SOWK 7310 questions with verified
answers
Generalist Practice - correct answer ✔✔-Common knowledge base for all social workers
-Foundation courses prepare students for generalist practice
-Practitioners are prepared to:
--View problems holistically
--Plan interventions aimed at multiple levels of systems related to client concerns
Direct Practice - correct answer ✔✔-The form of social work practice that involves direct client
contact, usually face-to-face, such as casework.
-Interpersonal skill set - applied at micro, mezzo, and macro levels
-"Clinical" social work
-State licensure requirements vary
Direct social work practice components - correct answer ✔✔-hospital and health services
-mental health services
-disability services
-chemical and substance abuse services
-child, youth, and family services
-child welfare
-school social work
-work with aging clients
-work with immigrants
-housing or financial services
,Micro level practice - correct answer ✔✔-includes individuals, couples, and families.
-designated as direct practice bc practitioners deliver services directly to clients in face-to-face
situations.
-not limited to face-to-face contact
Mezzo-level practice - correct answer ✔✔-interface where the individual and those most
immediate and important to him/her meet.
-intervention is designed to change the systems that directly affect clients, such as family, peer
groups, or classroom
Macro level practice - correct answer ✔✔-involves the processes of social planning and
community organization
-ex: work with citizen groups or with private, public, or governmental organizations
Mission of Social Work - correct answer ✔✔to enhance human well-being and help meet the
basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of
people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty
Purpose of Social Work - correct answer ✔✔-restorative: restore functioning that has been
impaired
-remedial: elimination or amelioration existing social problems
-preventive: provision of services to promote social functioning
5 Roles of Direct Practitioners - correct answer ✔✔1. Direct services functions
2. System linkage functions
3. System maintenance and enhancement functions
4. research/evaluation functions
, 5. System development functions
Direct services functions - correct answer ✔✔-Individual caseworker, therapist, or counselor
-Couples and/or family therapist
-Group work service provider/therapist
-Educator/disseminator of information
System linkage functions - correct answer ✔✔-Broker
-Case manager/care coordinator
-Mediator/arbitrator
-Client advocate
System maintenance and enhancement functions - correct answer ✔✔-Organizational analyst
-Facilitator/expediter
-Team member - often Interdisciplinary
-Consultant/consultee
-Supervisor
research/evaluation functions - correct answer ✔✔-Researcher: Principal or Co-principal
Investigator
-Research team member
-Research participant
-Research Consumer
-Practice Evaluator
System development functions - correct answer ✔✔-Program developer
answers
Generalist Practice - correct answer ✔✔-Common knowledge base for all social workers
-Foundation courses prepare students for generalist practice
-Practitioners are prepared to:
--View problems holistically
--Plan interventions aimed at multiple levels of systems related to client concerns
Direct Practice - correct answer ✔✔-The form of social work practice that involves direct client
contact, usually face-to-face, such as casework.
-Interpersonal skill set - applied at micro, mezzo, and macro levels
-"Clinical" social work
-State licensure requirements vary
Direct social work practice components - correct answer ✔✔-hospital and health services
-mental health services
-disability services
-chemical and substance abuse services
-child, youth, and family services
-child welfare
-school social work
-work with aging clients
-work with immigrants
-housing or financial services
,Micro level practice - correct answer ✔✔-includes individuals, couples, and families.
-designated as direct practice bc practitioners deliver services directly to clients in face-to-face
situations.
-not limited to face-to-face contact
Mezzo-level practice - correct answer ✔✔-interface where the individual and those most
immediate and important to him/her meet.
-intervention is designed to change the systems that directly affect clients, such as family, peer
groups, or classroom
Macro level practice - correct answer ✔✔-involves the processes of social planning and
community organization
-ex: work with citizen groups or with private, public, or governmental organizations
Mission of Social Work - correct answer ✔✔to enhance human well-being and help meet the
basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of
people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty
Purpose of Social Work - correct answer ✔✔-restorative: restore functioning that has been
impaired
-remedial: elimination or amelioration existing social problems
-preventive: provision of services to promote social functioning
5 Roles of Direct Practitioners - correct answer ✔✔1. Direct services functions
2. System linkage functions
3. System maintenance and enhancement functions
4. research/evaluation functions
, 5. System development functions
Direct services functions - correct answer ✔✔-Individual caseworker, therapist, or counselor
-Couples and/or family therapist
-Group work service provider/therapist
-Educator/disseminator of information
System linkage functions - correct answer ✔✔-Broker
-Case manager/care coordinator
-Mediator/arbitrator
-Client advocate
System maintenance and enhancement functions - correct answer ✔✔-Organizational analyst
-Facilitator/expediter
-Team member - often Interdisciplinary
-Consultant/consultee
-Supervisor
research/evaluation functions - correct answer ✔✔-Researcher: Principal or Co-principal
Investigator
-Research team member
-Research participant
-Research Consumer
-Practice Evaluator
System development functions - correct answer ✔✔-Program developer
