The purpose of social work practice is

A. To sanction people
B. To ameliorate those conditions that contributes to the
breakdown of a healthy relationship between an individual and
his or her environment.
C. To provide charity
D. To reduce national poverty levels


B

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The term restrictive in the phrase “least restrictive environment” means restrictive in

a. opportunities for learning. b. being with students who do not have disabilities. c. freedom to move. d. learning opportunities. e. opportunities to talk.

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Psychoanalytic clinicians identify pathology in families as the result of ____________, while structural family therapists locate dysfunction in the boundaries between subsystems

a. conflict b. intrapsychic rigidity c. developmental arrest d. all of the above

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By 1980 the American welfare state consisted of a series of overlays as well as linked programs including

A. programs traditionally operated by local governments. B. state level social welfare programs. C. programs linked to federal funding and oversight. D. All of the answers are correct.

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Hostility to the philosophy and methodology of the Charity Organizations in the late 1800s stemmed from the belief that:

a) Their efforts were doing nothing but breaking up families.
b) Private agencies were interfering with public relief efforts.
c) They were more focused on preventing fraud than on helping.
d) They were taking advantage of vulnerable middle-class woman.

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