Dr.

Aurelio Mendoza Memorial Colleges

SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT
Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay

Evaluation Test to 3rd Year Level

Name : __________________________________________________________________________ Score : _________________________

INSTRUCTION: ENCIRCLE YOUR ANSWER. READ THE QUESTIONS THOROUGHLY. YOU ARE GIVEN AMPLE TIME
TO ENSURE DEFINITE ANSWER IN THE QUESTION GIVEN. AVOID ERASURES.

Instruction: Kindly read the questions twice or more and encircle the correct answer. Do not be in a hurry.

1.Which of the following is NOT a goal of the social worker?

a. Linking clients with needed resources
b. Answering phone calls and sending emails on behalf of clients
c. Promoting social justice through the development of social policy
d. Enhancing people's capacities to resolve problems, cope, and function effectively
2.Generalist social work practice does all BUT WHICH of the following?
a. Utilizes generic practice processes to organize work with client systems
b. Recognizes the potential for change at multiple system levels - within human
systems, between systems, and among environmental systems
c. Focuses on macro-level intervention at the community, agency, and policy levels of practice
d. Integrates direct practice with social policy and social work research activities
3. The social worker's greatest tool is:
a. His or her knowledge of the profession
b. Self
c. The social work code of ethics
d. Their Christian belief system
4. Social welfare:
a. Addresses the general well-being needs of individuals and meets the universal needs of the
population.
b. Is hardly any different from social work that it's not even worth mentioning
c. Can be classified as in-dependant of social work activities and is usually seen as a hindrance to
sustained social functioning
d. All of the above
5. Family preservation, family counselling, foster care and adoption, day care, prevention of child abuse and
neglect, and prevention of domestic violence. These are all functions of:
a. Gerontological services
b. Community development
c. Mental Health
d. Family and children's services
6.The relationship between social work and society can be understood in terms of four possible patterns.
Which of the following is NOT included in this category?
a. Social work as a hindrance to social functioning within society
b. Social work as separate from society
c. Social work as a reformer of society
d. Social work as an intermediary between individuals and society
7. Social workers most often use a _____________ when assessing client's needs.
a. Developmental perspective
b. Strength's perspective
c. System's perspective
d. Value-based perspective
8. The irrational emotional reactions or fantasies that practitioners experience in response to client.
a. Counter transference b. transference
C. identification d. isolation e. egoism
9.Which of the following is NOT a foundational knowledge base for social work?
a. Philosophy and history of social work
b. Knowledge of self
c. Computer science
d. Culture and Liberal arts
10.The dual focus of social work refers to __________
a. Promoting individual change in engaging in social reform
b. The use of professionals and volunteers
c. Public and private agencies
d. Children and their families
11. Casework _________.
a. Focuses on analyzing case records
b. Involves work with individuals
c. Emphasizes reforming individuals' moral character
d. Never includes working with families
12. All of the following are TRUE about generalist practice EXCEPT:
a. It is based on open assessment
b. It examines systems of different sizes
c. It is multi-method
d. It is multi-theory
e. Its use is not appropriate in direct practice
13.It is derivative of the inherent worth and dignity of the person, of the belief that she is endowed with a
reason and a will
a. Self-determination c. acceptance
b. non judgmental attitude d. individualization
14. In casework, the very first principle that guides the client-worker relationship, which the latter extends
unconditional love to those seeking help is
a. confidentiality b. acceptance c. non-judgmental attitude d. individualization
15. The worker gathers data pertinent in understanding of the problem which the client is confronted for the
purpose of making assessment
a. assessment b. goal setting c. data gathering d. identification of the problem
16. The choice of the problem focus is determined by
a. the agency b. the client c. the worker d. the worker and the client
17. In the situation where there is a clash between worker’s values, one of the following is called for on the
part of the helping person.
a. sincerity b. openness c. non-judgmental attitude d. self-awareness
18. The implication of this principle is that help is differentiated to meet the particular needs of each individual
case and situation, and the client uses her own abilities and resources to work with her problem.
a. acceptance b. individualization c. self-determination d. client participation
19. Care should be taken to zero in the target problem, that which the worker and the client agree to work on.
a. goal setting b. planning intervention c. plan implementation
 d. identification & definition of the problem
20. This involves goals setting and determination of strategies to be used and plans may be immediate, near
future, or long range.
a. goal setting c. plan implementation
b. planning the intervention d. assessment
21. This is based on the facts observed and the diagnostic thinking of worker, and facts needed to understand
and help the client with her psycho-social problems.
a. treatment plan c. plan implementation
