Define and give an example of each of the following: categorical disability, functional disability, and developmental disability.
What will be an ideal response?
Categorical disabilities involve significant sensory impairment or mental illness and developmental delays (e.g., traumatic brain injury resulting in slow cognitive processing and vision impairment). Functional disabilities limit a person's ability to perform physical activities but can often be ameliorated with technology or assistive devices (e.g., loss of both legs in a car accident). A developmental disability is a severe chronic disability that manifests before age 22 and is likely to continue indefinitely (e.g., autism).
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Which of the following statements is FALSE about older women as compared to older men?
a. Older women live longer than older men. b. Older women are more likely to live alone, whereas older men are more likely to live with a spouse. c. Older women are less likely to be institutionalized than older men. d. Older women have more chronic disabilities than older men.
Which of the following statements is true about research utilization and social work practice: A) Whether or not social work practitioners bother to keep abreast of research findings on which interventions are the most effective for their clients has no bearing on how professionally ethical those social workers are
B) Whether or not social work practitioners bother to keep abreast of research findings on which interventions are the most effective for their clients has no bearing on how compassionate those social workers are. C) Whether or not social work practitioners bother to keep abreast of research findings on which interventions are the most effective for their clients has no bearing on social work values. D) ?All of the above are true. E) None of the above is true.
Social workers a. are fundamentally apolitical. b. rarely engage in policy practice by means of policy advocacy combined withsocial action
c. become most heavily involved in politics and the political process in an effortto seek justice for the oppressed. d. realize that even if they change governmental policies, there is no force oflaw behind them..
Why is retooling social work and engineering needed?
a. To improve care, protection, and services b. To improve health care for the underserved, uninsured, and at-risk groups c. To bolster labor force and to address the American Academy of Social Work Grand Challenge d. To improve access to the labor force and technology