Harvey is a licensed social worker. He has been providing service to Sally, his client, for several ...

ANS: D
PG: 172
Feedback: This scenario illustrates the duty to warn and protect. Social workers bear some responsibility to notify
potential victims and take action to safeguard people a client might harm. This duty to warn and protect, derived
from the same human rights that warrant reporting crimes against humanity, means that helping professionals
sometimes take action to protect the lives of others who are or could be in danger

ANS: B
PG: 168
Feedback: Several responsibilities may be included for social workers under the general duty of care. You must take
action to ensure the physical protection of clients you determine to be (1) imminently dangerous to other persons, (2)
imminently dangerous to themselves, or (3) so gravely disabled as to be unable to provide minimal self-care

ANS: B
PG: 163164
Feedback: Several categorical themes emerge from reviews of grievances and lawsuits filed against social workers
over the past few decades (Reamer, 2013a, 2013b, 2015). A client may believe that a social worker promised (or
guaranteed) that a certain outcome would occur as a result of the social worker's service. When the anticipated
outcome did not occur, the client may allege that the social worker failed to fulfill the terms of the contract.

ANS: C
PG: 160
Feedback: There are three common forms of malpractice: (1) malfeasancewhere a professional social worker
intentionally engages in a practice known to be harmful, (2) misfeasancewhere a professional social worker
makes a mistake in the application of an acceptable practice, and (3) nonfeasancewhere a professional social
worker fails to apply a standard, acceptable practice when the circumstances warrant such practice. The first form of
malpractice involves intent to harm, or malice, and may constitute criminal behavior, whereas the other two entail
negligence or carelessness.

ANS: B
PG: 160
Feedback: There are three common forms of malpractice: (1) malfeasancewhere a professional social worker
intentionally engages in a practice known to be harmful, (2) misfeasancewhere a professional social worker
makes a mistake in the application of an acceptable practice, and (3) nonfeasancewhere a professional social
worker fails to apply a standard, acceptable practice when the circumstances warrant such practice. The first form of
malpractice involves intent to harm, or malice, and may constitute criminal behavior, whereas the other two entail
negligence or carelessness.

A. An ultimate attribution error
B. Misfeasance
C. Nonfeasance
D. A fundamental attribution error

ANS: A
PG: 160
Feedback: There are three common forms of malpractice: (1) malfeasancewhere a professional social worker
intentionally engages in a practice known to be harmful, (2) misfeasancewhere a professional social worker
makes a mistake in the application of an acceptable practice, and (3) nonfeasancewhere a professional social
worker fails to apply a standard, acceptable practice when the circumstances warrant such practice. The first form of
malpractice involves intent to harm, or malice, and may constitute criminal behavior, whereas the other two entail
negligence or carelessness.

ANS: Students' answer will vary. Assume that you are a social worker who works with migrs seeking
asylum and refuge in North America. The refugees vary in terms of language, religion, ethnic community,
culture, dress, and customs. However, they share needs for housing, employment, education, health and
mental health care, legal assistance with immigration processes and procedures, and help with the
complexities of making the transition to a different nation and culture. Over the course of more than 10
years, you have assisted and advocated for immigrants and refugees, usually on a case-by-case basis. You
regularly visit immigrants in detention centers and coordinate volunteers to do the same. At this time, you
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hope to expand your small program by securing additional funding through private and public sources. You
would also like to see changes in state, local, and federal policies and practices to reduce obstacles and
facilitate immigration and resettlement of asylum-seeking refugees. In effect, you plan to engage in class
advocacy and policypractice with and on behalf of current and future refugees. In pursuing these goals,
you might prepare a policypractice plan with 8 steps.

ANS: Students' answers will vary. Interlocking oppression is a form of subjugation that is based upon
multiple, interacting factors (for example, a female child of minority racial and minority religious status
may be subject to discrimination and abuse in school and playground settings).

ANS: Students' answer will vary. The Council on Social Work Education indicates that the dimensions of
diversity are understood as the intersectionality of multiple factors including but not limited to age, class,
color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status,
marital status, political ideology, race, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, and tribal sovereign
status. A person could self-identify on any one or more of these dimensions and numerous others, and do
so in various ways at different times and in different contexts.