b. planning the intervention d. assessment
22. The helping process is directed towards the client herself to achieve modification in patterns of adaption.
a. treatment plan b. supportive treatment c. environmental modification
d. personality modification
23. The helping process is directed towards change in the social role relationship and in the resources available
to the client, as in the physical environment of the client.
a. treatment plan b. supportive treatment c. environmental modification
d. personality modification
24. The need for expression and for sharing experience has been a very patient dynamic component in the
case work relationship. This is the worker’s reaction to the client’s purposeful expression of feelings.
a. Individualization b. self-determination c. controlled emotional involvement
d. purposeful expression of feelings
25. A social worker’s role that seeks to link the client with the resources that she needs or procures these for
her.
a. advocate b. clinician c. mediator d. direct provider of resources
26. It is also recognizes the importance of family-centered approach to strengthen the positive value in family
life and healthy social functioning of family members
a. client centered casework c. social case work
b. social group work d. community approach
27. It is composite of strategies, or approaches, activities and procedures which aim at the prevention of
solution of social dysfunctioning
a. service b. funding c. counseling sessions d. professional palm reading
28. Where the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and education can be used as a tool to convince the client
that he/she has the ability to deal with his/her problems refers to the availability of :
a. material resources c. verbal resources
b. mental resources d. hypothetical resources
29. The agency that has a full authority and responsibility for its casework function is called:
a. Hospital b. primary agency c. secondary agency d. privacy and individual
30. The physical set up, finances, policies, services and manpower of the casework agency, which can be in a
primary or secondary setting, refers to:
a. agency’s resources b. agency’s social workers c. metacognition d. The World Council of Churches
31. “Casework” studies the client’s current adjustment, life history, in order to find out whether his/ her
functioning is inadequate.It also focuses on the areas that cause client’s discomfort. It tends to concentrate on
the facets of the client’s personality that is most susceptible to change. Therefore “casework” is :
a. thematic b. schematic c. historic d. fantastic
32. Typical difficulties in social functioning refer to:
a. The client’s reactive emotional distress; problems of “ Borderline Pathology”;problems of being a
client
b. The client’ attitude towards the social welfare system, and being tired of constantly being told what
to do.
c. Client’s role performance, client’s recurrent depression; and problems with work.
 d. Client’s sleeping late; playing hockey;; and blasting the radio all hours of the night.
33. Components of social work:
a. The nature of the person, problem, resources and problem solving process
b. The social worker, the society, and the boundaries of the relationship.
c. Case, activity and agency
d. Oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen
34. The person:
a. Is a dynamic bio-psychosocial being;interacts between social, cultural and economic forces in his/her
environment that influence his/her activity, thinking, feeling and talking.
b. Is alive, has body, has feelings and is a willing being
c. Makes meow sounds, becomes aware of his environment and licks himself.
d. It is a two legged animal that has reached his level of competence.
35. It is a method of social work which intervention in the psychosocial aspects of a person’s life to improve,
restore, maintain and develop his/her social functioning by improving his/her role performance:
a. groupwork b. casework c. Women Center d. community organization
36. The process of the psychosocial or diagnostic approach is:
a. social study, and social diagnosis c. social treatment and community
b. termination and independence d. Schizophrenia and Psychosis
37. In the helping process the social worker helps the client to come to terms with the realistic and objective
perception of his/her existing conditions or situation and attempts to motivate the client to do something
about his/her problems. This component of the helping relationship is:
a. reality b. denial c. transference d. transforming matter into money
38. The client’s displacement on the worker the particular feelings and attitudes he/she experienced towards
his/her family members or people that the client was close to such as family member is:
a. transference b. counter transference c. reality d. emotional triangle
39. The multi –problem family model is used most appropriately with multi-problem families, especially those:
a. from marginal and disadvantaged sector.
b. families with multiple economic problems
c. families with poorly developed social functioning and those with educational and motivational
problems
d. All of the above
40. The aim of crisis intervention is:
a. to halt or reduce unbridled
b. to give medical assistance
c. provide residential treatment for those behavior is uncontrollable
d. All of the above
41. The instruments or means used by the social worker to carry out his/her practice:
a. skills b. techniques c. tools d. hammer and chisel
42. Agencies keep some form of records which identify the clients they serve and the kind of service rendered
to them:
a. social work records b. community resources c. referral d. Interview
