Social Work Question
Learning Goal: I’m working on a social work test/quiz prep and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
1)Social workers are committed to evidence-based practice, which is, simply stated, using a particular intervention for an issue, problem, or disorder based on the results of research
True or false
2) The USA has a free enterprise, private sector, for-profit health insurance health care system
True or false
3) The main difference between prejudice and discrimination is “action”. Meaning, discrimination is acting on your prejudice.
True or false
4) The Nordic countries — including Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden — provide especially generous family leave rights and benefits. Most new parents have the right to take approximately one year of leave, and they receive about two-thirds or more of their pay.
True or false
5) Theories of empowerment are derived from: Sociology, Economics & Political Theory, Liberation theology, and Social Work Theories
True or false
6) In recent decades, many European countries have restructured their social policies to trim costs and improve economic outcomes. However, programs that support workers with family responsibilities — including paid leave, child care, and rights to high-quality reduced-hour work — were singled out for protection and growth rather than cutbacks
True or false
7) Medicare and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are examples of socialist (government-run health care) health care.
True or false
8) In order to facilitate empowerment, one must undergo the process of empowerment.
True or false
9) The ethical principle of Human Relationships is: Social Workers recognize the central importance of human relationships.
True false
10) Empowerment is categorized both as a process and product
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11) Systems Theory explains human behavior as the intersection of the influence of multiple interrelated systems. According to this theory, all systems are interrelated parts constituting an ordered whole and each subsystem influenced other parts of the whole
True or false
12) American health insurance companies routinely reject applicants with a “preexisting condition”
True or false
13 Direct Power Block are often taken down by legal intervention the changing of laws of societal outrage.
True or false
14) When we are thinking about unraveling internal oppression we often need to look at the indirect power blocks each individual faces, that they much overcome in order to be empowered.
True or false
15) Social workers are obligated to ask themselves, “What evidence do I have that my proposed idea or intervention will help?
True or false
16) Social Worker, Barbara Solomon. Defines empowerment as “a process whereby the social worker engages in a set of activities with the client…the aim to reduce the powerlessness that has been created by the negative valuation based on membership in a stigmatized group”
True or false
17) The ethical principle of Dignity and Worth of a Person is: Social Workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person
True or false
18) Social workers use this conflict theory to understand clients who are experiencing oppression in some form or another in our capitalist society
True or False
19) Indirect Power Block: Often associated with internalized oppression and are much harder to unravel than Direct Power Blocks.
True or false
20) US health insurance companies employ armies of adjusters to deny claims. If a customer is hit by a truck and faces big medical bills, the insurer’s “rescission department” digs through the records looking for grounds to cancel the policy, often while the victim is still in the hospital.
True or false
21) When addressing systemic oppression oftentimes we are talking about the direct power blocks that we can change.
True or false
22) Foreign health insurance plans exist only to pay people’s medical bills, not to make a profit
True or false
23) Social Workers can work towards social justice through the following activities/work: direct practice, community organizing, supervision, consultation, administration, advocacy, social and political action, policy development and implementation, education, and research and evaluation.
True or false
24) In terms of finance (health care expenses), we (US health care system) force 700,000 Americans into bankruptcy each year because of medical bills
True or false
25) Empowerment is an ongoing process
True or false
26) Prejudice is an attitudes that prejudge a group, and they’re usually negative, and they’re not based on any sort of facts.
True or false
27) Theory -A general statement about the real world whose essential truth can be supported by evidence obtained through the scientific method. – Must explain in a provable way why something happens
True or false
28) Empowerment – a process by which individual and groups gain power to access resources and to control the circumstances if their lives.
True or false
29) Indirect Power Blocks refer to our thinking about ourselves. It the narratives that we tell ourselves about our ability to overcome
True or false
30) All theories of empowerment refer to power, which is defined as the ability to access and control resources and people.
True or false
31) Empowerment requires self-awareness
True or false
32) The ethical principle of Service is: Social workers’ primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems
33) Being a child in a low income or poor family does not happen by chance. There are a range of factors associated with children’s experiences of economic insecurity, including race/ethnicity and parents’ education and employment
True or false
34) Generalist Social Workers learn to think of people as constantly interacting with their environment, this is known as the person-in-environment perspective
True or false
35) The ethical principle of Social Justice is: Social Workers challenge social injustice
True or false
36) There is a process to become empowered and there is a product of empowerment
True or false
True or false
38) Discrimination is differential treatment and harmful actions against minorities
True or false
39) Collective actions is usually met by resistance
True or false
40) The following is a theoretical definition of empowerment: Empowerment is the process by which individuals and groups gain power to access resources and to control the circumstances of their lives
True or false
41) Direct power blocks: Refer to those things that structurally exist, that eliminate or severely hamper an individual’s opportunity to attain. Direct power blocks exist to maintain the status that we are in.
True or false
42) Generous work/family policies are good for parents, children, and worker productivity, and especially benefit lower-income workers who tend to have less bargaining power and cannot afford to pay for help privately
True or false
43) The ethical principle of Competence is: Social Workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.
True or false
44) Perspective – A way of perceiving the world flows from a value position.
True or false
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46) The ethical principle of Competence is: Social Workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.
True or false
47) Example of a Direct Power Block: In the past, voting laws required a literacy test.
True or false
48) The strengths perspective gives credence to the idea that every person has strengths to call on in solving their problems. The social worker assumes that the client has multiple strengths. The social worker tries to assess the strengths of the individual/group/community and emphasizes these strengths in the helping relationship
True or false
49) The five most useful theoretical foundations for Social Workers are Systems Theory, the Ecological Perspective, Empowerment Theory, the Strengths Perspective, and Evidence-Based Practice”
True or false
50) The United States is the only developed country that lets insurance companies profit from basic health coverage.
True or false
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