexuals
C) Drag queens
D) Drag kings
Q2) Describe possible actions a social worker can take to advocate at the macro level for battered women.
Q3) Explain the difference between a pseudohermaphrodite and a hermaphrodite.
Q4) Which of the following is true regarding research on sexual harassment:
A) Being called gay or lesbian in a negative way is not considered sexual harassment
B) Middle and high school boys' experiences tend to be more physical and intrusive than girls' experiences
C) Middle and high school boys were more likely than girls to be sexual harassed
D) Male and female college students are nearly equally likely to be sexually harassed on campus
Q5) Cite and discuss counseling strategies for working with battered women.
Q6) Define gender.
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Chapter 10: Biological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Two forms of benign breast lumps are cysts and fibroadenomas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the various surgical procedures involved in the treatment of breast cancer.
Q3) If you were married and your spouse had an extramarital affair,would you seek a divorce? Why or why not?
Q4) Most women age 50 to 59 report engaging in sexual intercourse a few times per year.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the different types of tests used to detect breast cancer.
Q6) The highest percentage of frequency for men age 25 to 29 engaging in sexual intercourse has been found to be:
A) 4 or more times a week
B) 2 to 3 times a week
C) A few times per month
D) A few times per year
Q7) How can the transmission of HIV best be curtailed?
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Chapter 11: Psychological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Describe the major suggestions for treating the chemically dependent person and family.
Q2) In Maslow's hierarchy of needs,which of the following is the next highest after safety:
A) Belongingness and love
B) Self-actualization
C) Self-esteem
D) Physiological needs
Q3) Do parents sometimes need to nag,preach to,and punish their children? How does your answer correspond to Glasser's choice theory axioms?
Q4) Peck suggests it is psychologically healthy for middle-aged adults to redefine the men and women in their lives so that they value them as sex objects,rather than friends and companions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When a high-status person and a low-status person are looking at each other,the high-status person tends to look away first.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Sociological Aspects of Young and Middle
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Q1) Theory X approach to organizational behavior is most consistent with the following model:
A) Autocratic model
B) Custodial model
C) Human relations model
D) Theory Y
Q2) Within five years after a divorce,approximately three-quarters of all divorced people are remarried.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A key factor in how traumatic a divorce will be for a child is how well the parents deal with the child's concerns,fears,questions,and anxieties.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Summarize the major problems encountered by blended families. What suggestions do you have for parents in blended families to successfully handle the problems that you identified?
Q5) Describe total quality management.
Q6) What is involved in Theory Z?
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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) 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
Q3) Are you homophobic? If so,how are you going to deal with a gay or lesbian client? If not,how are you going to deal with a homophobic client?
Q4) 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
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Chapter 14: Biological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) What is Alzheimer's disease? Describe the intellectual and physical changes that occur in those afflicted.
Q2) List eight health practices that have been found to be positively related to good health and longevity.
Q3) Which of the following is true about glaucoma:
A) It is a disease affecting the muscles around the heart of older people
B) Smokers are about four times as likely to develop this condition
C) It is the leading cause of functional blindness in older people
D) It can be treated and controlled by eye drops
Q4) At the time of this writing,there are no disadvantages to genetic testing.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Researchers have now identified a few genes as being linked to causing Alzheimer's disease.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Regularity of sexual release does not help to maintain sexual response capability in later years.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Psychological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) Abraham is viewed as being an important ancestor or father in which of the following religions:
A) Judaism
B) Buddhism
C) Islam
D) Christianity
Q2) According to Erikson,which of the following is true about older people who achieve integrity:
A) They have an attitude of calm acceptance of death
B) They may seek death as a way of ending a miserable existence
C) They may desperately fear death because it makes any hope of compensating for past failures impossible
D) They view their lives as incomplete and unfulfilling
Q3) Our society has generally been successful in finding something important and satisfying for older people to do.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List and describe the three key psychological adjustments suggested by Peck that must be made in order to make later adulthood meaningful and gratifying.
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Chapter 16: Sociological Aspects of Later Adulthood
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Q1) Once President Obama's health-care reform is fully implemented,the 32 million people who were uninsured in 2010 will be covered.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast Medicare and Medicaid.
Q3) The action-oriented group that seeks to end ageism that was talked about in the text is called the Gray Ladies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The founder of this organization stated that "we are not mellow,sweet old people":
A) White-haired Old Bats
B) Gray Brigade
C) Gray Panthers
D) AARP
Q5) Research supports the idea that engaging in productive activity is correlated with successful aging.
A)True
B)False
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