The most important role social workers play in community planning is

a. to help community members, who are too often accustomed to thinking ofthemselves as marginal, learn to use their abilities

b. to teach community members learn how to use the political system andmake it work for them, rather than against them.
c. to insist that the poor and the powerless and uninfluential develop plans fortheir communities that matter as much as the plans of the rich, the powerful,the connected. d. to remind community members not to overplay their hand and anger thosewith more resources and power.


c

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Participatory action research is an approach to social work research which:

a. maximizes the participation of the researcher in the research process b. maximizes the participation of the clients in the research process c. ensures that the research will result in some form of social change d. both b and c

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Family roles are

a. present only in families that are functioning relatively normally. b. clear cut and socially prescribed. c. expected both by society and the individuals within the family. d. determined by family counselors.

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Oppressed groups such as individuals in poverty, people of color, members of the GLBTQ

population, and the elderly occupy ____________in our society. a) dominant niches b) exclusive niches c) marginalized niches d) holistic niches

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Which of the following is not a tenet of a strengths-based approach?

A) ?providing options B) ?choice C) ?urinalysis testing D) ?awareness of the client's readiness for change

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