Chapter 13: Approaches to Achieving Different Purposes

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The process of resocialization is relevant to individuals who ______.

a. experience normal developmental transitions in social needs

b. experience severe difficulties with stages of life development

c. have poor social skills relative to their age

d. have disabilities which impact their social development

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Typology of Group Purposes

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which of the following describes a link between identity development and skill attainment?

a. Once they have clarified their identity, individuals may lack particular skills necessary to help them fulfil purposes related to their identity.

b. There are particular skills that individuals require in order to fully develop their identity.

c. As individuals develop their identities, they naturally begin to develop the skills necessary to fulfil related purposes.

d. The attainment of any new skills requires the emergence of a new identity in the individual.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: A Typology of Group Purposes

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Which of the following is an example of a social justice force that may inhibit rehabilitation?

a. self-consciousness about individual challenges

b. negative stereotypes of particular social identities

c. increasing parity between physical and mental health care

d. stigmatization of physical or mental illness

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Justice Forces That Oppose Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Heterogeneity is especially valuable in ______ groups, as it helps members to see a range of potential enactments of the issues at hand.

a. skill attainment

b. identity development

c. rehabilitation

d. socialization

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Pre-group Tasks

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. In addressing the social justice implications of identity development, it is critical for members to consider ______.

a. whether they have an accurate perception of their own identity

b. their family’s goals or desires related to their identity

c. how external systems view and influence them

d. how to integrate their identity with accepted norms in their community

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Goal Pursuit Tasks

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. According to Brim and Wheeler (1966) full attainment of a skill requires going beyond knowledge and includes ______ and ______ to enact desired behaviors and values.

a. ability; motivation

b. behaviors; values

c. training; support

d. introspection; reflection

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Formation Tasks

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. ______ and ______ are particularly useful methods for helping members in skill attainment groups achieve their goals.

a. Dialogue; mediation

b. Checking in; role reversal

c. Role rehearsal; modeling

d. Reframing; questioning

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Goal Pursuit Tasks

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. According to the text, what actions should be taken by workers facilitating groups with involuntary members (or members in social control situations)?

a. focus on seeking to motivate participation through forming a close personal bond with them member

b. emphasize the member individuality and rights, give them agency within the group, and seek to support their emerging efforts or desires for change in themselves or systems

c. emphasize personal gain that reluctant members could achieve through positive participation to increase motivation

d. help members to find a common purpose through supporting one another in resisting group activities

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Resistance to Social Control

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Members may be more open to identifying sources of difficulty that originate within themselves when workers ______.

a. are open to exploring agency/organizational conditions that are detrimental to members

b. use self-disclosure to demonstrate that they too have flaws

c. emphasize that external forces, not members, are responsible for their difficulties

d. push them to understand the role they have played in their own challenges

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Group Formation Tasks

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. What are the two key tasks of rehabilitation tasks?

a. acknowledging forces that led to deviant behavior and learning new behavior

b. overcoming social forces that have led to particular labels and acquiring new skills

c. forming relationships with others who have been similarly diagnosed and gaining new skills

d. stopping negative behaviors and engaging in more positive behaviors

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Consciousness raising is an internal process that isn’t related to external support or the consciousness of those around us.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Goal Pursuit Tasks

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Skill groups with a structured format can successfully accommodate higher numbers of members than other types of groups.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Pre-group Tasks

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Addressing negative thought patterns or emotions can be an important aspect of skill attainment groups

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Goal Pursuit Tasks

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The co-option of agency purposes or attitudes by workers in a group with social control elements can jeopardize the group’s social justice aims.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Resistance to Social Control

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Patient government groups have a rehabilitative purpose.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rehabilitation

Difficulty Level: Medium