Practicing Social Work I
True or False

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1. Most social work jobs in mental health services are located in hospitals.

FALSE


Although several decades ago people with mental illness were primarily cared for in public mental hospitals, most care is now provided through community agencies such as community mental health centers. Only a minority of psychiatric social workers are employed in hospitals.




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2.




2. Social workers assist many people who are unemployed or who are incapable of holding jobs. However, they also work closely with many employed people.

TRUE


One of the growing fields of social work is in employee assistance programs, which provide social services to employees where they work and to families of employees. EAP employment includes many kinds of services including counseling, drug and alcohol treatment, and helping people find help in other agencies through "case management."




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3.




3. Psychiatric social workers work closely with the medical specialization of psychiatry.

TRUE


Psychiatric social workers are heavily involved with psychiatrists, and deal with the social aspects of psychiatric care, often under the direction of psychiatrists.




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4.




4. Unlike psychologists, social workers rarely become involved directly in counseling patients who are experiencing mental illness.

FALSE


Social workers are heavily involved in counseling people with mental illnesses. In fact, much of the counseling in mental health programs is provided by professionally educated social workers.




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5.




5. For many social workers, the most important responsibility is helping people help themselves.

TRUE


Self-help efforts are as old as social work. Self-help was the basic philosophy of the early settlement houses and remains important in groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous.




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6.




6. Because it is one of the largest and fastest-growing of all professions, social work is well known to most Americans.

FALSE


Despite its size and growth pattern, social work is not very well known or understood in the United States. Many social workers first learn about the profession after they have finished bachelor's degrees.




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7.




7. Social workers often work closely with physicians and other health care providers.

TRUE


Many social work jobs are for "medical social workers" who help clients with some of the social and environmental issues they face, such as paying for the cost of their care. arranging for housing after hospital discharge, and dealing with their families. The work is often done in conjunction with physicians and other health care providers.




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8.




8. Social welfare is a profession within the general field of social work.

FALSE


Social welfare is the larger system of social services and social assistance. Social work is one of the primary professions whose practitioners implement and carry out social welfare programs.




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9.




9. Social work is an uniquely American profession.

FALSE


Social welfare and the social work profession are found in virtually every nation of the world. In some nations, the programs are more extensive than those of the U.S.




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10.




10. Some exceptional opportunities for social workers are in rural areas and small towns.

TRUE


Although most Americans live in metropolitan areas and most social workers serve in cities, many programs are located in nonmetropolitan areas. Professional advancement and challenging opportunities are available in smaller communities.




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11.




11. Learning to use a dictating machine is valuable for social workers.

TRUE


Many agencies arrange to transcribe reports from dictated social worker notes. Skill in dictating is essential for many social work jobs.




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12.




12. Many social workers are members of unions and unions are an important force in many social work agencies.

TRUE


Employee asscciations and unions are a basic element of social work employment in many agencies.




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13.




13. There are few jobs for fund raisers in social work programs.

FALSE


One of the most employable of all social work specializations is fund raising and fund development. People who are interested in that work and capable of carrying it out are always in demand and are often better paid than people in other fields.




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14.




14. Social workers in rural communities need to be generalists.

TRUE


Because there are so few social workers in many small and rural communities, social workers need to know a great deal about the whole range of programs and services.




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15.




15. Some social workers are engaged in private or independent practice.

TRUE


A small but popular kind of work for social workers is private practice, which, in many states, requires a higher level of license than does agency practice.




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16.




16. Working with victims of domestic violence is a growing area of social work practice.

TRUE


Domestic violence services and programs occupy the careers of growing numbers of social workers.




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17.




17. One of the most important and largest social work services is protective service for children who are abused or neglected.

TRUE


Child protective services is one of the largest and oldest form of social work service.




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18. Working with the board of directors is a crucial task for many social workers, especially those involved in agency administration.

TRUE


Many organizations are governed by boards of directors. Learning to work with them is the basic task of social work managers in all kinds of agencies.




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19.




19. The modern emphasis in all services to people with conditions such as mental illness and severe physical illnesses is to provide care in the community, rather than in institutions.

TRUE


Community care for those with both physical and mental problems is the emphasis in modern social welfare and social services.




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20.




20. Those who want to counsel people with marital and family problems are better advised to study counselling and guidance than social work.

FALSE


Much of the marital and family counselling conducted in the United States is provided by social workers.




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21.




21. Social welfare is so diverse and so responsive to current conditions that it is difficult to plan services.

FALSE


Social planning is a large and influential field of social work practice. There is a great public desire for managers to carefully plan and manage social welfare programs so they provide the maximum benefit for the minimum costs.




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22. Because they are so complex, rural areas are not desirable work sites for new social work graduates.

FALSE


Many recent graduates take jobs in rural areas. They are good places for new social workers to learn the basics of profession.




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