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Question 1:

What is the goal of mountain-moving theories?
a) To alter distorted thinking
b) To help people to gain insight into what prevents them from moving forward
c) To explore narrative
d) To eliminate disadvantage and empower people

Question 2:

Mary Richmond, who wrote Social Diagnosis in the early 1900s, worked with which population?
a) The mentally ill
b) The poor and marginalized
c) Immigrants
d) Veterans of war

Question 3:

According to onion-peeling theories, human behaviour is a consequence of which of the following?
a) Positive and negative reinforcement
b) Socio-political influences
c) A complex layering of experiences
d) Biological processes

Question 4:

According to psychodynamic theory, the past is critical in understanding what?
a) The present
b) The future
c) Motivation
d) Oppression

Question 5:

In social work, behavioural approaches are used to help clients who are dealing with which situations?
a) Poverty
b) Homelessness
c) Elder care
d) Substance abuse

Question 6:

Which of the following approaches is strength-based?
a) Cognitive-behavioural theory
b) Story-telling theory
c) Psychodynamic theory
d) Behavioural theory

Question 7:

Which theories focus practice on participatory and/or revolutionary consciousness-raising and political action?
a) Mountain-moving theories
b) Story-telling theories
c) Faulty-engine theories
d) Onion-peeling theories

Question 8:

Which feminist perspective challenges the very core of feminist theory itself?
a) Socialist feminism
b) Radical feminism
c) Post-modern feminism
d) Liberal feminism

Question 9:

Which theoretical perspective originated with the work of Canadian social work professor Maurice Moreau?
a) Anti-oppressive practice
b) Structural social work
c) Feminist practice
d) Critical social work

Question 10:

What are two important elements of empowerment?
a) Power and control
b) Power and self-actualization
c) Partnership and control
d) Control and self-actualization

Question 11:

Concepts, the building blocks of theory, tend to have three parts: a symbol, a definition, and an eco-map.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Theorizing is a neutral process.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

One cannot ignore the role of power and privilege when considering the development of theories in social work.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Ludwig von Bertalanffy developed General Systems Theory.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

According to Uri Bronfenbrenner, the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, and the macrosystem are mutually influential in understanding individual experience.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

According to John Bowlby, if children have consistent attachment relationships, they later tend to experience anxiety and disturbances in behaviour.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Faulty-engine theories aim to actively alter behaviours in the here and now.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

From a cognitive behavioural framework, clients are viewed as dependent and unable to influence their own lives.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Liberal feminists brought forth a class analysis and highlighted the unequal distribution of power as critical components of women’s oppression.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Residential schools represent an example of colonial practice by the social work profession.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Introduction to Social Work: Chapter 2