Chapter 3 Flashcards
The ecological/systems perspective focuses on the
risks and opportunities at all levels of the environment that impact the client
A way of clearly and logically organizing a set of facts or ideas describes a:
theory
The concept of synergy means:
the combined energy from smaller parts which is greater than the total if those parts functioned separately
What could be a meso-level factor that affects the individual functioning of a child?
relationship between home and school
The point at which one system ends and another begins is known as a
boundary
What is a true statement about equifinality
equifinality represents steady state or homeostasis
The social welfare system is the product of the interactions and interrelatedness of historical, economic, and political forces. This statement describes:
the systems/ecological framework
What is a true statement regarding the social work helping process
it has three major phases: contact phase, contract phase, and action phase
From the ecological/systems perspective, a mother’s loss of job and health insurance is an example of a risk to her child at which level of the environment?
exo level
The perspective that the role of the social worker is to help clients achieve self-identified goals best describes the:
strengths perspective of social work
A social worker who facilitates a group of students with disabilities to advocate for specially-fitted transit buses on campus best exemplifies which social work concept:
empowerment
Generalist social work practitioners are those who:
are trained to intervene with client systems at the individual, family, group, organizational, or community level using the stages of the helping process
When one is considering the impact of societal norms on an individual’s life, he or she is addressing which level of the ecological/systems framework
macro level
Over time, closed systems tend to lose their ability to function and can eventually stagnate and die. In systems theory this phenomenon is known as:
entropy
The relationship between a person’s needs, rights, goals, and capacities and the physical and social environment in which the person lives is referred to as:
person-environment fit
