MSW Comp Exam Questions and
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cultural humility - ✔✔incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-
critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-clinician dynamic and to
developing mutually beneficial and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf
of individuals and defined populations
Asexual - ✔✔having no sexual attraction to others
Pansexual - ✔✔not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or
gender identity.
Economic Justice - ✔✔A set of moral principles for building economic institutions; the
goal is to create an opportunity for each person to create dignified, productive, and
creative life.
Assimilation - ✔✔Pressuring members of minority groups to drop their culture and
differences & become mirror of dominant culture
internalized oppression - ✔✔Internalizing negative judgments of being "the other,"
leading to self-hatred, depression, despair, and self-abuse
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - ✔✔Adopted by the UN General
Assembly in 1948, this established human rights to be protected. Ex: Equal pay for equal
work, etc.
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,envrionmental justice - ✔✔Fair treatment & meaningful involvement of all people
regardless of race/ color/ national origin/ income with respect to development...
enforcement of environmental law.
Ex: Having clean water, ensuring community has safety hazards.
Social Justice - ✔✔ensuring that essential human needs are met and that essential
human rights are protected for all people
Macro-Level Advocacy - ✔✔Focuses on social change in terms of social welfare policy
& community change.
Engage in an informed discussion of the universal aspects of human rights and
environmental justice to identify sustainable solutions to the environmental crisis facing
humanity.
COMPETENCY 3
Micro level advocacy - ✔✔Focuses on individual and family therapy.
Advocacy is based on self-determination and would ideally occur with clients and not
simply for them.
Includes 3 pillars of sw
1. practice-oppression
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,2. empowerment
3. strength perspective
COMPETENCY 3
What are the 3 Pillars of Social work practice on a micro level advocacy? - ✔✔1.
practice-oppression
2. empowerment
3. strength perspective- are related to having access to resources and being treated with
dignity.
COMPETENCY 3
experimental research design - ✔✔a research design in which an experimental group is
administered a treatment and the outcome is compared with a control group that does
not receive the treatment
Randomized & most rigorous
Types of Research:
Quasi-Experimental - ✔✔Randomization is not practical or feasible. Includes
interventions & comparison groups but assignment to group is nonrandom.
Types of Research:
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, Single Subject - ✔✔Determines whether an intervention has the intended impact on a
client or many clients who form a group. Most common are: pre & post tests, single care
student. Ex: ABA, AB
internal validity - ✔✔addresses the extent to which causal inferences can be made about
the intervention and targeted behavior.
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external validity - ✔✔How generalizable those inferences are to the general population.
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Qualitative Research - ✔✔Usually involved collecting info. through unstructured
interviews, observations, and/ or focus groups.
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Quantitative Research - ✔✔Mainly collects data through input of responses to research
instruments containing questionnaires, online/ mail surveys, phone surveys or
interviews.
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secondary data - ✔✔information that has already been collected for other purposes,
already exists somewhere.
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Answers 100% Pass
cultural humility - ✔✔incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-
critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-clinician dynamic and to
developing mutually beneficial and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf
of individuals and defined populations
Asexual - ✔✔having no sexual attraction to others
Pansexual - ✔✔not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or
gender identity.
Economic Justice - ✔✔A set of moral principles for building economic institutions; the
goal is to create an opportunity for each person to create dignified, productive, and
creative life.
Assimilation - ✔✔Pressuring members of minority groups to drop their culture and
differences & become mirror of dominant culture
internalized oppression - ✔✔Internalizing negative judgments of being "the other,"
leading to self-hatred, depression, despair, and self-abuse
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - ✔✔Adopted by the UN General
Assembly in 1948, this established human rights to be protected. Ex: Equal pay for equal
work, etc.
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,envrionmental justice - ✔✔Fair treatment & meaningful involvement of all people
regardless of race/ color/ national origin/ income with respect to development...
enforcement of environmental law.
Ex: Having clean water, ensuring community has safety hazards.
Social Justice - ✔✔ensuring that essential human needs are met and that essential
human rights are protected for all people
Macro-Level Advocacy - ✔✔Focuses on social change in terms of social welfare policy
& community change.
Engage in an informed discussion of the universal aspects of human rights and
environmental justice to identify sustainable solutions to the environmental crisis facing
humanity.
COMPETENCY 3
Micro level advocacy - ✔✔Focuses on individual and family therapy.
Advocacy is based on self-determination and would ideally occur with clients and not
simply for them.
Includes 3 pillars of sw
1. practice-oppression
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,2. empowerment
3. strength perspective
COMPETENCY 3
What are the 3 Pillars of Social work practice on a micro level advocacy? - ✔✔1.
practice-oppression
2. empowerment
3. strength perspective- are related to having access to resources and being treated with
dignity.
COMPETENCY 3
experimental research design - ✔✔a research design in which an experimental group is
administered a treatment and the outcome is compared with a control group that does
not receive the treatment
Randomized & most rigorous
Types of Research:
Quasi-Experimental - ✔✔Randomization is not practical or feasible. Includes
interventions & comparison groups but assignment to group is nonrandom.
Types of Research:
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, Single Subject - ✔✔Determines whether an intervention has the intended impact on a
client or many clients who form a group. Most common are: pre & post tests, single care
student. Ex: ABA, AB
internal validity - ✔✔addresses the extent to which causal inferences can be made about
the intervention and targeted behavior.
PAGE 257
external validity - ✔✔How generalizable those inferences are to the general population.
PAGE 257
Qualitative Research - ✔✔Usually involved collecting info. through unstructured
interviews, observations, and/ or focus groups.
PAGE 257
Quantitative Research - ✔✔Mainly collects data through input of responses to research
instruments containing questionnaires, online/ mail surveys, phone surveys or
interviews.
PAGE 257
secondary data - ✔✔information that has already been collected for other purposes,
already exists somewhere.
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