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LMSW exam prepstrengths ___ and are ___ - answervary from situation to situation adn are contextual
there is or isnt a systematic assessment of all the strenghts and resources available to
meet clients goals - answerIS a systematic assessment
what are 3 methods to enhance strenghts? - answer1.collaboration and partnerhisp
between SW and client
2. environmental modification
3. advocacy
what 4 traits are associated with resiliency? - answer1.social competence (ability to
form close relationships)
2.autonomy (sense of self identity and self efficacy)
3. problem solving (ability to think critically and creatively)
4.sense of purpose and bleief in the future (aspirations and goals)
what are 3 protective factors in a persons environment that are impt for eliciting and
fostering resilience? - answer1. caring reslationships (presence of one caring and
supportive person for love and trust andn connectedness)
2. high expectations that convey a belief that a person can rise to the challenge
(respect, challenge, strucutre)
3. opportunities to participate and contribute (belonging, power, meaning)
what 3 theories and approaches in SW does reliency concept have in common? -
answer1. ecological approach
2. models of human development
3. strengths approach
with a program aimed at enhancing resiliency, what is the most impt aspect? -
answerthe PROCESS (creating opportunites to experience connection, belonging, trust,
meaning) NOT the content
__ studies are designed to determien the way in which something is associated with
something else - answercorrelational studies
__ studies the investigator manipulates and controls at least 1 IV and boserves how this
affects the DV - answerexperimental studies
the __ is the variable manipulated or controlled by the experimenter - answerIV
,the ___ is the avirable affected by the IV - answerDV
the __ is often the IV and the __ is often the DV - answertreatment is IV and outcome is
DV
a __ design compares some variable before and after treatment - answerprepost design
(AB design)
a __ design has baseline, treatment, adn withdrawl of treatment - answerreversal
design (ABA)
in a crisis, you would or would not delay treatment in order to obtain baseline data? -
answerwould not (some cases it would be unethical to withdraw treatment)
__ asks, are we measuring waht we aret rying to measure? - answervalidity
___ asks can you get hte same answer repeatedly? - answerreliability
___ ___ asks can teh results be generalized to other groups, settings or tiems? -
answerexternal validity
__ asks did the experimental treatments make a difference in this isntancesa? -
answerinternal validity
__ asks is the content of this measure representative of the content of the property
being measured? - answercontent validity
___ asks to what extent do explanatory concepts or qualities fit with what is known
about hte subject matter? - answerconstruct validity
__ asks to what degree does the variation in test scores predict variation in some other
measure - answerpredictive validity
__ asks does the test focus directly on the behavior of the kind which we are interested?
- answerface validity
__ stats describe the date - answerdescriptive
__ stats generalizations are made about a population by studying a subset of that
population - answerinferential stats
__, ___, and __ are examples of inferential stats tests - answerANOVA, t-test, chi
square
__ classifies objects into categories - answernominal scale (sex, race, color)
,__ logical ordering of categories - answerordinal scale
__ differences between various levels of the categories on any part with equal
interventals but there's no zero - answerinterval scale
equal differences in a true zero - answerratio
__ is the most frequent score - answermode
the _ is the point in the middle - answermedian
__ is the arithmetic average - answermean
__ research is done in the social sciences and concerns human phenomena so as to
better understand them - answerpure research (often called basic research)
___ research is conducted so as to do something better or more efficiently -
answerapplied research
which happened more recently in social work, applied or pure research? -
answerapplied researched only started in the late 1940s in social work
__ research may be the single most appropriate model of research for social work
because it consists of methods directed explicitly toward the analysis, development, and
evaluation of the very technical means by which social work objectives are achieved -
answerdevelopmental research
___ research begins with an examination of existing research regarding the methods
that have been employed to deal with the problem of interest; ideas about interventions
may also be gained from an examination fo existing practices - answerdevelopmental
research
what must happen in order to determine the credibility of a piece of research? -
answermust know how to evaluate each stage
what are the 3 main stages in social work research? - answer1. problem formulation
( state and specify problem or hypothesis e.g.)
2.research measurement design (how data will be collected; which instruments; how
analyzed; relate to original problem formulation)
3. data analysis (e.g. inferential statistical tests are done)
with community organization, emphasis is on __ and __ factors and stresses __ and
___ reform - answersocial and enviornmental factors; stresses prevention and is
concerned with socia lreform
, what are the two major processes of community organization? - answer1. planning
(identifying problems, diagnosisng causes, creating solutions)
2. organizing (developing constiutencies and deriving stratgies necessary to affect
action)
with community organizing the focus is on __ not __ needs - answersocial not
psychological
what is an assumption of community organization? - answerparticipation must be in a
democratic format and community member must learn the appropriate skills of
democratic functioning
__ is neighborhood work aimed at improving the quality of community life through the
participation of a broad spectrum of people at the local level; this is associated with
democratic procedures and majority rules in determining decisions; people in power
need education about community problems - answerlocality development
__ __ emphasizes the rational study of a community's problem as the basis of
determining a solution; power elite in community are not considered the enemy but
often part of the process of solving the problem; power elite can be a sponsor or
employer - answersocial planning
__ __ = the enemy are those in the community who control community resources;
victims are the disadvantaged and oppressed; the community cant solve hte problem
through discussion or fact gathering but ONLY through direct action (e.g., rent strike)
against the power elite - answersocial action
social action believes that __ __ is the only way to force those in power to relinquish
some resources and power - answerdirect action
who was the best known social action practitioner? - answerSaul Alinsky
with __ __ you work with other organizations on behalf of the disadvantaged; worker's
role is to develop coalitions of various groups to pressure for change; by CHANGING
LAWS, workers may be able to overcome ccommmunity resistance to local problems -
answersocial reform
with __ you include those who oppose development or change in your group -
answercooptation
__ prevention is preventing a problem before its initial onset and is aimed at reducing
the prevalence of a problem by reducing the incidence of new caes - answerprimary
prevention
__ prevention is to treat SYMPTOMS and to prevent recurrence or exacerbation of an
already diagnosed problem - answersecondary prevention
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