SOWK 2100 Test Two Study Guide

In the United States what percent of children live in poverty?

20%

A student needs help with their schoolwork. Using an ecological approach what would the social worker most likely examine?

Their family, their peers, their environment.

Which one is NOT a commonly known phase of childhood development?

Early adulthood

What theory asserts that behavior is learned through socialization and influences behavior?

Social learning theory

Erikson’s theory on human development believed that a series of crisis must be overcome by advancing to the next stage, he called this theory what?

Psychosocial theory

The activities, programs, interventions, and policies that are intended to improve overall well being of children is called

Child welfare

This term typically refers to the state agency or department that is responsible for investigating child welfare in cases of abuse or neglect.

Child protective services

Services that are put into place to alleviate a crisis in a home to hopefully prevent removal of the child

Family preservation services

Acting on behalf of a child for any variety of needed resources on a micro-level by impacting policies that support child welfare and services is known as

Child advocacy

According to the US census bureau, a person is considered “older” at what age?

65

This group was born between 1946 and 1965 and made up the largest birth cohort in the history of the United States

Baby boomers

The number of elderly in the United States is expected to

Double in thirty

Scientific term for the study of the biological, physiological, and psychological aspects of growing older

Gerontology

This term is used to describe prejudice against people based on their age

Ageism

The US government entitled program that is federally funded by paying into the program and designed to prevent poverty after retirement is called

Social security

The model believes that sickness is located in the individual and it’s the physician’s job to cure it

Medical model

People in poor socioeconomic groups have

• Diminished access to medical services

• Higher mortality rates

• Higher morbidity rates

  All of the above.

Which of these groups is gonna be the least likely to have health insurance?

• Young adult

• A native born American

• Caucasians

• Elderly males

In the current US healthcare system, social workers work in conjunction with doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and other healthcare practitioners. This type of system is known as a

Interdisciplinary system

What is the health insurance for elderly receiving social security?

Medicare

What three things did the Affordable Care Act do?

• Expanded Medicaid

• Allowed children to remain on their parents health insurance until they are 26 years old

• Banned exclusions for pre-existing conditions

These types of health insurance plans are designed to eliminate costs but often limit what services doctors can provide

Manage care

This type of health insurance requires the policy holder to select from a list of doctors or service providers

PPO (Preferred Provider Organization)

The term commonly refers to short intensive services provided in an in-patient environment

Acute care

This term is used to describe a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits on or more of an individual’s daily life activities

Disability

Mental illness may affect what percentage of adults in the United States?

One in four, 25%

A condition characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, and behavior

Mental illness

What does the biopsychosocial approach consist of?

• Biological elements of an individual

• Psycho, mental elements of an individual

• Social, environmental states of an individual

Which one is more common to occur in males?

• Anxiety

• Anorexia

• Depression

• Alcoholism

Which one is more likely to occur in women?

• Anxiety

• Anorexia

• Depression

• Alcoholism

Exposure to ______ can cause psychological changes that can interfere with a child’s early development

Trauma

This movement in the mental health field promotes a strengths based approach and believes the consumer should participate in directing their own mental health care?

Recovery Model

This movement occurred due to the need to reduce the cost

Deinstitutionalization, treat them out-patient if you can.

Which of the following types of treatment are empirically based and have been proven to be effective in the treatment of mental illness?

• Cognitive behavioral

• Family psychoeducation

• Psychiatric rehabilitation

• All of the above

What percentages of individuals with diagnosed mental illness will not get treatment in any given year?

60%

Which of the following things will not be done by a school social worker?

• Providing a pupil appraisal service for children being evaluated for special Ed

• Assessment of a child’s strengths for a teacher to use in a classroom

• Providing group counseling for a parenting class

• Provide disciplinary assistance for the vice principal for children in need of corporal punishment

This term is used to describe a significant difference between intelligence and an ability to read, write, or solve mathematical equations

Learning disability

This term refers to making an effort to educate a child with a disability in a regular classroom amongst their peers

Inclusion

Removing a child from a special education classroom and into a regular education classroom is known as what

Mainstreaming

This program ensure that migrant children would have access to free healthcare

Migrant Education Program

For schools that include educational information on HIV/AIDS, research show that they had what

Increased use of condoms.

The use of this drug is attributable to the deaths of half a million people per year

Tobacco

The use of this substance kills 75,000 people a year

Alcohol

This type of drug increases the level of physiological or nervous activity in the body

Stimulants

This type of drug distorts perception and puts you in a state of psychosis

Hallucinogen

This term refers to the continued use of alcohol or drugs despite negative consequences

Substance abuse

A compulsion for the use of alcohol or drugs despite negative consequences and a psychological or physical dependance on that substance is

Addiction

The approach to the war on drugs believes that prevention programs and the proper treatment demand to be released

The Demand Side