A mother has been found to have neglected her child. Child Protective Services has decided that it is in the best interest to remove the child from the mother's care. A family friend volunteers to take the child. Upon interview it is established that this family friend has had charges pending against her for child maltreatment in the past. The social worker should FIRST:
A. Place the child in an emergency foster care group home
B. Immediately assess the placement situation for current problems
C. Ask the child's mother which placement option she prefers
D. Initiate paperwork for another more permanent foster placement
A. Place the child In an emergency foster care group home.
Always try to protect the child or provide a protected environment first.
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A. supporting or opposing specific ballot propositions. B. register voters. C. make policy proposals to heads of state and to legislators. D. All of these are correct.
Feminist therapists share a belief that:
A. "The normal family" has too often been defined as one with heterosexual parents and has not been so "normal" or wonderful for mothers, reflecting the discrimination against women evident in world systems beyond the family B. Bowen family therapy is the surest way to ensure a rational and equitable approach to working with families C. Feminists should be the only therapists to counsel women D. Women will not be fully equal until husbands change their names when women marry them and the children are given the woman’s surname
The most comprehensive type of interaction between a case manager and client is the:
A) ?structured clinical interview. B) ?case history interview. C) ?mental status exam. D) ?computerized interview.
Which of the following is a major advantage of receiving licensure in the human service professions?
A. Licensure makes it easier for human service professionals to obtain tenure as college or university professors. B. Those who are licensed can obtain third-party reimbursement for providing counseling and psychotherapy to clients. C. When licensure is received, human service professionals are given no-cost membership in the major professional associations. D. Licensure gives the human service professional the right to prescribe psychotropic medications as part of their clinical practice.