Caseworker Exam (including part 1 of interview questions), Exams of Advanced Education

Download Caseworker Exam (including part 1 of interview questions) and more Exams Advanced Education in PDF only on Docsity! Caseworker Exam (including part 1 of interview questions) A client has been unemployed for two years. She has tried to hold a job but has failed each time. She has come to you for help in securing employment. From your initial meetings with her, there are indications that she is not sincere about getting and keeping a job. Which one of the following is the best way to handle this situation? - Ask her opinion on why she has been unable to keep a job. You have been interviewing a client and now have enough information to make the necessary decisions. However, the client just will not stop talking and is repeating, in slightly different words, the information that he has already given you. Which one of the following is the best way to deal with this situation? - Thank the client for coming in. Tell him that his information has been very helpful and you will contact him if you need additional information. Martin Wilson failed to take proper precautions. His failure to take proper precautions caused a personal injury accident. Which one of the following best presents the information above? - Martin Wilson failed to take proper precautions that caused a personal injury accident. - Proper precautions, which Martin Wilson failed to take, caused a personal injury accident. - Martin Wilson's failure to take proper precautions caused a personal injury accident. - Martin Wilson, who failed to take proper precautions, was in a personal injury accident. - Martin Wilson's failure to take proper precautions caused a personal injury accident. Choosing among occupations in the field of human services is an important decision to make. Before actually deciding upon a human services job, people usually think about several possibilities. They imagine themselves in different situations, and in so doing, they probably think about their interests, goals, and abilities. Eventually, they piece all of this information together and make a choice. - . Of the 300 people working at a medical facility, 14% are clerks. How many workers at the medical facility are not clerks? Is it A.42 B. 86 C. 258 D. 286 - Since 14% are clerks, 86% (100% minus 14%) are not clerks. You must then convert 86% to its decimal value, 0.86, and multiply 300 by 0.86, to determine what 86% of 300 is (the number of workers at the medical facility who are not clerks). Since 300 x 0.86 = 258, the number of workers at the medical facility who are not clerks is 258 A person approaches you expressing anger about a recent action by your department. Which one of the following should be your first response to this person? - Listen and express understanding that he has been upset by your department's action. "The increasing demands upon our highways from a growing population and the development of forms of transportation not anticipated when the highways were first built have brought about congestion, confusion, and conflict, until the yearly toll of traffic accidents is now at an appalling level. If the death and disaster that traffic accidents bring throughout the year were concentrated into one calamity, we would shudder at the tremendous catastrophe. The loss is no less catastrophic because it is spread out over time and space." Which one of the following statements concerning the yearly toll of traffic accidents is best supported by the passage above? A. It is increasing the demands for safer means of transportation. B. It has resulted in increased congestion, confusion, and conflict on our highways. C. It does not shock us as much as it should because the accidents do not all occur together. D. It has resulted ma - It does not shock us as much as it should because the accidents do not all occur together. When an employeee has a complaint about his assignment, the action which will best help him overcome his difficulty is what? - take the problem to the person who gave him the assignment The primary function of the department of social services is to what? - grant aid to needy eligible persons A public assistance program objective should be designed to what? -provide for eligible persons in accordance with their individual requirements and with considerations of the circumstances they live in -industrial progress has reduced working hours - the labor force has decreased In evaluating the adequacy of an individual's income, a social service worker should place primary emphasis on what? - its purchasing power A person with an IQ of 100 has____________intelligence - approximately average While state legislatures differ in many respects, all of them are MOST NEARLY alike in what way? - method of selection of their members Power to pardon offenses committed against the people in the USA is vested (secured in possession ) in the? - President As distinguished from formal social control of an individual's behavior, an example of informal social control is that exerted by what? - public opinion The principal function of the jury in a jury trial is to decide questions of what? - fact Of the following rights of an individual, the one which usually depends on citizenship as distinguished from those given anyone living under the laws of the USA is the right to? - get public assistance - hold elective office -be accorded a trial by jury - hold an elective office The name of Thomas Malthus is most closely associated with a work on what? - population A chronic functional disease characterized by fits or attacks in which there is a loss of consciousness with a succession of convulsion is called what? - epilepsy The term "mores" refers to what? - social customs Disparity refers most directly to what? - difference the technical term used to express the ratio between mental and chronological age is called the what? - intelligence quotient In social services work, the disorganizing factors in a personal or familiar situation which prevent or hinder rehabilitation are called what? - liabilities whats the period called when mental abilities begin to go bad? - senility ____________ is to public assistance as citizenship is to_________ - Need, passport ____________is to home relief as public institutional care is to ___________ - direct relief, indoor relief __________is to "face sheet" as income is to_________ - case record, wages ______________ is to demography as man is to_____________ - social statistics, anthropology ____________ is to tuberculosis as Terman is to ___________ - Mantoux, intelligence test _____________is to dementia as feeblemindess is to _______________ - insanity, amentia Frustration is to _______________as________________is to relaxation - satisfaction, tension _____________ is to homocide as felony is to ____________ - Manslaughter, crime A person who knowingly brings a needy person from another state into NY for the purpose of making him a public charge, is guilty of what? - a misdemeanor Among the following needy persons, the one NOT eligible to receive veteran assistance is the what? - husband of a veteran, if living with the veteran OR - minor grandchild of a veteran, if living with the veteran OR -non veteran brother or sister of a veteran, if living with the veteran OR - incapacitated child of deceased veteran OR -stepmother or stepfather of a veteran, if living with the veteran - non-veteran brother or sister of a veteran, if living with the veteran The term state residence, as defined in the Social Welfare Law, means continuous residence within the state for a period of at least what time? - one year In order to be eligible for old-age assistance in this State, applicants must have resided continuously in the state prior to the date of application for what period of time? - no specific period Under the Social Security Act, public assistance payments do NOT provide for? - it does NOT provide for kids in foster homes Of the following, the distinguishing characteristics of a dependent child as defined in the Social Welfare Law, refer to a child who is what? - in the custody of, or wholly or partly maintained by an authorized organization of charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or reformatory OR -in such condition of want or suffering or who is under such improper guardianship as to injure or endanger the morals of himself or others OR -between 16 and 18 years of age and solely dependent upon his parents for support and maintenance OR -under 16 years of age and deserted or abandoned by parents or other parents lawfully charged with his care OR -incorrigible or ungovernable and beyond the control of his parents or guardian - in the custody of, or wholly or partly maintained by an authorized organization of charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or reformatory Recent adoption laws tend to place increased emphasis upon what? - social investigation of the home before adoption Any person or organization soliciting donations in public places is required to have a license issued by the what? - department of social services A person who, though himself, in good health, harbors disease germs which may be passed on to others is called a what? - carrier Diseases most commonly caused by certain working environments or conditions are known as what kind of disease? - occupational Proper use of the word carious would involve reference to what? - teeth The chemical agent which has been used to prevent the spread of typhus infection is what? - DDT A set of symptoms which occur together is called a what? - syndrome If a characteristics of a person were being studied by competent observers, it would be expected that their observations would differ MOST markedly with respect to their evaluation of the persons' what? - temperamental characteristics Although malnutrition is generally associated with poverty, dietary studies of population groups in the USA reveal what? - malnutrition is found among people with plenty of money for good food