Name and briefly describe four common duties of health/medical social workers.

What will be an ideal response?


Crisis intervention, grief counseling, chart documentation, debriefing with colleagues, discharge planning, chemical dependency evaluation, mental health assessment, short-term decision-making counseling, facilitating support groups, specialty evaluations and coordination, and child abuse investigations and reporting.

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What most often determines the difference between the adolescents who are harmlessly experimenting with independence and conduct disorder is

a. the attitude, social skills, and anxiety level of the adolescent. b. the frequency, persistence, and seriousness of the maladaptive behavior. c. the nature of the family dynamics of the adolescent. d. the existence of depression and anxiety in the adolescent.

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Adjustment refers to

a. known internal or external resources with known probabilities of producing positive developmental or other relevant behavioral outcomes. b. how a biological organism responds to changes in the environment. c. the processes involved in how a person copes with the demands and challenges of everyday life, including changes in the social environment. d. the fact that risk factors threaten development and these negative effects will accumulate over time.

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One factor in assessing community capacity is the collective competence of the community in addressing challenges

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Match the key term with its definition.

1. Simple random sampling 2. Systematic random sampling 3. Cluster sampling 4. Stratified random sampling a. Groups are randomly selected, and then elements are randomly selected from those groups. b. Sub-groups within the population are identified as sharing some characteristic, and elements are randomly selected from with those sub- groups. c. Elements are selected by use of a random number table. d. Elements are selected by choosing every nth element on the sampling frame after a random starting point.

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