Keisha is a social work administrator and is responsible for evaluating interventions. She believes
that the strengths model has relevance, but that it may be ineffective as a sole paradigm for treating
clients with developmental disabilities.
She wants to conduct a needs assessment to gather more
information, but unfortunately does not have the necessary funding. What can Keisha do?
a) Literature review
b) Obtain stakeholder feedback
c) Ascertain physical barriers
d) Ascertain psychological barriers
Erica wants to conduct a single systems design for assessing the effectiveness of a solution-focused
intervention on treating an eating disorder.
She is currently obtaining baseline measurements in the
form of daily caloric intakes for a research participant. Erica hopes that the solution-focused
intervention will help the research participant maintain healthy nutritional habits. What type of
research methodology is a single systems design?
a) Pre-experimental
b) Quasi-experimental
c) Experimental
d) Cross-sectional
In social work research it may be difficult to study causal relationships. As an applied professional,
ethics and values tend make it difficult to withhold treatments, which in-turn make it difficult to form
control groups.
Which item is not a condition that must be met before a causal relationship can be
claimed?
a) Independent variable precedes the dependent variable in time
b) Measures are valid and reliable
c) Statistical association between the independent and dependent variable
d) Statistical association is due to the independent variable and not an extraneous variable(s)
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