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The disease model |
Is concerned with individual illness and dysfunction |
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Why do social workers tend to use the term client vs patient |
To demedicalize the client-worker relationship |
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A common assessment tool based on the medical model is |
DSM-5 |
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The Freudian conflict in which boys fall in love with their mothers is called |
Oedipus complex |
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Rewarding a child after they have completed a household chore is an example of |
Positive reinforcement |
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A comprehensive approach to describing human behavior is |
Person-in-environment |
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A macro system that impacts Juan's family is |
The economy |
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Assessing Juan's situation from a psychological perspective would involve |
Assessing Juan's emotional and cognitive functioning |
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Systems are always striving to |
Maintain the status quo |
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The ecosystems approach |
Combines two theories to create a more comprehensive way to approach work with clients |
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Policies, programs, andprocedures that systematically benefit members of certain racial groups morethan others are examples of: |
Institutional racism |
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Environmental racism is |
institutional and structural policies and practices that differentially impact the health and living conditions of racial and ethnic groups |
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Which theory of prejudice is characterized byrigidity, inflexibility, and conformity? |
Authoritarianism |
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Microassaults are |
Name-calling, acts of violence, avoidant behaviors, telling or laughing at jokes, or discriminatory practices meant to harm those in the target group |
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Which of the following is a basic premise of social justice? |
All humans have the right to live fulfilling lives, afforded the access to appropriate resources, able to live free from persecution |
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Which theory of prejudice asserts people are socialized to think and behave in certain ways? |
Social learning theory |
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Settlement houses did what? |
Provide organized programs that addressed nutrition, literacy, day care, and other needs |
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Organizing community members and creating opportunities for change through activism describes which model of community practice? |
Locality development model |
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Which model of community practice sees social workers as experts who take the lead in developing change strategies? |
Social planning model |
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For social workers, what is promoting social justice? |
Local and cooperative economic development and regulated and deprivatized public and other services |
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Arguing that unequal distribution of resources and access to opportunities, as well as inequality that is being maintained by societal values keeps families like Aisha's in poverty is party of which theory? |
Feminism |
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Those parts of society whose purposes are readily discernible are? |
Manifest functions |
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Which theory asserts that we construct our reality based on our experiences |
Social constructionism |
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Which strength of feminism has also been criticized as perhaps perpetuating inequality? |
Highlights their special circumstances, thereby making them separate from men and suggesting that they require special treatment |
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Culture is made up of which of the following? |
Norms, values, customs, symbols, thoughts, traditions, politics, religions, languages, philosophies, and material objects |
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Which word is defined as one's dominant ideas about what is correct and how things should be |
Ideology |
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We all attach meaning to our communications with others within the context in which the interaction takes place. This describes? |
Symbolic Interaction Theory |
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Which theory attempts to explain how various aspects of a society work together to maintain stability? |
Functionalist theory |
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Critical practice theory suggests when working with a client who has spent several years in foster care and is currently struggling in her new adoptive home, the social worker should? |
Engage client in an egalitarian relationship to discuss her experiences, her views on her current situation in her adoptive family, and her ideas about how she wants things to change |
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What theory maintains that struggle among classes is inevitable? |
Conflict theory |
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In Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, identity vs. identity confusion occurs with what age group? |
Adolescence |
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Which of the following is a limitation of Piaget's theory of cognitive development? |
Stops in adolescence, observed his own children, focused on what is normal/average, underestimates the variations in dev., doesn't pay enough attention to sociocultural factors, underestimated children's abilities |
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Which is a common defense mechanism in which individuals blame others for their own shortcomings and mistakes? |
Projection |
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Bandura's social learning theory suggests that? |
People are active agents in their learning |
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The focus on the meaning of life and people's views on existence is a tenet of? |
Existentialism |
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Which of the following tools are pictograms that use symbols to denote key events, characteristics, relationships, health and mental health issues, and communication patterns? |
Genograms |
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Assessing Juan's situation from a biological perspective would involve? |
Physical health and functioning, including nutrition and general health habits and maybe referral for a physical |
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The biopsychosocial approach to individuals is? |
Breaking down human behavior into several components that involve a person's biological, psychological, and social functioning |
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The micro level refers to |
Facets of the individual such as biological, psychological, developmental, spiritual, emotional, cognitive, recreational, and finacial aspectes of personality and functioning considered vital to a person's well-being |
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Assessing Juan's situation from a psychological perspective would involve? |
Assessing his emotional and cognitive development |
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Why is it important for social workers to have a strong liberal arts education? |
To be an effective social worker you need a broad knowledge base that incorporates information on theories of human behavior, basic human development, and social issues that affect people in various stages of life |
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Definition of human behavior in the social environment |
How individuals interact both with other people and with their environment, as well as understanding how individuals are affected by these interactions |
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Behave in a trustworthy manner refers to which social work value? |
Integrity |
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Help people in need and address social conditions and concerns refers to which social work value |
Service |
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When evaluation research, is the information peer reviewed refers to? |
An expert on the topic reading the article and confirming it's worth |
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The tendency to impose our own values, inclinations, expectations, and experiences onto an event to help make sense of it derives from? |
Bias and value judgments |
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The approach of unknowing means |
People's problems and behaviors are inherently unpredictable and the contexts in which people live are complex and diverse |
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Evidence-based practice is a movement among social workers that? |
Has social workers documenting that their interventions are effective |
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Given the complexity of individuals' lives and the multifaceted nature of the problems that clients experience, so workers need knowledge in which area? |
Human behavior in the social environment |