One disadvantage of self-help programs is that

A. the participants are never fully equipped to offer the services they claim to provide.
B. community groups involved in self-help rarely acquire the necessary financial resources.
C. their scope is too limited to be of true service to the community.
D. they rarely influence the larger institutional system.


D. they rarely influence the larger institutional system.

Self-help groups rarely develop effective action programs. The reasons are rooted in the service orientation that energizes them. Providing services is labor intensive and occupies the energies of members, leaving little room or energy for altering priorities.

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_____ is the presentation of an aversive event or the removal of a positive event that results in the decreased

frequency of a particular behavior.

a. Positive reinforcement b. Negative reinforcement c. Punishment d. Modeling

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Through preparatory self-exploration, identify those personal factors that might inhibit your effectiveness

in this situation. Suggest a few steps you might take to diminish these potentially adverse responses.

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following statements is true of the skill of reflecting feelings?

A. It requires that a social worker feel the same emotions as those felt by clients. B. Effective use of the reflecting feelings skill requires a limited and standard vocabulary of terms that connote emotions. C. It cannot be used to interpret nonverbal messages. D. Early in the working relationship between a social worker and a client, unspoken emotions are ignored.

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The story of ________ raised awareness of child abuse; at the time,

animals had a law protecting them from abuse, but children did not. A. Jane Addams B. Mary Ellen C. Sue Smith D. Laura Jane

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