Deck 1: Understanding Social Work Practice

Question 1

Which of the following statements best reflects the primary mission of the social work profession?

A) To provide community services
B) To support the people in power
C) To support vulnerable and oppressed groups and individuals
D) To evaluate community programs

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A person-in-environment perspective conceptualizes a client or community from a narrow and singular perspective.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Social workers use supervision and reflection for all of the following reasons except

A) To better understand their self-perspective
B) To learn about biases that may impact client care
C) To gain information about clients and communities
D) To maintain a clear understanding of beliefs that may impact practice decisions

Answer 3

C

Question 4

A social worker who works to achieve resources that will enhance the well-being of a client is working in the role of

A) Counselor
B) Broker
C) Advocate
D) Educator

Question 5

In the generalist model, which of the following is an important social work role?

A) Counselor
B) Case Manager
C) Advocate
D) All of the above

Question 6

Social workers must exhibit the ability to knowledge, values, and skills into practice situations.

Question 7

Which of the following terms communicates the idea that a social worker can never be completely competent in another community's culture?

A) Cultural Competence
B) Cultural Humility
C) Cultural Awareness
D) Cultural Diversity

Question 8

The term cultural competence is best defined as:

A) Social workers' extensive experience with cultures different from their own
B) The process by which social workers respectfully and effectively help a client or community in the context of cultural differences
C) Social workers demonstrating broad skills to work with people of different cultures
D) None of the above

Question 9

Which of the following is a central social work value?

A) The inherent worth of people
B) The need for honest communication
C) Respect for diverse communities
D) All of the above are central social work values

Question 10

The role of the NASW's Code of Ethics can best be described as:

A) A professional guide that helps the social worker make professional decisions that reflect social work values
B) A set of rigid rules that are difficult to apply to complex practice situations
C) An irrelevant and underutilized document that social workers learn about but do not use in practice
D) None of the above

Question 11

In the generalist model, professional practice skills include all of the following except:

A) The ability to write clear and concise case notes
B) The ability to speak publicly about efforts to create social change
C) The ability to facilitate groups
D) The ability to always make the correct decision

Question 12

Clinical social workers

A) Seek to advocate for community systems
B) Focus on presenting research to academic communities
C) Help people resolve emotional challenges
D) Have professional responsibilities to eliminate social problems

Question 13

A social worker who seeks to reduce a social problem within a community is practicing as a

A) Clinical social worker
B) Activist
C) Macro social worker
D) Micro social worker

Question 14

In social work practice, engagement is an important process because it:

A) Establishes a sense of trust between social worker and client
B) Enables social workers to have dual relationships
C) Only happens once in working relationships
D) Evaluates the effectiveness of the plan of action

Question 15

In which phase of social work is the central focus on the client's goals?

A) Intervention
B) Evaluation
C) Assessment and Planning
D) Termination

Question 16

Which phase of social work refers to doing the work that allows a client to accomplish his/her/their goals?

A) Engagement
B) Assessment and Planning
C) Intervention
D) Termination

Question 17

It is important for social workers to use research to shape which phases of social work practice?

A) Assessment
B) Planning
C) Intervention
D) All of the above

Question 18

The termination phase of social work may include all of the following tasks except:

A) Acknowledging the client's accomplishments
B) Deciding on a course of action to accomplish the client's goals
C) Creating plans to maintain the client's achievements
D) Developing follow-up plans

Question 19

There is an established tension between which of the following concepts:

A) Social work practice with individuals and social work practice that focuses on larger systems.
B) Social workers implementing change and social workers helping clients accept difficult circumstances
C) The role of the expert and the idea of shared power
D) All of the examples demonstrate established tensions in the social work profession

Question 20

The idea that we must understand an individual's family, community, social, and political environment is central to social work practice.

Question 21

The main focus of the social justice perspective is

A) On a person's strengths
B) On a person's disadvantages
C) Equal distribution of resources
D) On the legal rights of a person

Question 22

The strengths perspective focuses on:

A) The dignity and resilience of people in overcoming obstacles
B) The ways that the community may view the individual
C) The trauma presented in the client's challenges
D) A person's access to resources

Question 23

The ability for the client's story to guide the social worker's development of the intervention is best represented by which of the following theoretical perspectives?

A) Solution-Focused Approach
B) Strengths Perspective
C) Social Justice Perspective
D) Narrative Theory

Question 24

In which of the following theoretical perspectives does the client utilize available resources and strengths to meet specific goals?

A) Solution-Focused Approach
B) Strengths Perspective
C) Social Justice Perspective
D) Narrative Theory

Question 25

Which of the following initiatives seeks to encourage social workers to explore and develop solutions to society's most pressing social problems?

A) The NASW's Code of Ethics
B) The AASWSW's Grand Challenges for Social Work
C) The Declaration for Human Rights
D) The Council on Social Work Education

Question 26

In what ways might the social work profession's recent focus on cultural humility support the value and ethics base of the social work profession?

Question 27

Choose one of the tensions in social work listed in the text and explain why this might be a tension. Give an example of how the tension might play out in practice.

Question 28

Explain why self-knowledge is important to social work. Give an example of a situation in which a social worker's lack of self-knowledge could negatively impact a client. Create a plan to resolve the situation that would improve the social worker's self-knowledge base.

Question 29

Why does the social work profession rely on theory to inform practice decisions? What would happen if we made social work practice decisions without relying on theoretical perspectives?

Question 30

Choose one of the Grand Challenges for Social Work to explore. Explain the way in which this Grand Challenge offers the social work profession an opportunity to provide knowledge, skills, and experiences that can improve social, economic, or environmental well-being.

Question 31

Which of the following best reflects the broad mission of social work, according to the NASW Code of Ethics?

A) To provide mental health services to children and families
B) To enhance human well-being and help meet basic human needs
C) To provide services to children in the foster care system
D) To assess and evaluate programs and services

Question 32

Which of the following roles is an important feature of the generalist model?

A) Advocate
B) Partner
C) Manager
D) All of the above

Question 33

In the ___________ phase of social work, the central focus is on the client's goals.

A) Intervention
B) Evaluation
C) Assessment
D) Termination

Question 34

The strengths perspective focuses on:

A) The dignity and resilience of people in overcoming challenges
B) The ways that the community may view the individual
C) The trauma presented in the client's challenges
D) A person's access to resources

Question 35

In which of the following theoretical approaches to care does the social worker view problems as separate from people and proceed from the perspective that people possess the qualities and skills needed to address any challenge they face in life?

A) Ecosystems perspective
B) Social justice perspective
C) Narrative theory
D) Solution-focused approach

Question 36

A social worker who provides suggestions to assist people to reach their goals is working in the role of:

A) Counselor
B) Broker
C) Advocate
D) Case manager

Question 37

The role of the NASW Code of Ethics can best be described as:

A) A professional guide that helps the social worker make professional decisions that reflect social work values
B) A set of rigid rules that are difficult to apply in complex practice situations
C) An irrelevant and underutilized document that social workers learn about but do not use in practice
D) None of the above

Question 38

Which of the following initiatives seeks to encourage social workers to explore and develop solutions to society's most pressing social problems?

A) The NASW Code of Ethics
B) The AASWSW's Grand Challenges for Social Work
C) The Declaration for Human Rights
D) The Council on Social Work Education

Question 39

What does it mean to have a person-in-environment conceptualization of a client situation?