For Final - Social Policy and Social Work Practice

Question 1

Why study social policy - to understand…
1- how policy ? clients
2- how ?? work in funding for social programs
3- who does / doesn’t ? from a specific policy
4- why some policies stay ? while others are ??
5- To understand the ?? in which we live and work (both macro-level policy and “the person in environment

Answer 1

1- affects
2- monetary systems
3- benefit
4- unchanged WHILE changed or removed
5- social environment

Question 2

What is the term for - using social work skills to propose and change policies to achieve the goal of social and economic justice.

Answer 2

Policy practice

Question 3

t/f - Policy Practice is not an integral element of social work practice in all settings

Answer 3

false - it’s important at the local, provincial, and national levels, as well as within micro, mezzo, and macro levels of intervention.

Question 4

Including policy practice in every day social work practice is an effective and powerful mechanism - to do what?

Answer 4

to enhance the goals of social work.

Question 5

The Person in Their Social Context (Person-in-Environment Theory)

T/F - Individuals were blamed for their issues, e.g. in poverty
before the mid 20th century (residual model), based on the assumption that the social systems were WHAT?

For that reason, the WHAT for individuals were emphasized as major solutions to the problems.

Answer 5

perfect (so government intervention should be limited).

therapies

Question 6

The Person in Their Social Context (Person-in-Environment Theory)

Since the mid of 20th century, it has been realized that it is important to look WHAT?

Answer 6

look at the systems with which individuals experience the problems.

Question 7

The Person in Their Social Context (Person-in-Environment Theory)

t/f - Since the mid of 20th century social work shifted their attention to human behaviours and social environment?

Answer 7

true

Question 8

In using the person-in-environment theory, social workers do WHAT?

Answer 8

situate the person within a social context. (some people have a problem and we may include the condition of where the person grew up, social connections, ect.)

Question 9

Using person-in-environment perspective, social workers recognize that people interact with WHAT

Answer 9

an environment that may provide both opportunities and barriers to their goals.

Question 10

The Person in Their Social Context (Person-in-Environment Theory) - This environment (anything related to the individual) include interactions with

1- ?, especially parents who first provides basic needs as children are growing and developing
2- ??, support families and enhance their abilities to carry out their nurturing, educating, and socializing functions.
3- ?? of friends and extended family members may provide both material and psychological support of friendship, childcare.
4- ? watch programs for crime prevention, clubs, and social activities to meet a variety of needs.
5- ?? , social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, Twitter and other online clubs.
6- ? provide a wide variety of social, educational, and economic supports for families.
7- ??, plays the major role, affect the life of individual through taxation and social and programs.

Answer 10

1- families
2- external to families
3- informal networks
4- neighbourhoods
5- online chat rooms
6- Cities
7- national systems

Question 11

Theories used in social practice:

Mills’ (1959) saw private troubles and public issues, and suggested that we should know that many people’s trouble cannot be solved HOW and instead WHAT must be understood?

Answer 11

merely as individuals’ troubles.

Instead, individuals’ problems must be understood in terms of public issues.

Question 12

Theories used in social practice:

t/f - Some social work approaches focus on both the personal and the social context when framing ideas about the new profession

Answer 12

true

Question 13

Theories used in social practice:

Be aware of the issue of “units of analysis” - Theory developed based on the behaviors of macro-level can not WHAT?

Answer 13

be directly applied on the level for individuals

Question 14

Theories used in social practice:

t/f - Feminist theory does not hold a similar view of private troubles and public issues.

Answer 14

false - they do hold this view too

Question 15

Theories used in social practice:

Feminist theory focuses on WHAT by examining women’s social roles, experience, interests and politics in a variety of fields.

Answer 15

the nature of gender inequality

*Feminist theory is frequently used by social workers.

Question 16

Theories used in social practice:

t/f - These theoretical perspectives (i.e. Feminist theory) emphasis that policy is not simply a top-down process implemented by social workers.

