Social Worker Characteristics and Ethics (quiz)

1. Social workers need to be "people persons."

True | False
2. Social workers should never discuss their clients except in the context of working with another organization or agency to help their client overcome his or her problems.

True | False

3. In all but the most extreme and dangerous cases of child abuse or neglect, the social worker's effort is to reunite the family and to keep the child in his or her home.

True | False
4. Effective social workers are able to communicate to their clients that they accept them, want to be involved with them in a professional relationship, and want to maintain positive relationships with them.

True | False

5. Being nonjudgmental is a key social work value.

True | False
6. Social work educators believe that fully understanding social work requires a solid grounding in the study of the liberal arts.

True | False

7. For social workers, clients take priority. That is, the most important consideration for social workers is those they serve, rather than society, the organizations they work, for or their own interests.

True | False
8. Ethical social work practice requires social work professionals to avoid dual relationships. That is, the social worker working with a client on personal and social problems should not also have business or personal relationships with that client or that client's immediate family.

True | False

9. Social work ethics are ambiguous and, therefore, it is difficult to know when one is behaving improperly.

True | False
10. Disillusionment is unlikely to occur in social work jobs because the nature of the work is helping people.

True | False

11. Because most social work activities are carried out with one or two clients or, at most, a small group, public speaking skills are unimportant for social workers.

True | False
12. Becoming a leader in office politics is a sound strategy for moving upward in one's social work career.

True | False

13. Social workers should avoid close personal, especially sexual, contact, with their clients.

True | False
14. Many social workers find it helpful in their work to put clever messages on their telephone answering machines.

True | False

15. Learning touch typing is not necessary for social workers because there are many secretaries available to type their reports.

True | False
16. Being especially concerned about children and older adults is a useful attribute for social workers.

True | False

17. Some of social work's most important services to children are provided through schools, many of which employ social workers.

True | False

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