Roles in Social Work Exam Questions with Answers
Broker - Answer-link individuals and groups who need help with community services.
Advocate - Answer-provide leadership for collecting information, for arguing the correctness or the client's needs and requests, and for challenging the instituti...
Broker - Answer-link individuals and groups who need help with community services.
Advocate - Answer-provide leadership for collecting information, for arguing the
correctness or the client's needs and requests, and for challenging the institutions
decision not to provide services.
Activist - Answer-see institutional change - using strategies like conflict, confrontation,
and negotiation
Mediator - Answer-intervening in disputes between parties to help them find
compromises, reconcile differences, or reach mutually satisfactory agreements.
Negotiator - Answer-brings together those who are in conflict over one or more issues
and seeks to achieve bargaining and compromise to arrive at mutually acceptable
agreements
Educator - Answer-gives information to clients and teaches them adaptive skills
Initiator - Answer-calls attention to a problem or potential problem
Empowerer - Answer-A worker who helps individuals, families, groups, organizations,
and communities increase their personal, interpersonal, socioeconomic, and political
strength and influence through improving their circumstances
Coordinator - Answer-bring components together in some kind of organized manner
Researcher - Answer-studying the literature on topics of interest, evaluating the
outcomes of one's practice, assessing the merits and shortcomings of programs, and
studying community needs
Group Facilitator - Answer-A worker who serves as a leader for group activity
Public Speaker - Answer-Talk to groups to inform them of available services or argue
the need for new services.
Enabler - Answer-worker helps individuals or groups to articulate their needs, to clarify
and identify their problems, to explore resolution strategies, to select and apply a
strategy, and to develop their capacities to deal with their own problems more
effectively.
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