McPherson et al. (2009) have described Alcoholics Anonymous as

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Objectivity and credibility are strengths of using external university evaluators. 2. Evaluators employed with private consulting firms can often respond quicker to an agency’s need to immediately start a program evaluation. 3. Researchers at university research institutes and centers are usually less expensive than private consulting firms. 4. If an evaluator is a personal friend of the agency director, the neutral stance and open-mindedness of the evaluation process will be enhanced. 5. Agencies can eliminate potential conflicts of interest if they use an internal evaluator.

The skill of communicating competently with people of contrasting cultures, which is

becoming an increasingly important expertise in social work practice, is referred to as A. cultural paradigm B. cultural interaction C. cultural competency D. cultural understanding

The emotional impact of a group ending has been likened to other experiences involving ______.

a. loss b. anger c. anxiety d. new beginnings

Shen Nung:

A. was a nineteenth-century Chinese pharmacist who included marijuana as a curative herb in his pharmaceutical treatise. B. was a Chinese emperor who lived in the third millennium B.C.E. and discovered the effects of marijuana. C. is a pharmacist living in New York's Chinatown who currently prescribes marijuana for a variety of ailments. D. was a mythological figure who was neither an actual Chinese emperor nor a writer of a pharmaceutical treatise that included marijuana as a curative herb. E. none of the above.