MSW Comp Exam – Master of Social Work Comprehensive Exam Study Guide (Full Program
Review and Exam Preparation Material)
cultural humility - correct answer ✔✔incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and
self-critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-clinician dynamic and to
developing mutually beneficial and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf of
individuals and defined populations
Asexual - correct answer ✔✔having no sexual attraction to others
Pansexual - correct answer ✔✔not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender,
or gender identity.
Economic Justice - correct answer ✔✔A set of moral principles for building economic
institutions; the goal is to create an opportunity for each person to create dignified, productive,
and creative life.
Assimilation - correct answer ✔✔Pressuring members of minority groups to drop their culture
and differences & become mirror of dominant culture
internalized oppression - correct answer ✔✔Internalizing negative judgments of being "the
other," leading to self-hatred, depression, despair, and self-abuse
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - correct answer ✔✔Adopted by the UN General
Assembly in 1948, this established human rights to be protected. Ex: Equal pay for equal work,
etc.
envrionmental justice - correct answer ✔✔Fair treatment & meaningful involvement of all
people regardless of race/ color/ national origin/ income with respect to development...
enforcement of environmental law.
,Ex: Having clean water, ensuring community has safety hazards.
Social Justice - correct answer ✔✔ensuring that essential human needs are met and that
essential human rights are protected for all people
Macro-Level Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on social change in terms of social welfare
policy & community change.
Engage in an informed discussion of the universal aspects of human rights and environmental
justice to identify sustainable solutions to the environmental crisis facing humanity.
COMPETENCY 3
Micro level advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on individual and family therapy.
Advocacy is based on self-determination and would ideally occur with clients and not simply for
them.
Includes 3 pillars of sw
1. practice-oppression
2. empowerment
3. strength perspective
COMPETENCY 3
What are the 3 Pillars of Social work practice on a micro level advocacy? - correct answer ✔✔1.
practice-oppression
,2. empowerment
3. strength perspective- are related to having access to resources and being treated with dignity.
COMPETENCY 3
experimental research design - correct answer ✔✔a research design in which an experimental
group is administered a treatment and the outcome is compared with a control group that does
not receive the treatment
Randomized & most rigorous
Types of Research:
Quasi-Experimental - correct answer ✔✔Randomization is not practical or feasible. Includes
interventions & comparison groups but assignment to group is nonrandom.
Types of Research:
Single Subject - correct answer ✔✔Determines whether an intervention has the intended
impact on a client or many clients who form a group. Most common are: pre & post tests, single
care student. Ex: ABA, AB
internal validity - correct answer ✔✔addresses the extent to which causal inferences can be
made about the intervention and targeted behavior.
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, external validity - correct answer ✔✔How generalizable those inferences are to the general
population.
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Qualitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Usually involved collecting info. through unstructured
interviews, observations, and/ or focus groups.
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Quantitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Mainly collects data through input of responses to
research instruments containing questionnaires, online/ mail surveys, phone surveys or
interviews.
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secondary data - correct answer ✔✔information that has already been collected for other
purposes, already exists somewhere.
Can save $$ and risky as reliability & ethics of data collection can be unknown!
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What is the FLAIR model? - correct answer ✔✔FORMULATE= answerable question based on
client or organizational need.
LOCATE= best available to answer the question
Review and Exam Preparation Material)
cultural humility - correct answer ✔✔incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and
self-critique, to redressing the power imbalances in the patient-clinician dynamic and to
developing mutually beneficial and advocacy partnerships with communities on behalf of
individuals and defined populations
Asexual - correct answer ✔✔having no sexual attraction to others
Pansexual - correct answer ✔✔not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender,
or gender identity.
Economic Justice - correct answer ✔✔A set of moral principles for building economic
institutions; the goal is to create an opportunity for each person to create dignified, productive,
and creative life.
Assimilation - correct answer ✔✔Pressuring members of minority groups to drop their culture
and differences & become mirror of dominant culture
internalized oppression - correct answer ✔✔Internalizing negative judgments of being "the
other," leading to self-hatred, depression, despair, and self-abuse
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - correct answer ✔✔Adopted by the UN General
Assembly in 1948, this established human rights to be protected. Ex: Equal pay for equal work,
etc.
envrionmental justice - correct answer ✔✔Fair treatment & meaningful involvement of all
people regardless of race/ color/ national origin/ income with respect to development...
enforcement of environmental law.
,Ex: Having clean water, ensuring community has safety hazards.
Social Justice - correct answer ✔✔ensuring that essential human needs are met and that
essential human rights are protected for all people
Macro-Level Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on social change in terms of social welfare
policy & community change.
Engage in an informed discussion of the universal aspects of human rights and environmental
justice to identify sustainable solutions to the environmental crisis facing humanity.
COMPETENCY 3
Micro level advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on individual and family therapy.
Advocacy is based on self-determination and would ideally occur with clients and not simply for
them.
Includes 3 pillars of sw
1. practice-oppression
2. empowerment
3. strength perspective
COMPETENCY 3
What are the 3 Pillars of Social work practice on a micro level advocacy? - correct answer ✔✔1.
practice-oppression
,2. empowerment
3. strength perspective- are related to having access to resources and being treated with dignity.
COMPETENCY 3
experimental research design - correct answer ✔✔a research design in which an experimental
group is administered a treatment and the outcome is compared with a control group that does
not receive the treatment
Randomized & most rigorous
Types of Research:
Quasi-Experimental - correct answer ✔✔Randomization is not practical or feasible. Includes
interventions & comparison groups but assignment to group is nonrandom.
Types of Research:
Single Subject - correct answer ✔✔Determines whether an intervention has the intended
impact on a client or many clients who form a group. Most common are: pre & post tests, single
care student. Ex: ABA, AB
internal validity - correct answer ✔✔addresses the extent to which causal inferences can be
made about the intervention and targeted behavior.
PAGE 257
, external validity - correct answer ✔✔How generalizable those inferences are to the general
population.
PAGE 257
Qualitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Usually involved collecting info. through unstructured
interviews, observations, and/ or focus groups.
PAGE 257
Quantitative Research - correct answer ✔✔Mainly collects data through input of responses to
research instruments containing questionnaires, online/ mail surveys, phone surveys or
interviews.
PAGE 257
secondary data - correct answer ✔✔information that has already been collected for other
purposes, already exists somewhere.
Can save $$ and risky as reliability & ethics of data collection can be unknown!
PAGE 257
What is the FLAIR model? - correct answer ✔✔FORMULATE= answerable question based on
client or organizational need.
LOCATE= best available to answer the question
