Maintain a journal in which you reflect on your typical life stressors and how you might take better care of yourself with regard to them. Include thoughts on how such stressors might negatively or positively affect your practice as a social worker.

What will be an ideal response?


Students can be assigned this activity for some specified length of time (a week or month, for example). The purposes of the assignment is for them to learn to recognize stress in their lives, recognize the many, sometimes subtle ways in which they deal with it, and how “carrying” stress may affect their ability to function as helpers. The assignment should help students learn to put aside some of their own preoccupations so that they can focus on others, especially their clients.

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Explain the purpose for making variables mutually exclusive.

What will be an ideal response?

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The most significant and successful social welfare policy of the colonial era was

a. Poor relief laws b. Land distribution c. Private nonprofit sector d. Residency requirements

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Stage 2 of the stages for interventions among stress victims is the immediate stage that is treated on the scene, in an emergency room, or at a stress trauma treatment center.

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An explanatory research study would focus on the ______.

A. characteristics of people B. relationships between variables C. success of a service D. examination of a theme where little is currently known

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