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the __ __ assumes that people have the capacity to grow, change and adapt,
that they have the knowledge that is importance in deifying and solving their
problems (own experts) and they're resilient - -strengths perspective
-strengths ___ and are ___ - -vary from situation to situation and are
contextual
-the strength perspective focuses on what? - -understanding clients or
families on the basis of their strengths and resources (internal and external)
and mobilizing the resources to improve client's situation
-there is or isn't a systematic assessment of all the strengths and resources
available to meet clients goals - -IS a systematic assessment
-what are 3 methods to enhance strengths? - -1.collaboration and
partnerhisp between SW and client
2. environmental modification
3. advocacy
-T/F most kids that are born into severely adverse situations grow up to be
healthy and competent adults - -true
-T/F not everyone is born with an innate capacity for resilience - -FALSE --
we all are born with that innate capacity for resilience
-what 4 traits are associated with resiliency? - -1.social competence (ability
to form close relationships)
2.autonomy (sense of self identity and self efficacy)
3. problem solving (ability to think critically and creatively)
4.sense of purpose and belief in the future (aspirations and goals)
-what are 3 protective factors in a persons environment that are important
for eliciting and fostering resilience? - -1. caring relationships (presence of
one caring and supportive person for love and trust and connectedness)
2. high expectations that convey a belief that a person can rise to the
challenge (respect, challenge, structure)
3. opportunities to participate and contribute (belonging, power, meaning)
-what 3 theories and approaches in SW does resiliency concept have in
common? - -1. ecological approach
,2. models of human development
3. strengths approach
-with a program aimed at enhancing resiliency, what is the most important
aspect? - -the PROCESS (creating opportunities to experience connection,
belonging, trust, meaning) NOT the content
-research always starts with what? - -a problem
-__ studies purpose is to gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve
new insights into it, often in order to formulate a more precise research
problem or develop a hypothesis - -exploratory studies or formulative
studies
-__ studies describe accurately the characteristsics of a particular indiviudal,
situation or group; e.g., narrative case studies - -descriptive studies
-__ studies are designed to determien the way in which something is
associated with something else - -correlational studies
-__ studies the investigator manipulates and controls at least 1 IV and
boserves how this affects the DV - -experimental studies
-the __ is the variable manipulated or controlled by the experimenter - -IV
-the ___ is the avirable affected by the IV - -DV
-the __ is often the IV and the __ is often the DV - -treatment is IV and
outcome is DV
-a __ design compares some variable before and after treatment - -prepost
design (AB design)
-a __ design has baseline, treatment, adn withdrawl of treatment - -reversal
design (ABA)
-in a crisis, you would or would not delay treatment in order to obtain
baseline data? - -would not (some cases it would be unethical to withdraw
treatment)
-dependability, stability, constency adn predictability are synonyms for
what/ - -reliability
-accuracy is a synonym for what? - -validity
-__ asks, are we measuring waht we aret rying to measure? - -validity
,-___ asks can you get hte same answer repeatedly? - -reliability
-___ ___ asks can teh results be generalized to other groups, settings or
tiems? - -external validity
-__ asks did the experimental treatments make a difference in this
isntancesa? - -internal validity
-__ asks is the content of this measure representative of the content of the
property being measured? - -content validity
-___ asks to what extent do explanatory concepts or qualities fit with what is
known about hte subject matter? - -construct validity
-__ asks to what degree does the variation in test scores predict variation in
some other measure - -predictive validity
-__ asks does the test focus directly on the behavior of the kind which we
are interested? - -face validity
-__ stats describe the date - -descriptive
-__ stats generalizations are made about a population by studying a subset
of that population - -inferential stats
-__, ___, and __ are examples of inferential stats tests - -ANOVA, t-test, chi
square
-__ classifies objects into categories - -nominal scale (sex, race, color)
-__ logical ordering of categories - -ordinal scale
-__ differences between various levels of the categories on any part with
equal interventals but there's no zero - -interval scale
-equal differences in a true zero - -ratio
-__ is the most frequent score - -mode
-the _ is the point in the middle - -median
-__ is the arithmetic average - -mean
, -__ research is done in the social sciences and concerns human phenomena
so as to better understand them - -pure research (often called basic
research)
-___ research is conducted so as to do something better or more efficiently -
-applied research
-which happened more recently in social work, applied or pure research? - -
applied researched only started in the late 1940s in social work
-__ research may be the single most appropriate model of research for social
work because it consists of methods directed explicitly toward the analysis,
development, and evaluation of the very technical means by which social
work objectives are achieved - -developmental research
-___ research begins with an examination of existing research regarding the
methods that have been employed to deal with the problem of interest;
ideas about interventions may also be gained from an examination fo
existing practices - -developmental research
-what must happen in order to determine the credibility of a piece of
resarch? - -must know how to evaluate each stage
-what are the 3 main stages in social work research? - -1. problem
formulation ( state and specify problem or hypothesis e.g.)
2.research measurement design (how data will be collected; which
instruments; how analyzed; relate to original problem formulation)
3. data analysis (e.g. inferential statistical tests are done)
-with community organization, emphasis is on __ and __ factors and stresses
__ and ___ reform - -social and enviornmental factors; stresses prevention
and is concerned with socia lreform
-what are the two major processes of community organization? - -1.
planning (identifying problems, diagnosisng causes, creating solutions)
2. organizing (developing constiutencies and deriving stratgies necessary to
affect action)
-with community organizing the focus is on __ not __ needs - -social not
psychological
-what is an assumption of community organization? - -participation must be
in a democratic format and community member must learn the appropriate
skills of democratic functioning
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