SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY A
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE 10TH
EDITION FINAL PAPER EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED
TO PASS
◉ Policy practice
Answer: •"encompasses professional efforts to influence the
development, enactment, implementation, modification, or
assessment of social policies, primarily to ensure social justice and
equal access to basic social goods"
•Social workers see first-hand the results of both failed and effective
social policies. We are expected to do more than complain about
unjust and ineffective policies; we must take action by engaging in
policy practice.
◉ Dual assessment
Answer: engage and assess your clients, you will also need to
evaluate the policies and programs that either facilitate success or
create barriers to the achievement of their goals.
◉ Micro-level practice
, Answer: involves engaging at the individual level
◉ Mezzo-level practice
Answer: involves work with groups or neighborhoods.
◉ Macro-level practice
Answer: involves intervening in large systems and may affect
policies and practices at the agency, local, state, national, and global
levels.
◉ Strengths Perspective Policy Practice Principles
Answer: •Client strengths and goals are legitimate starting points for
developing social policy. Problems and deficits are not given center
stage.
•Clients' perspectives concerning their problems, strengths, and
goals should inform the social construction of needs.
•Social policies and programs should build on individual and
community strengths and resources and remove structural barriers
that disadvantage the target group. When making claims for benefits
and services, social workers should emphasize the structural
barriers that create unequal opportunities and impair clients'
abilities to meet their needs.
••Claims for benefits and services that allow people to overcome
these barriers are made based on the right to equal access to
resources and opportunities to meet their needs and reach their
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE 10TH
EDITION FINAL PAPER EXAM PREP
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED
TO PASS
◉ Policy practice
Answer: •"encompasses professional efforts to influence the
development, enactment, implementation, modification, or
assessment of social policies, primarily to ensure social justice and
equal access to basic social goods"
•Social workers see first-hand the results of both failed and effective
social policies. We are expected to do more than complain about
unjust and ineffective policies; we must take action by engaging in
policy practice.
◉ Dual assessment
Answer: engage and assess your clients, you will also need to
evaluate the policies and programs that either facilitate success or
create barriers to the achievement of their goals.
◉ Micro-level practice
, Answer: involves engaging at the individual level
◉ Mezzo-level practice
Answer: involves work with groups or neighborhoods.
◉ Macro-level practice
Answer: involves intervening in large systems and may affect
policies and practices at the agency, local, state, national, and global
levels.
◉ Strengths Perspective Policy Practice Principles
Answer: •Client strengths and goals are legitimate starting points for
developing social policy. Problems and deficits are not given center
stage.
•Clients' perspectives concerning their problems, strengths, and
goals should inform the social construction of needs.
•Social policies and programs should build on individual and
community strengths and resources and remove structural barriers
that disadvantage the target group. When making claims for benefits
and services, social workers should emphasize the structural
barriers that create unequal opportunities and impair clients'
abilities to meet their needs.
••Claims for benefits and services that allow people to overcome
these barriers are made based on the right to equal access to
resources and opportunities to meet their needs and reach their
