Deck 8: Administration and Research

Question 1

In social work administration, the basic processes often used are

A) planning, organizing, staffing, and funding
B) planning, organizing, staffing, intervening, and controlling
C) planning, organizing, directing, and controlling
D) planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling

Answer 1

planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling

Question 2

One of the basic principles in administration is that

A) Only the directors and executives participate in the administrative process
B) The administrative team consists of top executives consultants, and social workers only
C) The administrative team needs to be very small consisting of no more than 2 or 3 people
D) All levels of staff participate in the administrative process

Answer 2

All levels of staff participate in the administrative process

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT true about supervision in the social work profession?

A) Supervision implies having control over the supervisee
B) Supervision focuses on the acquisition and use of knowledge and the application of skills to practice.
C) Supervision can be thought of as an administrative process that assists staff development and performance.
D) Supervision is a response to the needs of clients

Answer 3

Supervision implies having control over the supervisee

Question 4

Which of the following statements is NOT usually true about supervision?

A) Records of supervisory conferences are often used against the supervisee to protect the agency from law suits.
B) Evaluation conferences may become a source of anxiety or satisfaction for the supervisee
C) A basic goal in supervision should be helping a worker become independent in planning and implementing the worker's practice.
D) Supervisors need to bring to their jobs a readiness to live beyond themselves and a concern for people.

Question 5

Consultation

A) Is the territory of social work profession only
B) Provides easy solutions to inadequately trained workers
C) Is an interaction between professional persons who explore a problem to find a solution that will best serve the needs of a client.
D) Is often used for hiring and firing employees

Question 6

Collaboration

A) Is always a formally designed interagency process
B) Reflects a lack of resources within an individual organization
C) Is often used to persecute delinquent clients at multi-agency levels
D) is an orchestration of agency services, professional talents, and client needs.

Question 7

Teamwork

A) Derives its meaning and validity from the autocratic tradition
B) Is compatible with an authoritarian ideology
C) Requires all team members to have identical personalities
D) Is a dynamic process that develops from the discovery of self and others

Question 8

Social work focuses

A) Primarily on Pure research
B) Primarily on applied research
C) On random and non-methodical inquiry into social phenomena
D) On systematic inquiry regarding social situations and problems

Question 9

Which of the following values of research attach to social work?

A) Accurate observation is basic to both research and other aspects of social work.
B) Applied research and social work practice rely on assumptions to reach valid conclusions
C) Practitioners who develop abilities to do research are no longer able to work as a direct-practitioner
D) Scientific attitudes and techniques are not compatible with social work values

Question 10

Which of the following methods and techniques is NOT utilized in social work research?

A) Experimental research
B) Case-study
C) Electro-magnetic research
D) Evaluation research

Question 11

Describe the basic assumptions and principles of social work administration.

Question 12

Describe how supervision is used as a teaching tool in social work training. Include information relating to techniques used in the supervisory process.

Question 13

Explain how consultation allows social workers to help their clients. What are the basic principles of consultation?

Question 14

Describe the advantages of using "collaboration" in social work practice.

Question 15

List and explain the various methods and techniques utilized in social work research