Deck 11: Social Construction - Strengths and Solutions

Question 1

A strengths perspective developed from:

A) an effort to reduce the importance of the deficit in people's lives
B) an attempt to amplify and extend advantages
C) a way to offer alternative perspectives
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

A strengths perspective developed from:

A) positive psychology
B) child welfare work
C) agency mandates
D) none of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Deconstruction refers to analyzing the elements of a situation:

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The discourse approach:

A) explores situations by examining the language used by people involved
B) understanding different positions that people express or demonstrate
C) exposes the tensions and systems of mutual support
D) all of the above

Question 5

Social constructs correspond with:

A) personal construct theory
B) individual perspectives on the world
C) shared social realities with other people
D) none of the above

Question 6

Social work has often been regarded as modernist because:

A) represents universal and timeless ideas that people are responsible for each other
B) it arose from the social problems created by the Industrial Revolution
C) it believes that human beings do not manage their lives rationally
D) social work often operates in advance of society itself, thus setting the standards

Question 7

The idea that practitioners can always find alternatives to any system of social thinking is associated with:

A) deconstructionism
B) post-modernism
C) social learning
D) radical social work

Question 8

One challenge created by these theories to social work values is found in the fact that social work is often expected to enforce the accepted moral expectations of agencies.

Question 9

Important feature(s) of practice with these ideas is:

A) maintaining a positive focus on the desired outcomes
B) working to identify personal strengths
C) looking for client's own solutions
D) all of the above

Question 10

All of these perspectives draw on:

A) principles of macro practice
B) social development
C) postmodern social construction theory
D) none of the above

Question 11

In regard to social construction ideas, social problems arise when a group's ______ creates a problematic status for a social issue.

A) claims-making
B) underlying problems
C) perceptions
D) oppression

Question 12

Exploring situations through examining the language used by people to understand the different positions and thus the tensions and systems of mutual support is called:

A) analytic linguistics
B) focal point theory
C) discourse
D) scaling

Question 13

A strong argument in favor of these perspectives is their emphasis on building non-judgmentally on the positives and achievements in people's lives.

Question 14

One of the difficulties that arise in the critiques of these perspectives is that:

A) they do not significantly implement shared values principles
B) that these perspectives tend to be judgmental
C) they for the most part strictly conform to social work agency policies
D) being positive does not sufficiently recognize the reality that clients and the people around them may be experiencing damaging problems

Question 15

All of these perspectives have extensive and well-documented empirical research support.

Question 16

The assumption that practitioners can always find alternatives to any system of social thinking is a characteristic of:

A) strengths-based approaches
B) feminism
C) modernism
D) postmodernism

Question 17

Concerns that postmodern perspectives lead to moral relativism are countered by their emphasis on the alternatives that are open to people, given practitioners' assistance:

Question 18

Taking apart a situation through analyzing its elements and then exposing whose power has made those elements important to the situation is referred to as:

A) devolution
B) déclassé
C) deconstruction
D) denology

Question 19

A practice idea that helps clients and practitioners be specific about their aims and objectives is:

A) role-playing
B) scaling
C) journaling
D) none of the above

Question 20

Strengths and solutions perspectives are a powerful source of the shared principle of working towards positive objectives: