SOCIAL WORK EXAM II QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Social Action Groups - ANSWER-These groups aim to make change on
organizational, governmental, and community levels
Include neighbourhood safety groups, groups advocating for legislation, and
interdisciplinary groups of professionals working in the same field or area. Aimed at
facilitating social change on the organizational or community level
Examples
Neighbourhood groups that promote a safe environment
Strategize ways to improve neighbourhood
Members of the Alzheimer's Association
Group formed to lobby legislators to pass legislation requiring mandatory dementia
education for long-term care workers
Groups may consist of professionals or non-professionals
Remedial/Therapeutic Groups - ANSWER-Remedial groups—also known as therapy
groups or treatment groups or process groups—aim to help members enhance their
social functioning
The role for the social worker in a remedial group is typically as a leader or facilitator
Mutual Aide/Recipocal Groups - ANSWER-Remedial groups—also known as
therapy groups or treatment groups or process groups—aim to help members
enhance their social functioning
The role for the social worker in a remedial group is typically as a leader or facilitator
What makes therapeutic groups different from other types of groups? - ANSWER--
aim to help members enhance their social functioning
-Therapeutic groups often arise when a professional identifies several individuals
within the agency's client population that share a common issue
Example of therapeutic focused group - ANSWER-Persons hospitalized with mental
illness
Survivors of childhood incest
4 phases of the planned change model - ANSWER-Engagement: group purpose,
rules, norms, boundaries & creating safe environment
Assessment: monitoring group progress
Intervention: establishing goals, documenting group agenda, and managing conflict
Evaluation: reviewing goals, feedback, and obtaining info on success of intervention
, Focus of Macro Practice - ANSWER-promotes changes in practices, policies, and
legislation
social workers have worked for change at the organizational, community, national,
and societal levels throughout the history of the profession
Skills for Macro Level Practice - ANSWER-Brokering: building collaborations,
coalitions, networks, and partnerships
Enabling: organizing and coordinating the efforts of individuals and groups
committed to a common issue or concern
Advocating: articulating the needs of a group to decision makers
Mobilizing: Fundraising, establishing programs, evaluating outcomes
Mediating: aiding opposing groups in establishing a common ground
Administration: overseeing program development, operations, budgets, and
personnel
Areas of social work practice with organizations and communities - ANSWER-
Geographic-community organizing
Functional-community organizing
Community development
Program development
Social planning
Coalition building
Political and social action
Movement for progressive change
Types of Community Organizing - ANSWER-Geographic community organizing aims
to improve the economic and social quality of life in a specific neighborhood or other
geographic locale
Community development involves helping help communities enhance and strengthen
their cohesion, capability, and competence
Functional community organizing focuses on a particular disempowered segment of
the population
Best explanation of low salaries for social workers - ANSWER-Median annual
salaries ranged from the mid-$30,000s to mid-$50,000s
Several factors impact earning potential, including gender, workload, employment
sector, years of experience, licensure status, and geographic location
Most significant factor is profession is comprised mostly by women and women earn
85% of men for same job with same education
AND ANSWERS
Social Action Groups - ANSWER-These groups aim to make change on
organizational, governmental, and community levels
Include neighbourhood safety groups, groups advocating for legislation, and
interdisciplinary groups of professionals working in the same field or area. Aimed at
facilitating social change on the organizational or community level
Examples
Neighbourhood groups that promote a safe environment
Strategize ways to improve neighbourhood
Members of the Alzheimer's Association
Group formed to lobby legislators to pass legislation requiring mandatory dementia
education for long-term care workers
Groups may consist of professionals or non-professionals
Remedial/Therapeutic Groups - ANSWER-Remedial groups—also known as therapy
groups or treatment groups or process groups—aim to help members enhance their
social functioning
The role for the social worker in a remedial group is typically as a leader or facilitator
Mutual Aide/Recipocal Groups - ANSWER-Remedial groups—also known as
therapy groups or treatment groups or process groups—aim to help members
enhance their social functioning
The role for the social worker in a remedial group is typically as a leader or facilitator
What makes therapeutic groups different from other types of groups? - ANSWER--
aim to help members enhance their social functioning
-Therapeutic groups often arise when a professional identifies several individuals
within the agency's client population that share a common issue
Example of therapeutic focused group - ANSWER-Persons hospitalized with mental
illness
Survivors of childhood incest
4 phases of the planned change model - ANSWER-Engagement: group purpose,
rules, norms, boundaries & creating safe environment
Assessment: monitoring group progress
Intervention: establishing goals, documenting group agenda, and managing conflict
Evaluation: reviewing goals, feedback, and obtaining info on success of intervention
, Focus of Macro Practice - ANSWER-promotes changes in practices, policies, and
legislation
social workers have worked for change at the organizational, community, national,
and societal levels throughout the history of the profession
Skills for Macro Level Practice - ANSWER-Brokering: building collaborations,
coalitions, networks, and partnerships
Enabling: organizing and coordinating the efforts of individuals and groups
committed to a common issue or concern
Advocating: articulating the needs of a group to decision makers
Mobilizing: Fundraising, establishing programs, evaluating outcomes
Mediating: aiding opposing groups in establishing a common ground
Administration: overseeing program development, operations, budgets, and
personnel
Areas of social work practice with organizations and communities - ANSWER-
Geographic-community organizing
Functional-community organizing
Community development
Program development
Social planning
Coalition building
Political and social action
Movement for progressive change
Types of Community Organizing - ANSWER-Geographic community organizing aims
to improve the economic and social quality of life in a specific neighborhood or other
geographic locale
Community development involves helping help communities enhance and strengthen
their cohesion, capability, and competence
Functional community organizing focuses on a particular disempowered segment of
the population
Best explanation of low salaries for social workers - ANSWER-Median annual
salaries ranged from the mid-$30,000s to mid-$50,000s
Several factors impact earning potential, including gender, workload, employment
sector, years of experience, licensure status, and geographic location
Most significant factor is profession is comprised mostly by women and women earn
85% of men for same job with same education
