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Chapter 20: Working with Gang Involved/Affiliated Youth (Robert Hernandez)
Multiple Choice
1. What is the biggest challenge in the study and work with gangs?
a. Media stigma
b. The variability in the types of gangs
c. Access to data
*d. Definition of the core term
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC
2. How many gang domains are used?
a. 4
b. 6
*c. 5
d. 8
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC
3. What describes the criminal perspective attached to the gang domains?
a. Deviance
*b. Criminogenic risk factors
c. Person-in-environment risk
d. Criminology
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC
4. What two populations are perceived to be defiant?
a. Asians and Latinos
b. Mixed race and immigrants
*c. African Americans and Latinos
d. Caucasians and Hispanics
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assessment
Question Type: MC
5. What period of life does a person’s identity go through marked changes physically and mentally?
a. Childhood
*b. Adolescence
c. Adulthood
d. Preadolescence
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assessment
Question Type: MC
6. What is an aspect of gangs that social workers should pay attention to and learn about in their practice?
*a. Body language
b. Culture
c. Residential settings
d. Cultural competency
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference
Question Type: MC
7. What type of transference and countertransference can be experienced by social workers?
a. Access
b. Knowledge
c. Boundaries
*d. Safety
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Transference and Countertransference
Question Type: MC
8. What therapy has the goal of improving client functioning in multiple systems?
a. Cognitive behavioral therapy
*b. Multisystemic therapy
c. Ecological therapy
d. Play therapy
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Interventions
Question Type: MC
9. How many minutes are offered weekly to conduct home therapy in the MST method?
*a. 75 minutes
b. 60 minutes
c. 50 minutes
d. 90 minutes
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: MC
10. Which of the following ethnic groups was not a commonly affiliated immigrant population in U.S. gang history?
a. German
b. Polish
*c. Russian
d. Jewish
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Macro Perspective: Policy Implications
Question Type: MC
True/False
1. To ensure ecological validity, information would come from an array of resources such as parents and siblings.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension
Answer Location: Interventions
Question Type: TF
2. Another name for the community-based gang intervention model is II PRONG.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension
Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: TF
3. The community-based gang intervention model is an integrated approach of service delivery.
*True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: TF
4. Gang intervention specialists use a nontraditional clinical approach while monitoring sensitivity of rapport building and concerns of safety.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: TF
5. Rapport building is the most difficult area to achieve when working with gang involved or street socializing youth.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Mezzo Perspective: Communities in Schools
Question Type: TF
6. Gang intervention specialists learn to separate traditional practices from nontraditional practices.
a. True
*b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Mezzo Perspective: Communities in Schools
Question Type: TF
7. United States gang history dates back to the 1800s.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Macro Perspective: Policy Implications
Question Type: TF
8. African Americas comprise the largest representation of gang members today, in the 21st century.
a. True
*b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Macro Perspective: Policy Implications
Question Type: TF
9. Ecological theory helps to illuminate the effects of gangs.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Macro Perspective: Policy Implications
Question Type: TF
10. The Community-Based Gang Intervention Act is a proactive approach to aid youth by providing access to care.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Macro Perspective: Policy Implications
Question Type: TF
Short Answer
Type: S
1. What are three efforts for social change presented to social workers when working at the macro level with gang affiliated youth?
*a. Three efforts for social change presented to social workers when working at the macro level with gang affiliated youth are 1) the ability to respond and foster change in poverty, 2) unemployment, and 3) discrimination.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conclusion
Question Type: SA
Type: S
2. What is the legal definition of gangs, as reflected in the penal code?
*a. The definition outlined by the Penal Code 186.22 is “Any ongoing organization, association, or group of three or more persons whether formal or informal having crime as one of its primary activities, having a common name or common identifying sign or symbol, whose members individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal activity.”
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: SA
Type: S
3. What are three factors social workers should examine when conducting assessment with gangs?
*a. Three factors social workers should examine when conducting assessment with gangs are: 1) labels, 2) early life experiences, and 3) developmental level.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assessment
Question Type: SA
Essay
Type: E
1. Describe at least four learning tasks social workers have when working with gangs and why these are important to their practice.
*a. Four learning tasks social workers should be engaged in when working with gangs are: 1) understanding nuances and challenges that exist in the stigmatization of youth coming from underserved, urban communities, 2) learning root causes of gangs, 3) learning the youth’s culture and its impact within their social structure, 4) applying a holistic ecological framework, 5) conducting full-scale biopsychosocial assessment, and 6) regulating media images influencing perceptions. These aspects are extremely important to their social work practice as it can aid in assessment and understanding of the context of the youth’s situation. In addition, it can allow the social worker to determine and plan for aspects of bias in their practice.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: ESS
Type: E
2. Describe four diversity concerns for working with gangs and when these issues play a role in a social worker’s practice.
*a. The four concerns of diversity when working with gang members are language, culture, racial differences, and residential settings. These issues play an important role in implementing treatment interventions, program designs, and policy decision making. For greatest effectiveness, youth should be engaged in treatment planning and collaborate within systems.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Diversity
Question Type: ESS
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