[OB] Chapter 5: The Knowledge Foundation of Social Work

Question 1

The three substantive knowledge in social work:

Answer 1

1. Social Welfare Policy and Services;
2. Human Behavior and Social Environment; and
3. Social Work Practice

Question 2

This social work knowledge is concerned with the organization, administration, and operation of social welfare policies and programs…

Answer 2

Social Welfare Policy and Services;

Question 3

This social work knowledge is concerned with the material necessary for understanding the client in his problem situation, the dynamics of individual and group behavior, and of group and community processes which affect or infulence the individual, the group and the community.

Answer 3

Human Behavior and Social Environment

Question 4

This social work knowledge is concerned with content about normal and deviant behavior.

Answer 4

Human Behavior and Social Environment

Question 5

This social work knowledge is concerned with the actual process by which the worker helps the client. The methods and techniques in helping, the resources necessary for helping, as well as the appropriate attitudes that facilitate the helping process.

Answer 5

Social Work Practice

Question 6

It is a biopsychosocial component. It includes the individual’s state of health and nutrition. genetics and natural physical endowments at birth, normal biological growth and development, as well as any deviation from normal functioning including illnesses and physical disabilities.

Answer 6

biological components

Question 7

It is a biopsychosocial component. It is concerned with the individual’s personality, comprising what is commonly termed as “inner states”.

Answer 7

psychological component

Question 8

These are the three aspects of the psychological component.

One is perceptual or intellectual; the other is feelings; and last is striving, or the tendency to do actively or purposefully.

Answer 8

1. Cognitive;
2. Emotional; and
3. Conative

Question 9

It is a biopsychosocial component. It includes elements namely, societal, institutional, status, normative, and interactive elements.

Answer 9

social component

Question 10

_________ refers to the knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, etc. that constitute the way of life of a people or society.

Answer 10

Culture

Question 11

The two aspects of physical environment.

Answer 11

1. Natural environment; and
2. Constructed environment.

Question 12

The axulliary methods of social work:

Answer 12

1. social welfare administration;
2. social action; and
3. social research