Practicing Social Work II
True or False
1. Although it is rare, periodically , social workers in many fields
are assaulted or even murdered by dissatisfied or disturbed clients or client family members.
True | False
2. Although social workers clearly are unable to provide medical or nursing care to people who are ill, they are often involved in dealing with the social problems arising from illness and disease.
True | False
3. There are jobs for full time social work researchers, who study social problems and social solutions to those problems.
True | False
4. One of the main programs in which social workers work in public social services is child support enforcement--finding absent parents and making them pay child support for their children who are receiving public assistance. True | False
5. The United Way is an agency that provides help to mothers with dependent children.
True | False
6. One of the main programs in which social workers are employed in public social services is child support enforcement--finding absent parents and requiring them to pay child support for their children who are receiving public assistance.
True | False
7. Assessing or diagnosing patients is the same as making
judgements about them.
True | False
8. Social workers need not understand the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatry Association because it is psychiatrists who make diagnoses, not social workers.
True | False
9. Social workers only serve people with personal or social problems.
True | False
10. Social workers who serve in the health field may work in hospitals, public health clinics, or in preventive public health programs as well as other health fields.
True | False
11. Hospice programs provide help to people who are terminally ill.
True | False
12. In hospital social work, the primary focus of the social worker is on helping people recover while they are hospitalized.
True | False
13. The first step when one encounters verified child abuse is to remove the child from the home and place the child in a temporary shelter.
True | False
14. Social workers primarily work alone or with other social workers.
True | False
15. Since many social work tasks are performed by volunteers, it is useful to have ability in supervising and training volunteers.
True | False
16. Some social work careers involve working as managers of associations of social workers and other professional or special interest groups.
True | False
17. The Peace Corps often provides interesting and challenging opportunities for social workers.
True | False
18. Social workers and psychologists sometimes perform very similar kinds of work.
True | False
19. Settlement houses provide a place for poor people to live.
True | False
20. Helping people on the job with their personal and family problems is a function of Employee Assistance Programs.
True | False
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