HSSJ Test 2

Question 1

Two types of research

Answer 1

Secondary: data/information currently exists and was collected, analyzed, and reported by someone else

Primary: data/information that YOU collect, analyze, and report

Question 2

Quantitative Data

Answer 2

Quantitative data (numbers, counting) is a great way of conveying magnitude and discovering what may be a social problem, who may be affected, and were they may reside

Question 3

Early foundations of advocacy

Answer 3

early history: people with mental illness had ‘evil spirits’

200 B.C.: hippocrates defined mental illness

1500’s A.D.: St. Thomas and St. Francis are considered “first human service professionals”

1500-1600’s: England protects those who are impaired by their mental health

1601: First Elizabethan Poor Laws (AKA the foundation for future human services)

Question 4

Human services in colonial america

Answer 4

poor relief is defined: public responsibility, legal residency, family responsibilities, and apprenticed children

almshouses are established

Question 5

19th century reforms

Answer 5

1813: practice of probation begins

1810s: dr. rush influences mental health care

1840s: Dorothea dix teaches people in prison

1854: care of mentally ill becomes state responsibility

Question 6

19th century movements

Answer 6

organized charity movements: eliminating fraud/duplication of services provided and The United Way, settlement house movement -> social engineering and Chicago’s Hull House

Question 7

20th Century

Answer 7

early: social workers seen as a profession, case management seen as a new practice, mucrackers exam poverty, Clifford Beers’ reform efforts

mid: national mental health act of 1946, mental health study act of 1955, community mental health centers act of 1963, deinstitutionalization

Question 8

Six principles of ethical consideration

Answer 8

autonomy, non maleficence (do no harm), beneficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity

Question 9

Code of ethics

Answer 9

guidelines for professional behavior, how we distinguish our professional identity, protects service users welfare and well-being, benchmark for enforcement of standards, and only binds an organizations’ members or professional group

Question 10

Ethical principles

Answer 10

competence (academic/practical training, supervised experience), responsibility (protect services users, support your profession, promote justice), and confidentiality (privileged communication, relative confidentiality, concerns/technology)

Question 11

Ethical decision making

Answer 11

identifying the problem, reviewing ethical standards, consulting with colleagues and experts, identify and explore options, choose a course of action, evaluate your decision

Question 12

Cultural terminology

Answer 12

collectivist, individualist, multi-cultural, cultural pluralism (maintains separateness, respects the laws of host culture), worldview (how we see and interpret the world around us)

Question 13

Assimilation

Answer 13

two-way process, dominant and non dominant culture changes

Question 14

Acculturation

Answer 14

non-dominant culture changes, may retain cultural markers