HSCO 500 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTION WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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HSCO 500 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTION WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Although the human services field can include a variety of job titles and careers, they all have the following in common:
helping people meet their basic physical and emotional needs that for whatever reason cannot be met without outside assi...
HSCO 500 PRACTICE EXAM
QUESTION WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2024-2025
Although the human services field can include a variety of job titles and careers,
they all have the following in common:
helping people meet their basic physical and emotional needs that for whatever reason
cannot be met without outside assistance
Some individuals within society may need human services because they
-do not have a supportive family.
-do not have supportive friends.
-suffer from mental illness.
Lack of friends, mental illness, poverty, lack of education and lack of employment
skills are examples of
the reason why some individuals are in need of human services.
The term "generalist" in describing a human service professional implies
that the knowledge base is broad and varied.
Marginalized populations include members of society who are
in some way experiencing problems related to various social or systemic issues within
society
Members of society who are displaced due to poverty, racial disparity, or some
other characteristic that reduces their status in society and makes them
vulnerable to exploitation and denial of opportunities are often referred to as
marginalized populations
A human services professional is a generic term for people who hold
paraprofessional job in settings such as
-group homes
-halfway houses
-family, child and youth service agencies
The chief goal of the human service professional is to
,support individuals as well as communities function at their maximum potential in
overcoming personal and social barriers as effectively as possible in the major domains
of living.
Which term implies the broad and varied knowledge base of the human services
profession?
generalist
A conceptual framework that is most commonly associated with human services
practice is one that
evaluates the ways in which individuals manage the stressors of life.
The Microsystem includes
individuals
The Mesosystem (or Mezzosystem) includes which of the following?
-Groups
-Neighborhoods
-Schools
The Exosystem includes
the government
The Macrosystem includes
the culture at large
Urie Bronfenbrenner's believed that individuals could best be understood when
seen in the context of their relationship with
various systems in their lives.
According to Ecosystems theory overlapping concentric circles represent the
reciprocal exchange between a person and environmental systems.
The idea that 'lower level needs must be met before an individual can achieve
higher level needs' describes which of the following?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Many policy experts frame the feudal system as
a governmentally imposed form of social equality.
The commonly held societal belief during medieval times was that poverty was
an unnecessary component of society.
, 3) During the early part of the Middle Ages in England the church was responsible
for poor relief, which was facilitated through
c) mandatory taxes or compulsory tithing administered by Catholic bishops
4) The need for a complete overhaul of the social welfare policy in England was
prompted by which of the following?
a) Individuals moving to the city to work in factories
b) The decline of the feudal system.
c) The diminishing influence of the church in matters of social care.
5) Vagrants were often considered
d) the unworthy poor.
6) Pregnant women, individuals who were extremely ill and unable to work, or any
person over the age of sixty
a) were often considered the worthy poor
b) were treated more leniently, including given governmental authorization to beg
7) The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601
b) were an organized merging of England's earlier social welfare legislation
8) Outdoor relief refers to assistance provided
c) poor relief should be handled at the local level.
9) Which among the following is a driving principle of the English Poor Laws of
1601
c) poor relief should be handled at the local level.
10) According to Calvinist theology, behaviors that became indicators of one's
eternal fate included
a) hard work and good moral conduct.
11) The reason why Max Weber's analysis of Calvinism and the Protestant ethic is
important when examining the history of social welfare policy is because of their
influence on
d) society's cultural mores related to poverty.
12) Social Darwinism posited that
a) human competitiveness for limited resources is necessary in securing the survival of
the "fittest" members of society.
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