SWK 170 Exam 3 Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 2: Empowerment practices (302&303)
Answer: Helps to enhance coping skills, through consciousness raising, education, and support.
Empowerment with adults should include three basic strategies, assisting older adults, individually and
collectively to define their own needs: promoting conscious awareness of social and economic justice; and
encouraging political action.
Question 3: Mental Health challenges (308)
Answer: Increase with age because the aging process is inevitably accompanied by personal losses.
Question 4: Elder abuse and self neglect (315)
Answer: -women are abused at a higher rate than men and that abuse increases with age -may occur in
several ways such as physical maltreatment, sexual abuse, verbal or emotional abuse, etc
Question 5: SSI (319)
Answer: Supplemental Security Income is another federal entitlement program that was initiated in 1972 as
an amendment to the Social Security Act f 1935. -This program was designed to reduce the stigma of public
assistance for three categories of poor people: older adults, persons who are blind, and persons who have
other disabilities.
Question 6: The continuum of care (324)
Answer: Most older adults want to maintain independence as long as possible, recognition of this preference
has led to the concept of the continuum of care, this allows whatever to be done in order to allow an older
person remain in his or her own home setting as long as possible.
Question 8: Components of the criminal justice system (parol vs probation and misdemeanor vs felony)
(341-343)
Answer: -misdemeanor is a relatively minor offense but certainly more serious than a misdeed: it is
punishable by fines, probation, or a relatively brief jail or prison sentence. -a felony is a serious crime such
as murder, rape, and armed burglary. a felony often results in a prison sentence of one or more years, or
possibly the death penalty. -probation is a sentence, following conviction for a crime, in which the offender
is ordered to undergo supervision for a prescribed period of time instead of serving time in prison -parole is
when a person has served a portion of his or her sentence in prison and then receives an early release to
complete the sentence in the community under supervision
Question 9: Jail VS Prison (345)
Answer: A prison is used for a lengthier sentence, generally for a number of years whereas a jail is a
correctional facility used for shorter sentences or for detaining persons while they await a court hearing
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Question 2: Empowerment practices (302&303)
Answer: Helps to enhance coping skills, through consciousness raising, education, and support.
Empowerment with adults should include three basic strategies, assisting older adults, individually and
collectively to define their own needs: promoting conscious awareness of social and economic justice; and
encouraging political action.
Question 3: Mental Health challenges (308)
Answer: Increase with age because the aging process is inevitably accompanied by personal losses.
Question 4: Elder abuse and self neglect (315)
Answer: -women are abused at a higher rate than men and that abuse increases with age -may occur in
several ways such as physical maltreatment, sexual abuse, verbal or emotional abuse, etc
Question 5: SSI (319)
Answer: Supplemental Security Income is another federal entitlement program that was initiated in 1972 as
an amendment to the Social Security Act f 1935. -This program was designed to reduce the stigma of public
assistance for three categories of poor people: older adults, persons who are blind, and persons who have
other disabilities.
Question 6: The continuum of care (324)
Answer: Most older adults want to maintain independence as long as possible, recognition of this preference
has led to the concept of the continuum of care, this allows whatever to be done in order to allow an older
person remain in his or her own home setting as long as possible.
Question 8: Components of the criminal justice system (parol vs probation and misdemeanor vs felony)
(341-343)
Answer: -misdemeanor is a relatively minor offense but certainly more serious than a misdeed: it is
punishable by fines, probation, or a relatively brief jail or prison sentence. -a felony is a serious crime such
as murder, rape, and armed burglary. a felony often results in a prison sentence of one or more years, or
possibly the death penalty. -probation is a sentence, following conviction for a crime, in which the offender
is ordered to undergo supervision for a prescribed period of time instead of serving time in prison -parole is
when a person has served a portion of his or her sentence in prison and then receives an early release to
complete the sentence in the community under supervision
Question 9: Jail VS Prison (345)
Answer: A prison is used for a lengthier sentence, generally for a number of years whereas a jail is a
correctional facility used for shorter sentences or for detaining persons while they await a court hearing
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