Ch12 Culturally Grounded Methods Of Social Test Bank Docx

Chapter 12: Culturally Grounded Methods of Social Work Practice

Test Bank

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 1

1) The insider outside role is key while working with BIPOC communities.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 2

2) Culturally grounded one-on-one interventions focus on economic status as the main way to strengthen an individual’s wellbeing.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 3

3) Shared views and ideologies may be a prerequisite for the development of effective alliances based on a set of common interests.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 4

4) In collectivistic cultures, family, group and community centered interventions seem to be more conducive to engagement and successful outcomes than one-on-one interventions.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 5

5) When confronted with an ethical dilemma connected to cultural practices and norms practitioners can address them through:

a. Supervision

b. Consultation

c. A and B

d. None of the above

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 6

6) One way of implementing the culturally ground approach in many agency settings is through

a. family interventions

b. agency policies

c. court system

d. stratification

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 7

7) Members of oppressed and disadvantaged communities face a host of barriers in their quest to advance socially, economically and spirituality. These barriers include

a. misunderstanding of cultural status

b. racial inequality

c. lack of support systems

d. stereotypical media portrayals

e. all of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 Question 8

8) To decrease the level of cultural and ideological fragmentation that characterizes many urban centers, it is very important to form:

a. cross-cultural alliances

b. coalitions

c. A and B

d. none of the above

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 9

9) Oppressed ethnic/racial communities in the United States are often located in

a. large cities

b. rural mountain areas

c. bottom strata of income and wealth

d. all of the above

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 10

10) Social workers of different identity backgrounds can become more culturally responsive by educating themselves about

a. a community’s historical traditions

b. cultural beliefs, and norms

c. learning how to integrate appropriate styles of communication respectfully

d. all of the above

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 11

11) The #MeToo movement, founded by Tarana Burke

a. helps survivors of sexual violence find pathways to healing

b. is a movement only in the US

c. is only focused on female’s experiences

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 12

12) What are some of the principles that guide a culturally grounded approach to working with families and what is the first step in the process?

Feedback:Principles to guide culturally grounded approach to working with families:

● Practitioners and families work together in relationships based on equality and respect.

● Family members are vital resources.

● Practitioners enhance families and their capacity to support the growth and development of all family members.

● Interventions affirm and strengthen families cultural, racial and linguistic identities and enhance their ability to function in a multicultural society.

● Practitioners embed themselves in their communities and contribute to the community-building process.

● Practitioners work with families to mobilize formal and informal resources to support family development.

● Interventions are flexible and continually responsive to emerging family and community issues.

● Principles of family support are part of all program activities including planning, governance, and administration.

Recognizing the family as a key role is the first step. The next step involves the recognition that families live in densely interconnected social networks.

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 13

13) What do we mean by the following statement, “Culturally grounded social work with groups connects individuals with their cultural roots?”

Feedback:It explores commonalities among group members, both past and present, as well as their dreams for the future. This approach maximizes the potential of the members’ narrative legacies and allows their commonalities to emerge. This culturally grounded process follows the identity development approach by helping group members become aware of their identity in the context of their cultural background and its connection to their experience of oppression. Facilitators, creatively and respectfully, draw on resources from culture to support this group process as members’ gain or regain awareness of their norms, values, and traditions. Group members from communities of color and/or sexual minorities can share and support each other in their own challenges as they navigate between the two worlds represented by minority and majority communities.

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 14

14) Why is it important to work with different cultural communities within social work?

Feedback:Culturally grounded social work with communities and social work with different ethno cultural communities are important because they bring people together to produce change. They congregate grass root organizations and form coalitions that help identity-centered efforts to achieve lasting structural and policy changes beyond their own more limited individual change agendas. Culturally grounded social workers use critical thinking and constant assessment of the needs and the assets arising from their cultures represented in the coalitions. The community organizing efforts tap on the identified community assets to propel transformative change.

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Title: Chapter 12 Question 15

15) How can agencies make an effort to become culturally competent and to be welcoming to different ethno racial communities?

Feedback:The agency space itself—the behavior of the receptionist, the decor of the waiting room, and the way in which the social workers’ offices are organized—can determine whether clients feel welcome or not. Agency materials, such as informational pamphlets and brochures, should contain pictures that reflect the communities they serve and be available in the languages clients speak. A very small reception area and clinical offices with one desk and two chairs are often the norm in agencies, even though non-dominant cultural groups tend to seek help as a family or arrive accompanied by members of their extended family, family of choice, or other members of their support network. Providing physical space for them gives a message that people in the client’s support network are welcome.