Deck 24: Social Workers

Question 1

Trace the history of the women's movement in Canada. For each stage identify a key figure and purpose.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

Identify the critical issues in the debate about same-sex marriage.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Personal and social change is a challenging mandate. Develop a single-subject ABAC design to change one of your behaviours. Provide the graph and daily evaluative notes.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Find an article in a social work journal on harm reduction strategies. Identify the intended recipients, summarize the findings, and identify one social policy that exists or should be created to support this area of harm reduction.

Question 5

Review the CASW Code of Ethics for Social workers. Identify which statements in the Code of Ethics would be violated by the examples on pp. 358-359.

Question 6

Define social humanism.

Question 7

Define social justice.

Question 8

Identify five change mandates of the profession of social work.

Question 9

Identify four professional mandates of social work.

Question 10

Give three reasons for use of interdisciplinary case consultation and two reasons to use professional teams.

Question 11

Social justice involves

A) Human rights
B) Entitlements and provision
C) Social control
D) All of the above
E) A and B above

Question 12

Professional teams are used because

A) They make specialized skills and knowledge available.
B) They are less expensive than individual consulting
C) They facilitate coordinated and effective delivery of service
D) A and C above
E) None of the above

Question 13

Interventions in social work are framed in terms of

A) Preferred practices
B) Time constraints
C) Mandated insurance coverage time limits
D) Cost restraints
E) All of the above

Question 14

Social work has been instrumental in the development of

A) United Nationals programmes for health, education and welfare
B) Social exclusion of diverse, minorities and marginalized collectives
C) Terrorist prevention programs
D) All of the above
E) A and B above

Question 15

Social workers undertake to evaluate and enable

A) The meeting of basic biopsychosocial needs
B) The formulation of solutions to personal and social problems
C) The avoidance, reduction, and/or control of personal or social risks
D) All of the above
E) A and C above

Question 16

Harm reduction policies

A) Are promoted by social workers
B) Have been not been directed toward prostitution
C) Have been not directed toward street drug use
D) Have not been directed toward needle exchanges
E) None of the above

Question 17

Social worker have always been engaged in preventive activities such as

A) Education, such as addiction awareness
B) Dissemination of information such as contraceptive information
C) Raising collective awareness such as the risks of unprotected sexual intercourse
D) Brief intervention such as school social workers who try and re-engage recent drop-outs
E) All of the above

Question 18

Social workers have contributed to the development and implementation of

A) Universal benefits
B) Targeted security benefits
C) Protection services
D) Family preservation services
E) All of the above

Question 19

Social workers must

A) Continue advocacy
B) Assert our strengths
C) Create more opportunities for our voices and those of our clients to be heard
D) Participate actively in the new global order
E) All of the above

Question 20

If a client wishes to commit suicide, the social worker would have a professional mandate to protect the client against this expressed wish.

Question 21

Social work has emphasized building on people's strength and abilities.

Question 22

The social work profession does not promote entitlements and provision.

Question 23

Various women's movements have had little influence upon social work, as it is a female-dominated profession.

Question 24

The focus of the individual social worker or agency may vary, depending upon the situation, between personal change and collective change.

Question 25

Social workers would not help client systems process existential issues.

Question 26

Social workers must apply information and techniques with due respect to their professional mission, values, and ethics and to the social political climate in which the client system lives.

Question 27

The first level of partnership is with the client.

Question 28

Supervision may be formalized or take the form of informal case consultation, but the profession often demands that the social worker's professional judgements and actions be supervised by another professional worker.

Question 29

In most provinces, the law regulates the profession of social work.