SWK 170 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The importance of SWK (300)
Empowerment practices (302&303) - Answers - Helps to enhance coping skills, through
consciousness raising, education, and support. Empowerment with adults should
include three basic strategies, assisting older adults, individually and collectively to
define their own needs: promoting conscious awareness of social and economic justice;
and encouraging political action.
Mental Health challenges (308) - Answers - Increase with age because the aging
process is inevitably accompanied by personal losses.
Elder abuse and self neglect (315) - Answers - -women are abused at a higher rate than
men and that abuse increases with age
-may occur in several ways such as physical maltreatment, sexual abuse, verbal or
emotional abuse, etc
SSI (319) - Answers - Supplemental Security Income is another federal entitlement
program that was initiated in 1972 as an amendment to the Social Security Act f 1935.
-This program was designed to reduce the stigma of public assistance for three
categories of poor people: older adults, persons who are blind, and persons who have
other disabilities.
The continuum of care (324) - Answers - Most older adults want to maintain
independence as long as possible, recognition of this preference has led to the concept
of the continuum of care, this allows whatever to be done in order to allow an older
person remain in his or her own home setting as long as possible.
What was the SW core values in the case study (338) - Answers -
Components of the criminal justice system (parol vs probation and misdemeanor vs
felony) (341-343) - Answers - -misdemeanor is a relatively minor offense but certainly
more serious than a misdeed: it is punishable by fines, probation, or a relatively brief jail
or prison sentence.
-a felony is a serious crime such as murder, rape, and armed burglary. a felony often
results in a prison sentence of one or more years, or possibly the death penalty.
-probation is a sentence, following conviction for a crime, in which the offender is
ordered to undergo supervision for a prescribed period of time instead of serving time in
prison
-parole is when a person has served a portion of his or her sentence in prison and then
receives an early release to complete the sentence in the community under supervision
The importance of SWK (300)
Empowerment practices (302&303) - Answers - Helps to enhance coping skills, through
consciousness raising, education, and support. Empowerment with adults should
include three basic strategies, assisting older adults, individually and collectively to
define their own needs: promoting conscious awareness of social and economic justice;
and encouraging political action.
Mental Health challenges (308) - Answers - Increase with age because the aging
process is inevitably accompanied by personal losses.
Elder abuse and self neglect (315) - Answers - -women are abused at a higher rate than
men and that abuse increases with age
-may occur in several ways such as physical maltreatment, sexual abuse, verbal or
emotional abuse, etc
SSI (319) - Answers - Supplemental Security Income is another federal entitlement
program that was initiated in 1972 as an amendment to the Social Security Act f 1935.
-This program was designed to reduce the stigma of public assistance for three
categories of poor people: older adults, persons who are blind, and persons who have
other disabilities.
The continuum of care (324) - Answers - Most older adults want to maintain
independence as long as possible, recognition of this preference has led to the concept
of the continuum of care, this allows whatever to be done in order to allow an older
person remain in his or her own home setting as long as possible.
What was the SW core values in the case study (338) - Answers -
Components of the criminal justice system (parol vs probation and misdemeanor vs
felony) (341-343) - Answers - -misdemeanor is a relatively minor offense but certainly
more serious than a misdeed: it is punishable by fines, probation, or a relatively brief jail
or prison sentence.
-a felony is a serious crime such as murder, rape, and armed burglary. a felony often
results in a prison sentence of one or more years, or possibly the death penalty.
-probation is a sentence, following conviction for a crime, in which the offender is
ordered to undergo supervision for a prescribed period of time instead of serving time in
prison
-parole is when a person has served a portion of his or her sentence in prison and then
receives an early release to complete the sentence in the community under supervision
