SOCIAL WORK COMPREHENSIVE EXAM Questions and
Answers Latest Update 2025
_______ and ________state that simply put values answer the question of whether a proposition is right
or wrong while knowledge answers the question as to whether something is true or false -
✔✔✔Compton and Galaway
_________ is an organized concerned of all people for all people. According to __________. -
✔✔✔Social Welfare, Gertrude Wilson
_________ was ruled by a headman or the oldest member of the community. - ✔✔✔Barangay
___________ lived in small scattered communities usually located along mouths of rivers and costal
plain - ✔✔✔Pre historic Filipinos
____________ states that "Every profession has a particular function to perform in society: it receives a
certain job assignment for which it is held accountable" - ✔✔✔William Schwartz
_______________________ states that the knowledge base of social work is a comprehensive topic
which encompasses the facts and theories skills and attitudes necessary for effective and efficient
practice - ✔✔✔Alfred Kadushin
______________defines it as "the organized system of social services and institutions, designed to aid
individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health. - ✔✔✔Walter Friedlander
- Mediating function of social work is the key concept in this approach
- According to him, the function of social work is to mediate transactions between people and the
various systems through which they carry on their relationship with society...
- Symbiotic means needing the other for its own life and growth and each reaching out to the other with
all he strength it can command at the given moment. - The social worker is the third party -
✔✔✔Interactionist Approach William Schwartz
,2 forces of social functioning - ✔✔✔-the individual's coping capacities
-the demands of his situation/environment
3 CATEGORIES OF SOCIAL WELFARE - ✔✔✔SOCIAL SECURITY
PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICE
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
3 essential components present in a profession - ✔✔✔values
knowledge
skills
3 interrelated system in social work - ✔✔✔values, theory, practice
3 MOTIVATIO OR REASONS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES - ✔✔✔Humanitarian and Social Justice
goals
Social Control goals
Economic Development Goals
3 purposes or functions of social work - ✔✔✔-To assist individuals and groups to identify and resolve or
minimize problems arising out of a disequilibrium between themselves and the environment
(restorative/curative/remedial function and rehabilitative function)
-To identify potential areas of disequilibrium between individuals or groups and the environment in
order to prevent the occurrence of disequilibrium (preventive function)
-To seek out, identify, and strengthen the maximum potential in individuals, groups, and communities.
(developmental function)
3 responses to social functioning problem - ✔✔✔change strategies directed toward the individual
change strategies directed toward the environment
change strategies directed toward both the individual and environment
, 3 types of knowledge - ✔✔✔tested knowledge
hypothetical knowledge
assumptive knowledge
3 ways SOCIETY RESPONDS TO UNMET NEEDS OR PROBLEM - ✔✔✔Individual and Group Efforts
Major societal institutions
Social Agency
4 examples of ethical dilemmas faced by social workers - ✔✔✔1. manipulation
2. advocacy
3. conflicting loyalties
4. cultural and other realities
4 unwritten duties and obligations - ✔✔✔1. duties towards client
2. duties toward colleagues and the profession
3. duties towards the agency/organization
4. duties towards the community/public
5 basic steps in social work helping process - ✔✔✔Assessment, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation, and
Termination
A face to face meeting between the worker and client; a direct conversation, an event composed of a
sequence of physical and mental experiences that occur when and where a helping professional
practitioner and a client talk to one another - ✔✔✔Interviewing
a facility of getting along with others in such a way as to avoid outward signs of conflict, - ✔✔✔smooth
interpersonal relations
Answers Latest Update 2025
_______ and ________state that simply put values answer the question of whether a proposition is right
or wrong while knowledge answers the question as to whether something is true or false -
✔✔✔Compton and Galaway
_________ is an organized concerned of all people for all people. According to __________. -
✔✔✔Social Welfare, Gertrude Wilson
_________ was ruled by a headman or the oldest member of the community. - ✔✔✔Barangay
___________ lived in small scattered communities usually located along mouths of rivers and costal
plain - ✔✔✔Pre historic Filipinos
____________ states that "Every profession has a particular function to perform in society: it receives a
certain job assignment for which it is held accountable" - ✔✔✔William Schwartz
_______________________ states that the knowledge base of social work is a comprehensive topic
which encompasses the facts and theories skills and attitudes necessary for effective and efficient
practice - ✔✔✔Alfred Kadushin
______________defines it as "the organized system of social services and institutions, designed to aid
individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health. - ✔✔✔Walter Friedlander
- Mediating function of social work is the key concept in this approach
- According to him, the function of social work is to mediate transactions between people and the
various systems through which they carry on their relationship with society...
- Symbiotic means needing the other for its own life and growth and each reaching out to the other with
all he strength it can command at the given moment. - The social worker is the third party -
✔✔✔Interactionist Approach William Schwartz
,2 forces of social functioning - ✔✔✔-the individual's coping capacities
-the demands of his situation/environment
3 CATEGORIES OF SOCIAL WELFARE - ✔✔✔SOCIAL SECURITY
PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICE
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
3 essential components present in a profession - ✔✔✔values
knowledge
skills
3 interrelated system in social work - ✔✔✔values, theory, practice
3 MOTIVATIO OR REASONS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES - ✔✔✔Humanitarian and Social Justice
goals
Social Control goals
Economic Development Goals
3 purposes or functions of social work - ✔✔✔-To assist individuals and groups to identify and resolve or
minimize problems arising out of a disequilibrium between themselves and the environment
(restorative/curative/remedial function and rehabilitative function)
-To identify potential areas of disequilibrium between individuals or groups and the environment in
order to prevent the occurrence of disequilibrium (preventive function)
-To seek out, identify, and strengthen the maximum potential in individuals, groups, and communities.
(developmental function)
3 responses to social functioning problem - ✔✔✔change strategies directed toward the individual
change strategies directed toward the environment
change strategies directed toward both the individual and environment
, 3 types of knowledge - ✔✔✔tested knowledge
hypothetical knowledge
assumptive knowledge
3 ways SOCIETY RESPONDS TO UNMET NEEDS OR PROBLEM - ✔✔✔Individual and Group Efforts
Major societal institutions
Social Agency
4 examples of ethical dilemmas faced by social workers - ✔✔✔1. manipulation
2. advocacy
3. conflicting loyalties
4. cultural and other realities
4 unwritten duties and obligations - ✔✔✔1. duties towards client
2. duties toward colleagues and the profession
3. duties towards the agency/organization
4. duties towards the community/public
5 basic steps in social work helping process - ✔✔✔Assessment, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation, and
Termination
A face to face meeting between the worker and client; a direct conversation, an event composed of a
sequence of physical and mental experiences that occur when and where a helping professional
practitioner and a client talk to one another - ✔✔✔Interviewing
a facility of getting along with others in such a way as to avoid outward signs of conflict, - ✔✔✔smooth
interpersonal relations
