Test 4

Question 1

Why was Social Security developed?

Answer 1

To address the issue of poverty during old age

Question 2

Which President created the Social Security Act?

Answer 2

Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1935

Question 3

What is social insurance?

Answer 3

Protect self or family from risk; preventative

Question 4

What is Public Assistance?

Answer 4

Assist once adverse event or circumstances have happened

Question 5

Social Security Old Age

Answer 5

Benefits to those 65 and over.

Payments began in 1942

Question 6

Who did SSI cover originally?

Answer 6

65 and older.
Aid to dependent children
Aid to the blind

Question 7

What happened with SSI in 1956?

Answer 7

Benefits extended to workers with permanent disability age 50 and over

Question 8

What did Bush do?

Answer 8

Proposal to privatize

Efforts to promote privatization among congress and general public failed.

Question 9

What happened in 2008?

Answer 9

Proposals for reform were part of the 2008 presidential campaign; no action taken as of yet.
Potential areas for reform:
Increase cap on income tax for those earning over $106,600.
Reforming pension systems

Question 10

Mental health in young adults and children

Answer 10

Estimates are that 26.2% of those 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year

Estimates are that 13-20% of children had a mental disorder in any given year.

Question 11

Responses to substance abuse

Answer 11

Criminalization
Moral crusade
Prohibition

Question 12

What was the governments two pronged approach in the 1960’s?

Answer 12

Reduce supply via law enforcement (Trump now)

Reduce demand via prevent and treatment

Question 13

DSM-5

Answer 13

Issues with reliability and consistency in diagnostic reliability

Autism and vaccination: research discredited and no current linkages.

Use of technology to help with mental health treatment and symptoms

Question 14

Health policy: History. (Presidents)

Answer 14

Nixon: National insurance plan proposed, not in place before Watergate swept him from office

Clinton attempted reform

Bush: Medicare Modernization Act added prescription drug coverage

Mitt Romney & Obama: Affordable Care Act

Question 15

Mitt Romney

Answer 15

Affordable Care Act was modeled on the Massachusetts policy developed by Mitt.
Pharmaceutical industry and Insurance industry support
Not a single republican vote for the bill

Question 16

Latent goals on child welfare

Answer 16

Save money in the child welfare system

Question 17

Child welfare

Answer 17

Is about protecting and promoting the wellbeing of children, supporting families, addressing social conditions that have a negative impact on children, and ensuring the emotional safety of children

CPS

Homebuilders: method of providing services to families to build relationships between families and systems of support (family preservation)

Question 18

The Child Rescue Movement

Answer 18

1873: Mary Ellen Wilson and missing involvement of law enforcement.
Involvement of social work profession with child welfare.
C. Carl Carlstens trained in social work began the concept of child protection.
Precursor to the Child Welfare League of America.

Question 19

Foster Care

Answer 19

Once a solution to providing a safe environment for abused, neglected and dependent children
Became a problem because there was no work to reunify, targeting one religious group, failed placements.

Child’s own home is best. Primary goal should be reunification.

Adoption is the goal of reunification is not possible

Question 20

Problems with foster care

Answer 20

Children languishing in the system

Harmful to child development

Aging out of the system without returning home can lead to serious consequences

Question 21

Family preservation has 4 manifest goals

Answer 21

To prevent placement of children in families of crisis
To protect children and prevent subsequent child maltreatment
To improve family functioning
To prevent child abuse and neglect

Question 22

1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act/Child Abuse Prevention Act

Answer 22

A shift away from family preservation and toward child-centered policy
Requires that agencies demonstrate that they have made all reasonable efforts to preserve a family before parental rights are terminated

Question 23

Foster care in WV

Answer 23

Basic rate: $19.73 per day
DHHR foster he’s receive $600 per month
Supplemental payments if specialized foster family - based on child’s needs.

Question 24

Child welfare and family preservation economic considerations

Answer 24

Economic considerations are the driving force behind the rapid growth and support of family preservation

Question 25

Current proposals for policy reform in family preservation

Answer 25

A steady movement toward Kinship Care
Supporting families who participate in Kinship car so that they can become licensed and paid as foster parents
Support the concept of financial assistance for those providing Kinship care so that they may adopt the child in their care