What are the overarching principles guiding ecological social work practice? Explain at least four in your own words, identifying their connection to social work values and ethics.
What will be an ideal response?
See Exhibit 16.1 for a full listing of these principles.
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What is a primary risk factor of elder abuse?
a. being in a nursing home b. having home healthcare c. caregiver burnout d. low income
The DHS Unit staff and their supervisors at Pathfinders believe the RCA?ES guidelines are flawed. What actions, if any, can they pursue to amend these guidelines?
Nathan Bierwirth, BSW, worked as an employment counselor for Pathfinders Social Services, a nonprofit agency serving the Minneapolis metropolitan area. Pathfinders provided employment services for people leaving welfare, persons with disabilities, the homeless, and immigrants, refugees, and asylees. Part of Nathan’s caseload consisted of newly arrived refugees enrolled in Minnesota’s time-limited Refugee Cash Assistance–Employment Services (RCA-ES) program. Individualized Employment Plans (EPs) helped refugees transition from welfare to employment and self-sufficiency. EPs required a minimum of 35 hours per week of RCA-ES–approved activities, including employment services and formal education (limited to 20 hours per week). Nathan’s client, Ayana Tuma, a refugee from Ethiopia, had no educational or work experience and knew no English. This prevented her from effectively participating in employment service classes, so she enrolled in a full-time English as a Second Language (ESL) program. When Hennepin County audited Pathfinders, clients like Ayana, who exceeded the 20 hour instruction limit, could be sanctioned and even terminated from the program. As the audit approached, Nathan wondered if he should report Ayana’s ESL hours accurately or falsify her Employment Plan.
Finding a way to eliminate poverty therefore eliminating many social problems:
a. Is not the answer. We need to deal directly with the individual victims of poverty, counsel them, and help them adjust to their unfortunate circumstances. b. Is limited environmental change. c. Would involve a change in many systems, institutions, economics, policies, attitudes, and individuals: complete social change. d. Is the goal of TANF.
Which of the following is the best explanation for the gender gap in wages?
A) Women are more likely than men to work in jobs that require minimal levels of education. B) Women work fewer hours than men. C) Typically men are employed in full-time jobs and women are not. D) Female-dominated occupations pay less than male-dominated occupations.