As a professional or emerging professional
A. You are expected to act with confidence whenever you face a situation calling for community change.
B. You can transfer many of the skills that you use when working with individuals to a larger arena, such as community level work.
C. No current theory is available to help you make sense of the forces at play in doing community level work; they are just too complex.
D. Each level of professional practice has its own set of skills and competencies and these are only appropriate to that particular level and inappropriate for use at other levels.
Q. 2Regarding professional values it is important to recognize that
A. Although working to improve community conditions may be important, no professional code of ethics in the health and human services field requires such activity.
B. Out of concern for cultural sensitivity you should keep your professional values apart from the work that you do in communities.
C. Your actions as a professional are an acknowledgement of your commitment to your fundamental beliefs.
D. When your values conflict with your experience it is important to acknowledge that your values sometimes may need to take a back seat.
Q. 3In the Global Perspectives section you can see that
A. The International Federation of Social Workers policy on health holds that inequitable distribution of health reflects inequitable distribution of the resources human beings require for growth and development.
B. A writer in Australia believes that a majority of social workers see community development as a key practice skill that should be utilized in most social work interventions.
C. From Barbados most experts on development agree that economic growth in itself ensures a better distribution of income and services.
D. Past social work training in South Africa actively challenged the status quo of colonial apartheid providing workers with relevant skills to promote the empowerment of the majority African population.
Q. 4The most fully developed partnership between professionals and other members of the community who are dealing with conditions that need to be changed exists when
A. Professionals talk with other professionals about clients and the problems they are having.
B. Organized groups of community members talk to professionals and demand a response.
C. Organized members of the community and professionals are working together.
D. Both community members and professionals respect professional boundaries by working separately rather than working together.
Q. 5The continuum of family involvement in shaping conditions that affect families and children
A. Is most fully developed when helping parents engage in personal development by taking advantage of opportunities for personal growth.
B. Is most fully developed by partnering professionals and parents with decision making authority to take action.
C. Is most fully developed when parents provide input to agency personnel by participating as members of advisory committees.
D. Is most fully developed when parents work just with other parents without the involvement of professionals.
Q. 6Even when engaged in direct work with individuals, professional in the health and human services field can do a number of things to have a larger impact, including:
A. Helping individuals learn how to correct their own behaviors so that they do not cause others distress.
B. Bring the existence of harmful conditions affecting this client and others to the attention of those who are in a position to act on that awareness.
C. Protect client confidentiality by keeping individual clients separate.
D. Helping individual clients by encouraging them to keep a journal about the mistakes they are making.
Q. 7Regarding service or development orientations to professional activity, it is important to recognize that
A. Most social work, human service and public health workers are engaged in development work.
B. The service orientation is essentially prevention oriented and promotes capability and power.
C. The development orientation builds on strengths, identifying resources within the individual, group, or community that can be more fully cultivated and utilized.
D. Development approaches are almost totally dependent on program funding by political bodies.
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