Two ways in which poverty differs for African American families from other families of color are:
a. chances of being poor are greater and there is a lack of motivation to get out of poverty.
b. chances of being poor are greater and opportunities for upward mobility are more limited.
c. there is a lack of motivation to get out of poverty and opportunities for upward mobility are more limited.
d. none of the above
Answer: B
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____________ systems are institutionalized organizations or services, such as private and public social service agencies, family service agencies, and libraries
A) ?Informal B) ?Societal C) ?Formal
The delivery of the program following a specific course of action is known as:
a. Treatment fidelity b. Intervention testing c. Accountability examination d. Practice productivity e. Specificity of measurement
The medicalization of social work practice refers to:
a. the social worker seeking to understand the client's problems not by use of a medical definition but by the context of their lives. b. the promotion of psychiatric understandings of client problems, and the potential impact of minimizing social workers' considerations of the extrapersonal contributing factors that are associated with clients' difficulties. c. the aim of the profession to help clients with problems in psychosocial functioning and to engage in professional closeness with their clients in a way that does not define them as a "patient" but as a person. d. the way in which social workers may diagnose clients regarding their physical health.
With regard to the African American family, Boyd-Franklin found:
a) There are no discerible patterns in African American families b) African American families always extend beyond nuclear arrangements c) Religion and spirituality are always the core source of support d) None of the above