Five underlying principles: -every individual, group, family, and community has strengths -trauma and abuse, illness and struggle may be injurious but they may also be sources of challenge and opportunity -social workers should assume that they do not know the upper limits of the capacity to grow and change and take individual, group, and community aspirations seriously -social workers best serve clients by collaborating with them -every environment is full of resources
What will be an ideal response?
strengths perspective
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a. they use drugs that are illegal. b. they continue to use the substance despite experiencing negative consequences from their use. c. they have demonstrated concrete negative consequences in response to their substance abuse behavior such as the loss of a job or the loss of family. d. they have endured legal consequences in response to their substance abuse behavior.
When in the role of _______________, the practitioner is facilitating change by helping individuals, families, and groups to learn new methods, new ways of thinking, new behaviors, and new ways of acting
a. expert b. a professional c. educator d. facilitator
A single indicator of a variable is called:
a. an item. b. a scale. c. an index. d. a measurement.
All but which of the following factors were developed rapidly in the period from the turn of the century to the great depression:
a) Advancement of immigrant skill and status b) New power supplies c) Greater mechanization d) Spread of “scientific management”