When you think about meeting a new client, you engage in ______.

A. preparatory empathy
B. preparatory sympathy
C. elementary empathy
D. preliminary sympathy


Ans: A

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Many therapists have dismissed published research reports as:

a. irrelevant to their everyday needs and interests b. too time consuming to read c. based on too small a sample d. willing to deal with individuals only but not families

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evidence-based practices. Hopefully agency administrators help to bridge the gap between research and practice by providing trainings or having literature available. While reviewing the literature, what should a social work practitioner note about the variables in any given study? a) Were descriptions provided for how the variables were defined and measured? b) Are all the variables related to social work? c) Were variables ruled-out of the research due to extraneous factors? d) Are variables diverse?

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