Deck 26: Informal Helping and Mutual Aid

Question 1

Provide a biography on Father Moses Coady, and discuss how the Antigonish Movement has evolved up to the present time.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Provide the history, mission and mandate and the twelve steps of AA, the model of many subsequent self-help groups.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Discuss the Tsunami disaster December 26^th, 2004 in terms of informal and formal service systems.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Find a case study and develop a social network map for the client. Describe this in terms of social supports, helping and natural helpers, self-help, and informal support networks.

Question 5

Find two articles about two different self-help groups, and identify the similarities and differences between the two groups.

Question 6

Define a natural helping network and provide an example.

Question 7

Diagram your social network map and explain your map.

Question 8

Define social networks and provide an example.

Question 9

Give eight key aspects of a self-help group.

Question 10

What do formal services offer that is different from informal services?

Question 11

The social buffering hypothesis suggests that

A) People with little or no social support are at a greater disadvantage in coping with the demands of every day life
B) People with strong natural support systems are better able to deal with major life changes and challenges
C) People in stressful situations are likely to suffer more physical, emotional and social dysfunction if they have good connections to supportive social networks
D) None of the above
E) A and C above.

Question 12

Professional relationships focus upon

A) Practical help
B) Experiential knowledge
C) Consensual validation
D) A and B above
E) None of the above

Question 13

Lay support is more likely to involve

A) Communication and listening skills
B) Confrontation
C) Problem-solving
D) B and C above
E) None of the above

Question 14

In self-help groups, the following themes are found

A) Help as a free, shared resource
B) Formal structures
C) Tend to be expert-based
D) None of the above
E) A and C above

Question 15

The strengths of the informal system are

A) Help is usually available quickly
B) It is highly personalized
C) It is non-stigmatizing
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 16

The weaknesses of formal services are well understood. Formal services are:

A) Costly
B) May be inefficient
C) Hard to change
D) Not readily responsive
E) All of the above

Question 17

Compassion care benefits

A) Are part of the provincial social assistance plan
B) Are part of the national Employment Insurance program
C) Are available for twelve weeks within a 26 week period
D) Cannot be shared with other family members who also qualify
E) A and C above

Question 18

The strengths of the informal system are

A) Limited
B) Intrusive
C) First line of defence for those in need
D) A good substitute if coverage, equity and entitlement are valued
E) A and B above

Question 19

Social networks are

A) Relatively invisible to us
B) Easily taken for granted
C) Not very useful for understanding people's social functioning
D) All of the above
E) A and B above

Question 20

Informal helpers can

A) Listen
B) Help clarify problems
C) Involve practical help
D) Involve friendship-based relationships
E) All of the above

Question 21

The social-buffering hypothesis posits that people with weak natural support systems are as able to deal with major life changes and challenges as people with strong support systems.

Question 22

People's participation in mutual aid groups can help people solve problems and live with challenges.

Question 23

Helping can take many forms from individual self-reliance to sophisticated professional therapies.

Question 24

Professionals are very likely to see informal kinds of helping as insignificant.

Question 25

An industry-driven economy strengthened natural support systems for many people.

Question 26

The Antigonish Movement is a community development movement that began in Atlantic Canada.

Question 27

Some professionals consider mutual aid an adjunct or aftercare to their clinical work.

Question 28

Informal natural helping roles have greatly diminished in importance.

Question 29

Different helping systems interact with and affect one another.

Question 30

Adequate social supports can protect people in crisis from a wide variety of pathological states.