You are visiting a client for the first time who lives in very minimal housing conditions, and the situation is very unlike any that you have encountered before. Which of the following would help the most in overcoming this challenge?
A. consider how unfamiliar the experience of talking to a social worker must be for the client
B. ignore your discomfort and proceed as you normally would
C. immediately try to help the client improve his or her physical surroundings
D. refer the client to a different social worker who is more accustomed to those situations
A. consider how unfamiliar the experience of talking to a social worker must be for the client
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. they are the three basic dimensions for assessing human behavior and the social environment. b. they do not interact with other living systems or with other nonliving components of the system's physical environment. c. they are conceptualized as a system of biopsychosocial functioning. d. they involve multiple systems that are organized in a hierarchy of levels from the smallest (cellular) to the largest (social).
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a. Greece b. Slovakia c. Cuba d. The United States of America