SW 500 Exam 1 questions with correct
answers graded A+
Mission of Social Work - ANS ✔✔- To enhance human functioning by promoting and ensuring
client access to resources (health, safety, education, and income)
- Support and empower vulnerable and marginalized populations
Role of a Social Worker - ANS ✔✔Enhance client connection with resources and promote their
functioning
Social Worker Roles - ANS ✔✔Advocate, broker, case manager/coordinator, clinician, consultant,
consultee, counselor, facilitator/expediter, integrated electronic technology provider,
mediator/arbitrator, organizational analyst, planner, policy and procedure developer, program
developer, researcher/research consumer, supervisor
Disproportionality - ANS ✔✔The underrepresentation or overrepresentation of a racial or
ethnic group compared to its percentage in the total population
EPAS Competencies 1-5 - ANS ✔✔1. Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior
2. Engage Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Practice
3. Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
4. Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice.
5. Engage in policy practice
EPAS Competencies 6-9 - ANS ✔✔[Engage, Assess, Intervene, Evaluate] individuals, families,
groups, organizations, and communities
, Clinical Social Work - ANS ✔✔Resolution and prevention of psychosocial problems experienced
by individuals, families, and groups using therapeutic practices and modalities
Micro-level - ANS ✔✔directly serves individuals, couples, and families
Mezzo-level - ANS ✔✔directly serves groups or organizations
Macro-level - ANS ✔✔social planning, community organization, and policy
Ecosystems Perspective - ANS ✔✔Envision clients within context of their social and natural
environments
Goodness-of-fit - ANS ✔✔individuals and their environment either support adaptive functioning
or create challenges
Equifinality vs. Multifinality - ANS ✔✔equifinality - multiple pathways exist to achieve the
singular outcomes
multifinality - future outcomes are not determined given a singular starting point
Strengths Perspective - ANS ✔✔- Focuses on client strengths to promote growth and change
- Counters tendency to pathologize people and their problems
Principles of Strengths Perspective - ANS ✔✔- Everyone has resources, knowledge, life
experiences, and competencies
- Trauma, abuse, illness, and adversity provide sources of challenge and opportunity
- People's capacity to grow and change are unknown; take aspirations seriously
- We best serve clients through collaboration
- Care and caretaking are essential to well-being
answers graded A+
Mission of Social Work - ANS ✔✔- To enhance human functioning by promoting and ensuring
client access to resources (health, safety, education, and income)
- Support and empower vulnerable and marginalized populations
Role of a Social Worker - ANS ✔✔Enhance client connection with resources and promote their
functioning
Social Worker Roles - ANS ✔✔Advocate, broker, case manager/coordinator, clinician, consultant,
consultee, counselor, facilitator/expediter, integrated electronic technology provider,
mediator/arbitrator, organizational analyst, planner, policy and procedure developer, program
developer, researcher/research consumer, supervisor
Disproportionality - ANS ✔✔The underrepresentation or overrepresentation of a racial or
ethnic group compared to its percentage in the total population
EPAS Competencies 1-5 - ANS ✔✔1. Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior
2. Engage Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Practice
3. Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
4. Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice.
5. Engage in policy practice
EPAS Competencies 6-9 - ANS ✔✔[Engage, Assess, Intervene, Evaluate] individuals, families,
groups, organizations, and communities
, Clinical Social Work - ANS ✔✔Resolution and prevention of psychosocial problems experienced
by individuals, families, and groups using therapeutic practices and modalities
Micro-level - ANS ✔✔directly serves individuals, couples, and families
Mezzo-level - ANS ✔✔directly serves groups or organizations
Macro-level - ANS ✔✔social planning, community organization, and policy
Ecosystems Perspective - ANS ✔✔Envision clients within context of their social and natural
environments
Goodness-of-fit - ANS ✔✔individuals and their environment either support adaptive functioning
or create challenges
Equifinality vs. Multifinality - ANS ✔✔equifinality - multiple pathways exist to achieve the
singular outcomes
multifinality - future outcomes are not determined given a singular starting point
Strengths Perspective - ANS ✔✔- Focuses on client strengths to promote growth and change
- Counters tendency to pathologize people and their problems
Principles of Strengths Perspective - ANS ✔✔- Everyone has resources, knowledge, life
experiences, and competencies
- Trauma, abuse, illness, and adversity provide sources of challenge and opportunity
- People's capacity to grow and change are unknown; take aspirations seriously
- We best serve clients through collaboration
- Care and caretaking are essential to well-being
