MSW 525 Final Exam questions with
verified answers already passed
- correct answer ✔✔- Case law: the focus of this text, involves laws made by the judiciary.
What is a Virtual Boundary? - correct answer ✔✔A ______________________ is the limits
social workers place to guide their social media use—to create intentional online personas and
about the effects of social media use in the intermingling of personal and professional lives.
Professional Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Provides guidance that enables a social worker to
transform professional values into professional practice activities
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔evidence to support your method/approach-
lends credibility to what you are doing
Self-determination - correct answer ✔✔a person's right to make his or her own decisions.
Cause Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Aimed at confronting an issue of importance to a group.
Case Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Aimed at obtaining resources or services for an individual
or group of clients and promotes the responsiveness of policies to a group of people.
Whistle blowing - correct answer ✔✔is considered a form of advocacy as it is aimed at
protecting clients, confronting abusive services or powers, and improving responsiveness to
public & community. This comes with risk of retribution despite federal protections.
, HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - correct answer ✔✔Protects all
individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by a covered entity or its
business associates in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral.
Racial Profiling - correct answer ✔✔the act of suspecting or targeting a person of a certain race
on the basis of observed or assumed characteristics or behavior of a racial or ethnic group,
rather than on individual suspicion. Racial profiling, however, isn't limited only to an individuals
race, but can also be based on the individual's ethnicity, religion, or national origin.
Search & Seizure - correct answer ✔✔procedure used in many civil law and common law legal
systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has
been committed, commence a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant
evidence found in connection to the crime.
Civil Commitment - correct answer ✔✔Civil commitment is involuntary commitment, which
accounts for 12% of psychiatric hospitalizations. Requires clear and convincing evidence that the
person in question should be hospitalized without their consent.
Competency to Stand trial - correct answer ✔✔Social workers may have to assess defendants
for competency to stand trial. It is unfair to prosecute people who cannot understand or
meaningfully participate in the proceedings against them. The key question in competency is
the clients mental state at the time of trial.
Insanity Defense - correct answer ✔✔The insanity defense looks at the defendants mental state
at the time the crime was committed. People are not held criminally responsible if they are
incapable of forming the required intent.
Affirmative Action - correct answer ✔✔Policies or practices designed to compensate for a
history of discrimination against women and racial minorities
Guardian at litem - correct answer ✔✔A "guardian ad litem" (GAL) is a person the court
appoints to investigate what solutions would be in the "best interests of a child."
verified answers already passed
- correct answer ✔✔- Case law: the focus of this text, involves laws made by the judiciary.
What is a Virtual Boundary? - correct answer ✔✔A ______________________ is the limits
social workers place to guide their social media use—to create intentional online personas and
about the effects of social media use in the intermingling of personal and professional lives.
Professional Ethics - correct answer ✔✔Provides guidance that enables a social worker to
transform professional values into professional practice activities
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔evidence to support your method/approach-
lends credibility to what you are doing
Self-determination - correct answer ✔✔a person's right to make his or her own decisions.
Cause Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Aimed at confronting an issue of importance to a group.
Case Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔Aimed at obtaining resources or services for an individual
or group of clients and promotes the responsiveness of policies to a group of people.
Whistle blowing - correct answer ✔✔is considered a form of advocacy as it is aimed at
protecting clients, confronting abusive services or powers, and improving responsiveness to
public & community. This comes with risk of retribution despite federal protections.
, HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - correct answer ✔✔Protects all
individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by a covered entity or its
business associates in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral.
Racial Profiling - correct answer ✔✔the act of suspecting or targeting a person of a certain race
on the basis of observed or assumed characteristics or behavior of a racial or ethnic group,
rather than on individual suspicion. Racial profiling, however, isn't limited only to an individuals
race, but can also be based on the individual's ethnicity, religion, or national origin.
Search & Seizure - correct answer ✔✔procedure used in many civil law and common law legal
systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has
been committed, commence a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant
evidence found in connection to the crime.
Civil Commitment - correct answer ✔✔Civil commitment is involuntary commitment, which
accounts for 12% of psychiatric hospitalizations. Requires clear and convincing evidence that the
person in question should be hospitalized without their consent.
Competency to Stand trial - correct answer ✔✔Social workers may have to assess defendants
for competency to stand trial. It is unfair to prosecute people who cannot understand or
meaningfully participate in the proceedings against them. The key question in competency is
the clients mental state at the time of trial.
Insanity Defense - correct answer ✔✔The insanity defense looks at the defendants mental state
at the time the crime was committed. People are not held criminally responsible if they are
incapable of forming the required intent.
Affirmative Action - correct answer ✔✔Policies or practices designed to compensate for a
history of discrimination against women and racial minorities
Guardian at litem - correct answer ✔✔A "guardian ad litem" (GAL) is a person the court
appoints to investigate what solutions would be in the "best interests of a child."
