Test 6 Questions 1 – 10.

1. An ultimate goal of Title XX of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1974 was:
1. To increase the federal government’s role in developing funding for personal social services programs.
2. To make it easier for needy people to receive welfare payments
3. To provide for low-income people in a more economical way

D.    To increase the federal government’s role in determining how funds are allocated to social services.

2. You are leading a therapy group. In the second meeting, the group members are quiet. They don’t interact with each other and some members seem wary and apprehensive. The members want you to take charge. You should:
1. Lead the discussion and allow the group members to remain quiet.
2. Express your disappointment about their lack of participation because this will encourage the norm of open communication.
3. Provide information and ask questions.
4. Interpret the members’ resistance using simple and direct language.

3. A client currently has major depression, and recently had the following symptoms for four days: An abnormally elevated mood accompanied by psychomotor agitation, loud and rapid speech, and decreased need for sleep. Based on this information, the most likely diagnosis is:
1. Bipolar I Disorder, most recent episode depressed
2. Bipolar I Disorder, most recent episode mixed
3. Bipolar I Disorder, most recent episode hypomanic

D.   Bipolar II Disorder

4. The three steps involved when developing a training program are, in order:

1. Needs analysis, program design, program evaluation
2. Program design, program evaluation, needs analysis
3. Program design, needs analysis, programmed instruction
4. Needs analysis, program design, performance appraisal

5. Organization Development is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Concern for the well-being of workers
2. An emphasis on relationship building and group decision -making
3. An emphasis on immediate and concrete change
4. Involvement of the entire organization, including top management.

6. A supervisor’s ratings of her employees reflect a “halo effect.” This means that the supervisor rates:

1. All employees identical to the way she rates the first employee
2. All employees on the basis of their physical attractiveness
3. An employee the same on all dimensions of job performance
4. An employee very high on all dimensions of job performance.

7. The management philosophy in an organization reflects a “Theory Y” approach. Consequently, you would expect to find which of the following in the organization:

1. Highly cohesive and effective work groups
2. A high degree of employee self-direction and self-control
3. The use of pay and bonuses as the primary mechanisms of reward
4. Promotion and selection based on technical competence.

8. A manager with a “Theory X” philosophy would be most likely to say that her role as a manager: 

1. Is to help employees identify and achieve their common goals and objectives
2. Is to direct and control employees in order to achieve organizational goals
3. Varies, depending on factors related to the organization’s environment
4. Varies, depending on factors related to the employees themselves.

9. Subordinates are most likely to continue working in the absence of their leader and to have a good relationship with their leader when the leader is:
1. Autocratic
2. Laissez-faire
3. Democratic
4. Amorphous

10. You develop a program for pre-school children who are at risk for learning disabilities. This is an example of:

1. Primary prevention
2. Secondary prevention
3. Tertiary prevention
4. Crisis intervention.


10. You set up a program for inmates who are leaving prison, in order to lower recidivism rates. This is an example of:
1. Primary prevention
2. Secondary prevention
3. Tertiary prevention
4. Crisis intervention.

12. “Planning” is a systematic process used to manage social change in a reational way. When using the planning model to develop a policy or design a program, the first step is to:
1. Identify the goals and objectives
2. Solicit support form the community
3. Determine what resources are available
4. Recognize and define the target problem.

13. Which of the following is the best definition of “live supervision”:
1. A supervisor observes an intern at work and is available to give advise and feedback during a session
2. A supervisor observes an intern from behind a one-way mirror
3. A supervisor models clinical skills by serving as a co-therapist in the session
4. A supervisor videotapes a session and meets afterwards with the intern to evaluate the intern’s work.

14. Social workers engaged in community development do NOT do which of the following:

A.       seek to empower community residents

B.        seek to develop indigenous leadership

C.       Promote more opportunity in the community

D.       Try to resolve problems on behalf of the community.

15.     A social worker tells his supervisor that he had sex with a client. What should the supervisor do:

A.       reprimand and educate the social worker and take him off the case

B.       report the social worker to the state regulatory board without revealing the client’s name

C.       report the social worker to the state regulatory board and include the client’s name so that the board can contact her for additional information

D.       get more information since it is possible that the sex may have been consensual.

16.     In social work, which of the following is considered to be a major purpose of program evaluation:

A.       determining whether social casework is effective

B.       motivating staff to work effectively

C.       identifying which programs should be closed

D.       collecting information to enhance social service accountability.

17.     What is the primary function of an agency’s Board of Directors:

A.       Staff development

B.       Establishing policies and goals for the agency and overseeing their implementations

C.       Achieving the agency’s goals

D.       Developing and evaluating the agency’s programs

18.     Which of the following is associated with the “informal organization”?

A.       the human relations model

B.       classical management

C.       committees and other groups formed by the organization

D.       an emphasis on worker’s technical competence.

19.     In an organization, a task group leader should do which of the following:

A.       ask task group participant to plan the meetings

B.       never interfere with the group’s process

C.       plan and facilitate the meetings

D.       assume ultimate responsibility for the conduct of group members in meetings.

20.     A “summative” program evaluation:

A.       Cannot be generalized to other programs

B.       Is primarily used to determine how an existing program should be modified

C.       Evaluates an existing program and compares it to other programs

D.       Evaluates all aspects of a program s it is being developed.