43. The method of procedure is called:
a. techniques b. skills c. tools d. bricks and mortar
44. The worker provides such material aids as may be needed by the client to eliminate or reduce situational
deficiencies. The worker assumes the role of:
a. breadwinner b. direct provider of resources c. change agent d. enabler
45. Evaluation must be
a. periodic c. done when the worker is in the mood to evaluate
b. continuous d. none of the above
46. A system that ask for help and engages the services of a social worker is called:
a. change agent b. target system c. client system d. problem person
47. This approach uses the barangay structure to build the capacity of the grassroots’ people to engage in
effective problem solving:
a. people’s participation c. baranganic approach
b. people’s power d. conscientization
48. Any person or group, professional or nonprofessional, inside or outside a social system which is attempting
to bring about change in the system is called:
a. change agent b. paraprofessional c. informal leader d. target system
49.A social worker who brings her case records at home and carelessly leave them on the dinner table is
violating the:
a. principle of individuality c. worth of individual
b. principle of confidentiality d. client’s self- determination
50. A concrete statement prepared by the worker to present his assessment of the client’s situation and
identify the objectives necessary to pursue the problem to a conclusion:
a. interview guide b. case study c. questionnaire d. record
51. Steps taken by the worker to change the environment in the client’s favor by the worker’s direct action:
a. environmental modification c. insight
b. provision of financial assistance d. therapy
52.The act of directing a client to another agency because the client’s problem is beyond the scope of the
agency’s services:
a. terminating case b. referral c. consultation d. evaluation
53.The statement “I am trying to feel what you are feeling” means;
a. mutuality c. humility
b. empathy d. sympathy
54. This individual client-worker tasks is “ base on assessment and the outcome of assessment”?
a. intake b. action-planning c. evaluation d. none of the above
55. The agency that has full authority and responsibility for its casework function is called
a. hospital c. secondary agency
b. primary agency d. privacy and individual
56. Establishing rapport with client requires that social workers/practitioner manifest some of the values and
attitudes except;
a. acceptance and respect for client’s worth and dignity
b. client’s right of self-determination
c. object and decision of worker
d. non-judgmental attitude
57. A social worker’s activity in influencing the legislative and administrative process to achieve the
profession’s social policy objectives is referred to as
a. negotiating c. lobbying e. intervening
b. motivating d. planning
58. The social worker usually starts his work in the community with a:
a. courtesy call c. general meeting
b. census with a questionnaire d. visit on an old friend
59. The basis for decisions on what can be done about the problem, what resources can be utilized for helping
the family and how the worker and the family will proceed to work together in solving the problem is the
a. data gathered c. outcome e. resources available
b. client decision d. problem presented
60. As social workers we view poverty as:
a. God’s will c. fate e. a condition that can and must be change
 b. form of punishment d. situational
61. One of these is not a function of social work:
a. remedial b. developmental c. counseling d. rehabilitation
62. This is one of the problem in professional social work practice and many social workers are allergic to this
tool:
a. interviewing b. recording c. home visitation d. all of the above
63. All of these except one are examples of the preventive function of social work
a. skills training c. pre-marital counseling
b. livelihood programs d. crisis intervention
64. One of these is not an essential element/component of social work practice
a. client system b. worker c. process d. reality social situation
65. These, except one are steps in the research process:
a. hypothesis development c. termination
b. data collection d. data analysis
66. These terms except one are used to refer to the generalist approach to social work practice:
a. integrated program c. generic approach
b. integrated methods d. traditional methods of practice
67. This concept states that when a client is faced with a threatening situation, he/she will try to use the
situation. The client is using:
a. ability to make decisions c. reality testing principle
b. mode of adaptation d. decision making
68. . Evaluation is necessary to be done
a. at the beginning b. at the middle c. at the end d. a continuous process
69. Violations of social norms that offend a large number of people or people in a position to influence social
judgment. a. Anomie b. Entropy
c. Deviance d. Lawlessness e. Crime
70. Behavior and appearances that follow and maintain the standards of a group.
a. Informal Social Control c. Differential Association
b. Social Differentiation d. Conformity e. Group Bond
71. Any and all efforts to prevent and/or correct deviant behavior.
a. Formal Control b. Social Control
c. Intervention d. Secret Deviant
72. Compliance achieved based on the ability to distribute rewards that others view as valuable.
a. reward power b. expert power
c. legitimate power d. formal power e. coercive power
73. Simply defined as a state where norms (expectations on behavior) are confused, unclear or not present.
a. anomie b. entropy
c. commensalism d. fatalism e. alienation