Answer 16

true

Question 17

t/f - Individual in the social context is systems theory

Answer 17

true

Question 18

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

The ideas of systems theory have been developed in diverse areas:
*first in 1940s in ? (Bertalanffy)
*then in ? (Parsons)
*?(H. Odum & E. Odum).

Answer 18

1- biology
2- sociology
3- ecology

Question 19

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

It is a specification of systems thinking, a holistic approach (whole system) against reductionism (looks at the individual parts) - what does that mean?

Answer 19

*Instead of reducing an entity, such as a body, to the elements (cells), system theory focus on the relationships among the parts connected to a whole.

Question 20

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

*The concepts of systems include: a s? (a cell, a person, or a community) and its b?, input and output, p?, state, h?, g? (of the system) and i? (transfers from different parts).

Answer 20

system
boundary
process
hierarchy
goals
information

Question 21

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

*A central topic of the systems theory is WHAT, like a cell which can take water into e.g., system’s self-correcting through feedback - Information comes in and how the system makes corrections or changes

Answer 21

self-regulating systems

Question 22

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

**Strengthen one part of the system or subsystem will cause what?

This provides a chance for intervention. (Imagine a case that social work intervention can change the whole situation of a client by changing a habit the of client.)
Changing a small element may change big systems

Answer 22

impact the whole system.

*This provides a chance for intervention. (Imagine a case that social work intervention can change the whole situation of a client by changing a habit the of client.)

*Changing a small element may change big systems

Question 23

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

t/f - Since 1960s, social workers began to use and promote systems theory and ecological theory, and systems theory is adopted in generalist practice of social work.

Answer 23

true

Question 24

WHAT theory provides the foundation for person-in-environment perspective

Answer 24

Systems theory

Question 25

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

*These theories focus on relationship between WHAT

Answer 25

the individual & their social context.

Question 26

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

*Social worker acts as a bridge between the WHAT

Answer 26

individual and the environment.

*Help people cope and develop within their existing social context.

Question 27

Practice Models - Systems and Ecological Approaches:

*Although social workers are tasked to create balance between person & environment, social work practice with WHAT are emphasized.

Answer 27

individuals & families

Question 28

Which theory focuses on macro social structures and their relationship to oppression of individuals and groups. This theory pays attention to race, class and gender.

Answer 28

*Critical theory

Question 29

Social workers using this Critical theory approach help clients to recognize what 2 things

Answer 29

the structural causes of their problems

and the social changes that need to occur in social structures.

Question 30

Which theory focuses more on the consciousness raising and joining forces to critique structural power than on therapeutic processes.

Answer 30

*Critical theory

Question 31

Community Development Models:

Community work could involve

1) ? communities share common interests (culture and language);

2) helping communities to become more ?;

3) Participating in ??;

4) taking social ?.

Answer 31

1- geographical
2- self-sufficient
3- social planning
4-action

Question 32

Policy & Practice:

Policy shapes the tasks and attention of direct service to individuals and families:

1) policy determines major ??, policy is shifting away from universal & accessible social welfare services to a more scaled back, fiscally reduced & privatized service delivery (in the last 20 years).

2) policy determines the ??, policies grant services based on marital status, physical or mental abilities, age, immigration status etc.

3) policy may ?? service options

4) policy can determine the ?? of service.

Answer 32

1- goals of service
2- characteristics of the clientele
3- specify & restrict
4- theoretical or ideological focus

Question 33

Skills required for policy practice:

1) ? to collect data, identify policy options and merits of these options & draft proposals

2) ? to gain and use power, study the feasibility, find resources and propose political strategies

3) ? to generate contacts and build networks

4) ? to identify and rank moral and ethical issues in proposed strategies

Answer 33

1- Analytical skills
2- Political skills
3- Interactional skills
4- Value clarification skills

The requirement is a bit too high generally, as not everyone will have those skills.