There are different approaches to achieving social welfare. Among them are:
A. The residual approach, which focuses on individuals and families and assumes that the family and the market economy are the proper sources for meeting people's needs.
B. The institutional approach, which assumes that the problems confronted are caused by those being helped and that many people in need are better off in some sort of institution.
C. The development approach, which emphasizes the delivery of services to solve one individual problem after another.
D. The random approach, which assumes than any effort to help will be good.
Q. 2There should be a connection between our theories, perceptions, analyses and strategies. For example,
A. If we believe that struggles are caused by individual behaviors alone, then remediation strategies should be our primary focus.
B. If we believe that individuals and social institutions, processes and conditions should not or cannot be changed, then problem solving and community organizing will be our primary course.
C. If we believe that human struggles are caused by social, political, or economic forces, then accommodation will be our primary orientation.
D. If we have no beliefs, we probably don't have anything to worry about.
Q. 3Working to improve community and social conditions
A. Is really the responsibility of citizens volunteering their time; it is not something that those in professions such as social work, human services and public health should interfere with.
B. Is inconsistent with professional ethics and does not fit with true professional practice.
C. Is a recently emerging field in health and human services; while there is no track record, we are beginning to make one.
D. Is not only part of the history of these professions, but this work fits with basic methods of professional practice.
Q. 4Social action approaches and community development approaches
A. Are incompatible because these approaches use very different skills and starting points for
Q. 5Four cornerstones provide the foundation of community building. Among them are:
A. Transformation, which holds that human life is only interested in immediate demands.
B. Praxiology, whose central theme is that people act purposefully to satisfy their needs and to improve their future and that change most effectively proceeds from an interactive process of reflection and action.
C. Appreciative Inquiry, which operates on the principle that in any situation there are problems that need to be fixed and that the search for problems is the most effective way for promoting action and satisfaction.
D. Community development, which relies on offering the resources and expertise of members from outside the community who can maintain objectivity in serving community members.
Q. 6When working to promote community change it is helpful to remember that
A. Standing disagreements, jealousies, and rivalries will disappear when a group or community undertakes a project.
B. When faced with a crisis a community will become very resistant to change.
C. Working relationships require communication, trust, and mutual interest.
D. Efforts to build strong relationships among members of a community or organization end up being more of a distraction than they are worth.
Q. 7In the Global Perspectives section you can see that
A. By drawing on local materials and teaching one another necessary skills residents in a small village in Mexico have used pottery making to improve the community's economy.
B. Organizers in India have discovered that if people are economically poor they are unlikely to possess any other knowledge or skills to improve their communities.
C. One of the challenges in working with the Maori culture in New Zealand is that community members have very weak family and community ties that result in their disinterest in voluntary activity.
D. Almost half of the people surveyed in Great Britain said that having money is the most important factor in making them happy. Apparently money does buy happiness.
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