Test Bank for Human services Questions and Correct Answers Latest Update 2025
Human services - Answers helping people meet their basic needs that for whatever reason cannot be
met without outside assistance, allowing people and communities to function at an optimum level. fills
the gap with social work
completed an associate, baccalaureate, or a master's program in human services - Answers human
service professionals, practitioners, or generalists.
primary goal of human services - Answers assist people in achieving self-sufficiency and reaching their
optimal level of functioning.
Micro level - Answers practice with individuals
Mezzo level - Answers counseling practice with groups.
macro level work - Answers giving oppressed and marginalized populations a voice and extending them
political and social power within society. by advocating for changes in laws and various policies
Disenfranchised populations - Answers a group of people often considered to lack power in society, with
no political voice. Examples include refugees, some immigrant groups, and other populations that have
experienced social exclusion
Historically oppressed and marginalized groups - Answers groups of individuals who have experienced
intergenerational oppression, often due to some defining characteristic because of race, gender, age,
social status, and so forth and are then excluded from the activities and benefits of mainstream society.
Macro level - Answers practice on a societal level.
The Council for Standards in Human Service Education (CSHSE) was established in 1979 for the purposes
of - Answers ensuring excellence in human service education at the associate, baccalaureate, and
master's levels, through the guidance and direction of educational programs offering degrees specifically
in human services.
The CSHSE requires that curriculum in a human services program cover the following standard content
areas: - Answers knowledge of the human services field through the understanding of relevant theory,
skills, and values of the profession, within the context of the history of the profession; the interaction of
human systems; the range and scope of human service delivery systems; information management;
common planning and evaluation methods; appropriate interventions and direct service delivery
systems; the development of students' skills in interpersonal communication; client-related values and
attitudes; and students' self-development.
The Council for Standards in Human Service Education - Answers is the only organization that accredits
human service educational programs and also offers continuing education opportunities for human
service professionals and educators, networking opportunities, an informational website, and various
professional publications.
,Human Services Board Certified Practitioner - Answers a voluntary professional certification
The NOHS has also been significantly influential in developing the scope and parameters of human
service professional functions and competencies, some of which include: - Answers • Understanding the
nature of human systems, including individuals, groups, organizations, communities, and society, and
how each system interacts with others.
• Understanding conditions that promote or limit optimal functioning of human systems.
• Selecting, implementing, and evaluating intervention strategies that promote growth and optimal
functioning, and that are consistent with the values of the practitioner, client, agency, and human
services profession.
• The development of process skills that enable human service professionals to plan and implement
services, including the development of verbal and oral communication skills, interpersonal relationship
skills, self-discipline, and time management skills.
The human services discipline is built upon a - Answers theoretical foundation that reflects the values of
the profession.
theoretical orientations - Answers a set of guiding principles - to guide your decision-making and
interactions with client and client systems
theoretical orientations and frameworks (also called theoretical models) - Answers make assumptions
about human nature and what motivates people to behave in certain ways under certain conditions.
General systems theory - Answers is based on the premise that various elements in an environment
interact with one another, and that this interaction (or transaction) has an impact on all elements or
components involved.
Urie Bronfenbrenner (1979) - Answers developed the ecological systems theory, which conceptualizes
an individual's environment as four expanding spheres, each with increasing levels of interaction with
the individual.
The microsystem includes one's family, the mesosystem (or mezzosystem) includes elements such as
one's neighborhood and school, the exosystem includes elements such as the state government, and the
macrosystem includes elements such as one's broader culture. - Answers
The primary principle of Bronfenbrenner's theory is that - Answers individuals can best be understood
when evaluated in the context of their relationships with the various systems in their lives, and
understanding the nature of these reciprocal relationships will aid in understanding the individual
holistically.
the ecosystems theory - Answers conceptualizes an individual's various environmental systems as
overlapping concentric circles, indicating the reciprocal exchange between a person and various
, environmental systems. Although there is no official recognition of varying levels of systems in
ecosystems theory
the person-in-environment (PIE) approach - Answers often used as a basic orientation in practice
because it encourages practitioners to evaluate individuals within the context of their environment.
Clients are evaluated on a micro level (i.e., intra- and interpersonal relationships and family dynamics)
and on a macro (or societal) level (i.e., the client is an African American male youth who lives in an urban
community with significant cultural oppression).
positive psychology movement - Answers focuses on people's strengths rather than viewing people from
a pathological perspective.
. Abraham Maslow (1954) developed a theoretical model focusing on - Answers needs motivation,
theorizing that people self-actualize naturally, but are motivated to get their most basic physiological
needs met first (e.g., food and oxygen) before they are motivated to meet their higher-level needs.
According to Maslow, most people would find it difficult to focus on higher-level needs related to self-
esteem if they were starving or had no place to sleep at night.
Maslows hierarchy of needs - Answers 1. Self actualization 2. Self esteem 3. Love and belonging 4. Safety
and security 4. Physiological needs
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory can assist human service professionals in - Answers recognizing a
client's need to prioritize more pressing needs over others, and can also explain why clients in crisis may
appear to resist attempts to help them gain insight into their situations, choosing instead to focus on
more basic needs.
The strengths perspective - Answers it encourages the practitioner to recognize and promote a client's
strengths rather than focusing on deficits. The strengths perspective also presumes clients' ability to
solve their own problems through the development of self-sufficiency skill development and self-
determination.
Dennis Saleebey - Answers primary theorist who contributed to the strengths-based practice approach
in social work. developed several guiding principles for practitioners that promote client empowerment.
one of the first theorists to apply the strengths perspective to the area of chronic mental illness, where
practitioners encourage clients to recognize and develop their own personal strengths and abilities. This
was a revolutionary approach since the prevailing approach to working with the chronically mentally ill
population was based on a medical model, involving a pathological approach to treatment where clients
were viewed as sick.
Feudalism - Answers the primary system structure in medieval Europe, where the nobility controlled the
monarchy's land in exchange for military service, while the peasants or serfs worked the land in
exchange for housing, a share of the produce, and protection. England's primary method of caring for
the poor. 11th-15th century. similar to slavery
