In dealing with a bureaucracy whose practices seem to be hurting, rather than helping clients, workers should consider doing which of the following:
A. Speaking out about their beliefs, showing the politics that might lie behind
certain bureaucratic rules.
B. Forming alliances with other workers and with the clients to do social action.
C. Questioning rules and regulations rather than docilely going along with them.
D. Lobbying to change the legislative mandates that might have set these rules.
E. All of the above.
E
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Identify two contemporary issues experienced by LGBT individuals and how social workers can respond.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following has the least impact on society?
a. pregnant teens are less likely to finish high school than teens who don't get pregnant b. teens are at greater risk of giving birth to infants with congenital problems c. most teen mothers are unmarried d. the children of most teen mothers grow up in poverty
A family you are working with in family treatment has completed the
family detoxification stage in Steinglass' four-stage model. What do you do next? A. Prepare them for the family stabilization stage. B. Emotional stabilization is needed when alcohol is no longer an organizing factor, so you stop your treatment with them and refer them to a psychiatrist. C. Address in the most appropriate way the family's emotional instability, which follows when alcohol is no longer the organizing factor in the family system. D. Renegotiate a family detox contract, as relapse is most likely to occur right after the detoxification stage.
The clinical interview serves all of the following purposes EXCEPT: a. providing information on a client's presenting problems. b. giving glimpses of historical factors that may be contributing to the client's condition. c. providing a framework for making a differential diagnosis to determine whether an individual suffers from aparticular mental disorder
d. providing the actual outcome of treatment.