1. Cora maintains that children need both a mother and a father because "everyone"
knows that is true. Cora is relying on _________ reliability.
Ans: Agreement
2. The scientific method conceptualizes all knowledge as ____________.
Ans: Tentative
3. The term _________ refers to the use of evidence based on observations.
Ans: Empirical
4. You feel absolutely certain that there will be pumpkin, sweet potato and pecan
pie for dessert at your family's Thanksgiving supper because that is the way it has
always been. Your knowledge is best described as being based on ___________.
Ans: Tradition
5. Vida assisted in the provision of services to a large group of individuals who had
been laid off when an urban factory closed. In addition to working with
individuals, she was responsible for maintaining lists of other employers in the area
who were hiring workers with similar skills and education. Several months later,
Vida heard from Amy, with whom she had gone to school. Amy is a social worker
in a rural community that just lost the employer of the majority of its residents
when factory closed down. Vida has happy to provide advice on helping people
find new jobs, but recognizes that, since Vida's experience was with a large urban
area in which there were numerous other employers and Amy is in a rural
community with no other factories or large employers, she will need to be
conscious of the risks of _____.
Ans: Overgeneralization
6. Anthony and Sarah disagree vehemently about what sorts of counseling services
ought to be offered to children who commit violent crimes. Anthony believes that,
since they will almost certainly be released from supervision at 18 or 21 at the
oldest, it is vital to provide intensive services. Sarah counters that the politician
who is the biggest proponent for these services has been married three times, has
,seven children all of whom live with their mothers, and is known to be far behind
in paying support for the children, who he rarely sees. What method is Sarah using
to devalue the politician's comments?
Ans: Ad hominem attacks
7. After the Supreme Court decision regarding marriage equality, opponents
argued that marriage equality opened the door to marriage to dogs and one
politician, claiming a lawyer had told him that only one person was needed for a
marriage, memorably suggested that a person could marry his or her lawnmower.
This is best described as _____.
Ans: Straw person argument
8. Wendell excitedly tells his colleague about as intervention he read about in a
professional journal, noting that it seems very promising in reducing dropout rates
among high risk youth. Leeza retorts that nothing, including paying youth to stay
in school, has ever been shown to reduce dropout rates and nothing ever well.
Once kids decide to drop out, she says, they will. Leeza is engaging in _____.
Ans: Premature closure
9. Emmett Spencer, age 23, was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 19, is neither
employed nor attending school and lives at home with his parents. Although his
family is very supportive and committed to helping Emmett, he often refuses to
take his antipsychotics and has, on more than one occasion, been hospitalized on
emergency holds when he became acutely psychotic. His family is discouraged and
wonders what could be done to help their son stay on his medication and have a
more stable life. Which method is best supported by research?
Ans: Assertive community treatment and psychoeducation
10. Your social services agency is on the state's emergency preparedness team. The
state police superintendent wants to know how your agency would respond to a
large scale incident resulting in widespread casualties. He has heard that critical
incident stress debriefing is particularly helpful. Is he right?
Ans: No, it is not effective.
11. In the evidence-based practice (EBP) model, research _____ decisions.
,Ans: Informs
12. Unlike _____ practitioners, practitioners engaged in EBP engage in critical
thinking.
Ans: Authority-based
13. According to Gambrill, because EBP is primarily a compassionate, client-
centered approach to practice, it is important to consider _____.
Ans: The values and concerns of clients
14. The first step in the EBP process is to _____.
Ans: Formulate a question to answer practice needs
15. The _____ is an international nonprofit organization that recruits researchers,
practitioners, and consumers into review groups that provide reviews of research
on the effects of health care interventions.
Ans: Cochrane Collaboration
16. When evaluating systematic reviews and meta-analyses, it is important to
consider _____.
Ans: Whether the authors of their affiliated institutions or agencies had a financial
stake in the findings.
17. Why evaluate an intervention if published studies have already provided
credible evidence of its effectiveness?
Ans: Interventions are tested with specific population groups, and the client may be
a member of a population for which it does not work.
18. Social workers often work in settings where superiors do not understand or
appreciate EBP and do not give practitioners enough time to carry out the EBP
process—especially if they follow the _____ approach in searching for evidence.
Ans: Bottom-up
, 19. EBP is a restrictive approach that downplays both professional expertise and
client values and preferences.
Ans: False
20. The existence of so-called "common factors" regarding the quality of the
relationship between the practitioner and the client makes it clear that the
intervention itself is relatively unimportant.
Ans: False
21. The first step in the research process includes _____.
Ans: Posing the research question
22. During the _____ phase, conceptual elements, including the hypothesis and
operational definitions, are explicated.
Ans: Problem formulation
23. A(n) _____ is a systematic set of interrelated statements intended to explain
something.
Ans: Theory
24. ____ help us organize our views about social work activities and may or may
not reflect a synthesis of existing theories.
Ans: Practice models
25. A(n) _____ is a mental image that symbolizes an idea, an object, an event, or a
person.
Ans: Concept
26. Characteristics or qualities that describe something or somebody are called
_____.
Ans: Attributes
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