74. A breakdown in the cultural structure, occurring particularly when there is an acute disjunction between
cultural norms and goals and the society’s structural capacities of members of the groups to act in accord with
them.
a. anomie b. entropy
c. commensalism d. fatalism e. alienation
75.Government aid to needy persons to help them meet their basic needs when their own resources are
inadequate a. program b. project c. public assistance d. disaster relief
76. Social work practice which integrates the three primary methods to achieve man’s social functioning
a. specialized practice b. clinical social work c. generic social work d. traditional social work
77. A worker who says: “ I will understand how you feel so go ahead and cry…is giving
a. financial support b. emotional support c. transference d. consolation
78. A need becomes a problem when
a. it has not been met or satisfied c. it has not been expressed
b. no social worker attends to it d. it becomes bothersome
79. The choice of problem focus is determined by:
a. the worker and the client b. the agency c. the worker d. the client
80. The four components of social work practice are
a. restorative, rehabilitative, preventive and developmental
b. interviewing, discussion, referral and case recording
c. the client, the problem, the agency and the helping process
d. the people, the needs, the institution and the resources
51. The social work helping process is essentially
a. problem solving b. give and take c. consultative d. counseling
81. The beginnings of the present child welfare programs can be traced to the
a. Spaniards b. British c. Americans d. Malays
82. The social work law which conferred recognition to social work profession.
a. RA 4373 as amended by RA 5175 b. PD 205 c. RA 65 d. PD 1081
83. A third important factor that influenced the social philosophy & the practice of poor relief in England
a. social research b. settlement house c. social reform d. Beveridge report
84.Private social welfare organization-its main objective is to upgrade and maintain the standards of the social
work profession.
a. NASWEI b. CWAFPI c. community chest d. PASWEI
85. A basic skill that refers to the worker’s ability to concentrate both his and his client’s efforts on the
significant aspect of the situation that requires work.
a. focus b. timing c. partialization d. creating structure
86. A pioneer in Public Welfare, he was later acknowledged as Father of Philippine Social welfare
a. Pres. Elpidio Quirino b. Pres. Manuel Quezon c. Mr. Gregorio Feleciano d. Dr. Jose Fabella
87. Social Work is practiced is
a. primary setting b. secondary setting c. both a & b d. none of the above
88. The pioneer in Casework in casework
a. COS b. Hull House c.Xenodochia d. Military House
89. The first to use Casework in the Philippines
a. Orphanage b. Associated charities of Manila c. Settlement House d. SWA
90. She was the author of the Social Work Law
a. Asuncion Perez b. Minerva Laudico c. Petra de Joya c. Maria Katigbak
91. When the social workers and the client work together in the “ case” they established:
a. friendly relationship c. supervisor-subordinate relationship
b. Make a creative timeline showing the im
portant events, organizations and individuals
that contributed in the development of case
work as a method of social work.
;LL/helping relationship d. business-like relationship
92. Man’s adjustment in his environment
a. socialization b. maturation c. growth d. man’s social functioning
93. These are supervisory tools
a. questionnaire b. records c. information sheet d. interview guide
94. The preservation of secret information disclosed in the professional relationship is referred to as
a. self-determination b. confidentiality c. acceptance d. non-j udgmental attitude
95. All are involved in helping a child being abuse sexually, except;
a. teacher b. doctor c. reflexologist d. psychologist
96. When a social worker supplies the client with the means, the knowledge, or the opportunity to be or do
something, he is assuming the role of
a. a teacher b. a clinician c. an enabler d. a mediator
97. The focus of social work is the
a. agency services b. social problem c. person-in-situation d. helping process
98. A principle in social work that affirms the belief in the uniqueness of every individual and human situation
a. acceptance b. non-judgmental attitude c. individualization d. confidentiality
99. The value premises or assumptions of social work are derived from its philosophical belief that man is
imbued with
a. equal rights b. inherent worth and dignity c. higher aspirations d. desire to change
100. A general role of the social worker is that of a
a. social planner b. direct provider of resources c. facilitator d. change agent
101. It is one of the components of termination:
a. disengagement b. action c. coordination d. assessment
102. The problem solving process is different from social work process:
a. problem solving process is just one part of the social work process
b. social work process is involved in establishing and maintaining a relationship
c. All of the above d. None of the above
103. Seeing and listening to the feelings of the client is an indication of
a. understanding b. sensitivity c. controlled emotional involvement d. acceptance
104. The entity in the government that is responsible for the formulation of national goals is the
a. DSWD c. NEDA
b. Office of the President d. DBM
105. The basis for decisions on what can be done about the problem, what resources can be utilized for
helping the family and how the worker and the family will proceed to work together in solving the problem is
the:
a. data gathered b. client decision c. outcome d. problem presented

GOOD LUCK