SOWK 3425 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|100% CORRECT|2025/2026|GRADED A+

SOWK 3425 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS|100% CORRECT|2025/2026|GRADED A+
macro practice social work - ANSWER-
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professionally guided intervention(s) designed to bring about change in organizational, comm
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unity, and/or policy arenas
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Dual calling of social work - ANSWER-
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to address systemic social problems and to provide for the needs of individuals and families.
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General issues facing social workers in their daily practice - ANSWER-
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including to but not limited to individual client problems. If social workers are to be effective i
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n serving their clients, many problems must be recognized and addressed at the agency, com
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munity, and policy levels. Some of these problems require changing the nature of services, pro
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grams, or policies. Most require an understanding of funding issues and the complications cau
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sed by economic challenges.
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macro level change - ANSWER- B B B B



Intervention in organizations or communities. If the problems lie with the individual or if it is t
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he community that is the issue.
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Role of micro level social worker with macro level issues - ANSWER--
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Micro (individual, domestic unit, or group)
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-Macro interventions (organization, community, or policy)
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Micro (individual, domestic unit, or group) ---often the first to recognize patterns - ANSWER-
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indicating the need for change. If one or two persons present a particular problem, a logical re
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sponse is to deal with them as individuals. This is then possible that something must be wrong
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Bin the system and the social worker must then assume the responsibility for identifying the sy
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stem(s) in need of change and the type of change needed. The nature of the system(s) in need
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of change and the type of change needed may lead to community wide intervention or interve
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ntion in a single organization.
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-Macro interventions (organization, community, or policy) - planner, policy analyst,
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, program coordinator, community organizer, manager, and administrator. - ANSWER-
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Policy change B B




is so integral to what happens in organizations and communities, so if doing macro, must be fu
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ll-
time. Social workers find themselves drawn into episodes of macro practice through a number
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Bof different avenues, which we will refer to as (1) population, (2) problem, and (3) arena
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Interrelationship of micro and macro level social work - ANSWER- B B B B B B B B B



multiple, overlapping systems that compromise the person's social and physical environment
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Micro social workers bear responsibility for initiating change in organizations and communitys
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. They are the first to recognize patterns indicating the need for change
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General understanding of systems theory: - ANSWER-
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contends that there are multiple parts of any entity, whether it is a group, an organization, or a
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Bcommunity. Entities can be best understood as systems with interconnecting components, an
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d certain common principles help in understanding systems, whether they are as large as an in
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ternational corporation or as small as a family B B B B B B B




Theories - ANSWER- B B



are sets of interrelated concepts and constructs that provide a framework for understanding h
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ow and why something does or does not work.
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models - ANSWER- B B



are prescriptions based on theories that provide direction for the practitioner, whereas appro
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aches are less prescribed. Theories can provide the tools for thinking about a problem or need
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, whereas models and approaches provide guidelines for action and intervention.
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Social workers and dilemmas - ANSWER-¡Service
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÷Beneficence requires that the professional view clients holistically
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