SOCIAL WORK ESSENTIAL STUDY QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
◉ 3-9. Pearle Jensen is one of several elderly persons who has need
of community-based services in order to return to her own home
after hospitalization. If the social worker considers the person
:environment focus, intervention planning will focus on ___.
a) Pearle rather than on her environment
b) her environment rather than on Pearle
c) factors related to both Pearle and her environment
d) neither Pearle nor her environment
Answer: c
◉ 3-10. As a generalist social worker, Kari knows that ___.
a) an individual's problems require individual or micro-focused
solutions
b) the sources of both problems and solutions may be located in
larger social structures
c) the sources of both problems and solutions are rarely located in
larger social structures
d) the sources of problems, but not solutions, are located in larger
social structures
Answer: b
,◉ 3-11. In relation to intervention, the person:environment focus
___.
a) mandates a dual focus on the person and environment
b) mandates a focus on the person rather than the environment
c) mandates a focus on the environment rather than the person
d) has no relevance
Answer: a
◉ 3-12. Effective social functioning means that clients ___.
a) activate personal, interpersonal, and institutional resources to
deal with difficulties
b) are vulnerable to the onset of problems Answer
c) experience difficulties that result in their inability to cope
d) exhibit numerous behaviors resulting from personal issues
Answer: a
◉ 3-13. Which of the following persons is most likely considered "at
risk" in social functioning?
a) someone who is serving time in prison
b) a person with a disability who is underemployed
c) a family caught up in serious communication conflicts
, d) an older woman who is adjusting successfully to the death of her
partner
Answer: c or b
◉ 3-15. Which of the following is not an example of environmental
press?
a) unemployment
b) discrimination
c) environmental resources
d) architectural barriers
Answer: c
◉ 3-16. Sarina is a family counselor. Her typical day-to-day activities
most likely reflect ___.
a) microlevel intervention
b) mezzolevel intervention
c) macrolevel intervention
d) working with the profession
Answer: a
◉ 3-17. Helen Washington's direct work with the Morrison family
represents ___.
a) microlevel intervention
AND ANSWERS
◉ 3-9. Pearle Jensen is one of several elderly persons who has need
of community-based services in order to return to her own home
after hospitalization. If the social worker considers the person
:environment focus, intervention planning will focus on ___.
a) Pearle rather than on her environment
b) her environment rather than on Pearle
c) factors related to both Pearle and her environment
d) neither Pearle nor her environment
Answer: c
◉ 3-10. As a generalist social worker, Kari knows that ___.
a) an individual's problems require individual or micro-focused
solutions
b) the sources of both problems and solutions may be located in
larger social structures
c) the sources of both problems and solutions are rarely located in
larger social structures
d) the sources of problems, but not solutions, are located in larger
social structures
Answer: b
,◉ 3-11. In relation to intervention, the person:environment focus
___.
a) mandates a dual focus on the person and environment
b) mandates a focus on the person rather than the environment
c) mandates a focus on the environment rather than the person
d) has no relevance
Answer: a
◉ 3-12. Effective social functioning means that clients ___.
a) activate personal, interpersonal, and institutional resources to
deal with difficulties
b) are vulnerable to the onset of problems Answer
c) experience difficulties that result in their inability to cope
d) exhibit numerous behaviors resulting from personal issues
Answer: a
◉ 3-13. Which of the following persons is most likely considered "at
risk" in social functioning?
a) someone who is serving time in prison
b) a person with a disability who is underemployed
c) a family caught up in serious communication conflicts
, d) an older woman who is adjusting successfully to the death of her
partner
Answer: c or b
◉ 3-15. Which of the following is not an example of environmental
press?
a) unemployment
b) discrimination
c) environmental resources
d) architectural barriers
Answer: c
◉ 3-16. Sarina is a family counselor. Her typical day-to-day activities
most likely reflect ___.
a) microlevel intervention
b) mezzolevel intervention
c) macrolevel intervention
d) working with the profession
Answer: a
◉ 3-17. Helen Washington's direct work with the Morrison family
represents ___.
a) microlevel intervention
