The job of "Friendly Visitors" was to:
a) Thoroughly document a family's needs, living conditions, and resources and dispense funds
according to fixed guidelines.
b) Make sure that children were not working and were attending school.
c) Assess needy families to determine if they were "worthy" or "unworthy" poor, and provide "moral
uplift"
d) Connect needy families with churches that could provide social assistance.
C
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What will be an ideal response?
The structure of family life changed dramatically during this period of time. Describe these changes and the impact they had on families and society in general. What aspects of these changes were positive and which were negative?
What will be an ideal response?
How might you introduce the topic of evaluating practice with a client with whom the
work is proceeding slowly? a. Tell them they need to start working harder at achieving success in their life and hope they pick up on indirect messages you are sending them b. Inform them that you might not work with them any longer because the work is going so slowly c. Suggest to the client that you would like them to get the very most out of your work together and so would like to talk about ways in which you might help them more effectively d. Talk to them about how they might be purposely sabotaging their success in their work
There has been a traumatic event in your town. You have been instrumental in providing services. You would like to publicize the work you did. You would:
a. write your congressman and ask him to issue a public statement about your work b. call the newspaper and ask them to do a story c. write your local social work board d. nothing - this would be unethical