SWK 3140 (LATEST UPDATE) REAL QUESTIONS AND
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Why is it important for social workers to know how to Facilitate task
groups: Ans✓✓✓ They help draw people together by creating effecting
teamwork in which ideas are shared, feelings are expressed, and support
is developed.
Task the social worker is responsible at the beginning of a task group
meeting: Ans✓✓✓ ® Introducing new members
® Distributing handouts not included with the material distributed
before the meeting
® Manageable agenda
® Set tone and pace of the meeting
® A brief opening statement about the purpose of the meeting
® Model expected behavior
Framework for a meeting agenda outline: Ans✓✓✓ ® Examine and
approve (with any corrections) brief, relevant minutes from the last
meeting
® Make information announcements
® Vote to include special agenda items
® Work on less controversial, easier items
® Work on difficult items
® Break
,® Work on "for discussion only" items
® Consider any special agenda items if there is sufficient time
® Summarize
® Adjourn
How to make task groups members feel involved and that their input is
important for team's purpose: Ans✓✓✓ -Emphasizing the importance of
the group's work purpose, and administrative structure by stating the
purpose of the group and explain how the group fits into the agency's
administrative and decisions-making structure.
-Assign members specific roles in the group by clarifying
responsibilities, duties, authority, and power that result from members in
the group.
-Encourage members to participate in the decision-making process of the
group.
Encouraging creative solutions during group work: Ans✓✓✓ -Indicate
that input is welcome.
-Provide feedback (sometimes can be negative or positive)
-point out group pressures that inhibit member's free discussion.
-encourage members to continue sharing unique ideas and praising
Group think: Ans✓✓✓ The tendency of group members to conform,
resulting in a narrow view of some issues. We can use this phenomenon
to examine the coercive power and the malevolent authority of cults,
gangs, terrorists, and fundamentalist groups because of the way they
, operate. Norms and a group climate that encourages free and open
discussion of ideas tend to discourage conformity to very conservative
or radical ideas. Group mind and risky shift are very similar to group
think.
Goal achievement in the middle stage of group: Ans✓✓✓ Follow the
developed set of standards, rules, or guidelines that can be used to
monitor and evaluate the performance of the group or members.
Model for effective problem solving Ans✓✓✓ 1. Identifying a problem
2. Developing goals
3. Collecting data
4. Developing plans
5. Selecting the best plan
6. Implementing the plan
Brainstorming: Ans✓✓✓ Generating the highest number of creative
ideas to determine a problem or a solution to the problem and its aspects.
Procedures: Freewheeling, no criticism, quantity is encouraged,
combining, rearranging and improving ideas(Hitchhiking)
Reverse brainstorming Ans✓✓✓ Reverse brainstorming is useful after a
variety of ideas have been generated, and members narrow the ideas to a
few top choices. Members then brainstorm about the consequences of
carrying out each alternative. After the consequences have been
VERIFIED ANSWERS |100% CORRECT | ALREADY GRADED
A
Why is it important for social workers to know how to Facilitate task
groups: Ans✓✓✓ They help draw people together by creating effecting
teamwork in which ideas are shared, feelings are expressed, and support
is developed.
Task the social worker is responsible at the beginning of a task group
meeting: Ans✓✓✓ ® Introducing new members
® Distributing handouts not included with the material distributed
before the meeting
® Manageable agenda
® Set tone and pace of the meeting
® A brief opening statement about the purpose of the meeting
® Model expected behavior
Framework for a meeting agenda outline: Ans✓✓✓ ® Examine and
approve (with any corrections) brief, relevant minutes from the last
meeting
® Make information announcements
® Vote to include special agenda items
® Work on less controversial, easier items
® Work on difficult items
® Break
,® Work on "for discussion only" items
® Consider any special agenda items if there is sufficient time
® Summarize
® Adjourn
How to make task groups members feel involved and that their input is
important for team's purpose: Ans✓✓✓ -Emphasizing the importance of
the group's work purpose, and administrative structure by stating the
purpose of the group and explain how the group fits into the agency's
administrative and decisions-making structure.
-Assign members specific roles in the group by clarifying
responsibilities, duties, authority, and power that result from members in
the group.
-Encourage members to participate in the decision-making process of the
group.
Encouraging creative solutions during group work: Ans✓✓✓ -Indicate
that input is welcome.
-Provide feedback (sometimes can be negative or positive)
-point out group pressures that inhibit member's free discussion.
-encourage members to continue sharing unique ideas and praising
Group think: Ans✓✓✓ The tendency of group members to conform,
resulting in a narrow view of some issues. We can use this phenomenon
to examine the coercive power and the malevolent authority of cults,
gangs, terrorists, and fundamentalist groups because of the way they
, operate. Norms and a group climate that encourages free and open
discussion of ideas tend to discourage conformity to very conservative
or radical ideas. Group mind and risky shift are very similar to group
think.
Goal achievement in the middle stage of group: Ans✓✓✓ Follow the
developed set of standards, rules, or guidelines that can be used to
monitor and evaluate the performance of the group or members.
Model for effective problem solving Ans✓✓✓ 1. Identifying a problem
2. Developing goals
3. Collecting data
4. Developing plans
5. Selecting the best plan
6. Implementing the plan
Brainstorming: Ans✓✓✓ Generating the highest number of creative
ideas to determine a problem or a solution to the problem and its aspects.
Procedures: Freewheeling, no criticism, quantity is encouraged,
combining, rearranging and improving ideas(Hitchhiking)
Reverse brainstorming Ans✓✓✓ Reverse brainstorming is useful after a
variety of ideas have been generated, and members narrow the ideas to a
few top choices. Members then brainstorm about the consequences of
carrying out each alternative. After the consequences have been
