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SW 4750 MIDTERM VERIFIED ACCURATE STUDY GUIDE, Exams of Social Sciences

United States International UniversitySocial Sciences

SW 4750 MIDTERM VERIFIED ACCURATE STUDY GUIDE

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SW 4750 MIDTERM VERIFIED ACCURATE STUDY
GUIDE
Group Work Practice - Answers - -A focus on individual group members, the group as a
whole, and the group's environment
-Critical thinking and Evidence-Based-Practice
-Practice with broad rand of Treatment and Task Groups
-Generalist practice based on a set of core competencies
-Application of foundation knowledge and skills from Generalist Social Work Practice to
a broad range of leadership and membership situations
Four Key Values in Group Practice - Answers - 1.Respect and Dignity
2.Solidarity and Mutual Aid
3.Empowerment
4.Understanding, Respect
Key Value: Respect and Dignity - Answers - No Stigma. This includes valuing members'
contributions to the life of the group. Part of NASW
Key Value: Solidarity and Mutual Aid - Answers - The power and promise of
relationships to help members grow and develop and help them heal.
Unity and healing through relationships. Also to satisfy members needs for human
contact and connectedness.
Key Value: Empowerment - Answers - Power sharing. The power of the group to help
members feel good about themselves and to enable them to use their abilities to help
themselves
Key Value: Understanding and Respecting Diversity - Answers - Decrease ignorance,
misunderstanding, and prejudice. Members' respect and appreciation for each other
grow as their relationships deepen over the life of a group.
Group Work - Answers - Goal-directed activity with small treatment and task groups
aimed at meeting socio-emotional needs and accomplishing tasks. This activity is
directed to individual members of a group and to the group as a whole within a system
of service delivery and a larger community and societal environment.
System Theory - Answers - theory that describes the interconnected elements of a
system in which a change in one element affects all of the other elements
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Group Work Practice - Answers - - A focus on individual group members, the group as a whole, and the group's environment

  • Critical thinking and Evidence-Based-Practice
  • Practice with broad rand of Treatment and Task Groups
  • Generalist practice based on a set of core competencies
  • Application of foundation knowledge and skills from Generalist Social Work Practice to a broad range of leadership and membership situations Four Key Values in Group Practice - Answers - 1.Respect and Dignity 2.Solidarity and Mutual Aid 3.Empowerment 4.Understanding, Respect Key Value: Respect and Dignity - Answers - No Stigma. This includes valuing members' contributions to the life of the group. Part of NASW Key Value: Solidarity and Mutual Aid - Answers - The power and promise of relationships to help members grow and develop and help them heal. Unity and healing through relationships. Also to satisfy members needs for human contact and connectedness. Key Value: Empowerment - Answers - Power sharing. The power of the group to help members feel good about themselves and to enable them to use their abilities to help themselves Key Value: Understanding and Respecting Diversity - Answers - Decrease ignorance, misunderstanding, and prejudice. Members' respect and appreciation for each other grow as their relationships deepen over the life of a group. Group Work - Answers - Goal-directed activity with small treatment and task groups aimed at meeting socio-emotional needs and accomplishing tasks. This activity is directed to individual members of a group and to the group as a whole within a system of service delivery and a larger community and societal environment. System Theory - Answers - theory that describes the interconnected elements of a system in which a change in one element affects all of the other elements

Applying System Theory to Groups - Answers -? Psychodynamic Theory - Answers - Focuses primarily on the individual. it's a theory of behavior that emphasizes internal conflicts, motives, and unconscious forces Applying Psychodynamic Theory - Answers -? Learning Theory - Answers - is on the behavior of individuals rather than on the behavior of groups. It generally ignored the importance of group dynamics. Applying Learning Theory - Answers - When a group member who performs a certain behavior is ignored or punished by social sanctions, other group members learn not to behave in that manner because such behavior results in a negative outcome. Four Dimensions of Group Dynamic - Answers - 1. Communication & Interaction patterns

  1. Cohesion
  2. Social integration and influence
  3. Group culture Process of Communication - Answers - Sender encoding -->meaning, interference, transmission -->message, noise or interference and a receiver decodes --> understanding All communications are intended to convey a message either verbal or non-verbal. Group Cohesion - Answers - is the result of all forces acting on members to remain in a group. It's made up of three components: (1) member-to-member attraction and a liking for the group as a whole, (2) a sense of unity and community so that the group is seen as a single entity (3) a sense of team- work and esprit de corps with the group successfully performing as a coordinated unit. Reasons for members' attraction to a group - Answers - • The need for affiliation, recognition, and security
  • The resources and prestige available through group participation
  • Expectations of the beneficial and detrimental consequences of the group
  • The comparison of the group with other group experiences Social Integration and Influence - Answers - How members fit together and are accepted in a group. Groups are not able to function effectively unless there is a high level of social integration among members.

Methods for Sharing Power with Group - Answers - • Enable members to tell their own story.

  • Affirm and validate members' experiences of reality
  • Focus on members' coping abilities, capacities, resilience, strengths, and their own motivations and goals
  • Foster an atmosphere of trust and cohesion where members can help each other by emphasizing members' role in the power of the group to create change.
  • Encourage member-to-member rather than member-to-leader communications.
  • Ask for members' input into the agenda for the meeting and the direction the group should take in future meetings.
  • Support indigenous leadership when members make their first, tentative at- tempts at exerting their own inf luence in the group.
  • Encourage attempts at mutual sharing and mutual aid among members.
  • Model and teach members selected leadership skills early in the life of the group.
  • Use naturally occurring events in the life of the group to "process" information about leadership skills and styles and to empower members.
  • Encourage members to take leadership roles in struggling with the difficulty of making changes and resolving difficult problematic situations. Developing Cultural Sensitivity in Groups - Answers - • Explore your own cultural identity.
  • Learn how members define and identify themselves culturally.
  • Frame discussions of differences by emphasizing the strengths of various cultures.
  • Provide members with opportunities to describe how they experience their cultural backgrounds and identities.
  • Become familiar with the backgrounds of client groups with whom you frequently work.
  • Gain knowledge about particular cultural communities.
  • Become immersed in a particular culture.
  • Model acceptance and a nonjudgmental attitude about the values, lifestyles, beliefs, and behaviors of others by recognizing the value of diversity.
  • Acknowledge the effect of societal attitudes on members of diverse groups.
  • Honestly explore prejudices, biases, and stereotypical assumptions about working with people from diverse backgrounds. Common Elements of Multicultural Approaches - Answers - • Personal comfort with differences
  • Openness to new information about members' backgrounds and willingness to change or modify ideas and behaviors based on it
  • Perceiving others through their own cultural and social lens rather than through workers' perspectives
  • Seeking information and understanding about the specific beliefs and values members hold that may affect their behavior in groups
  • Flexibility and adaptability when working with members who have backgrounds that are unfamiliar to workers
  • Sorting through and synthesizing diverse information about specific communities to understand how it might apply to particular members of a group Methods of Recruiting Members - Answers - • Contacting potential members directly through interviews and phone contacts
  • Contacting key people in the networks of potential members
  • Sending announcements through direct mail
  • Posting announcements in community organizations
  • Using websites to advertise the group
  • Speaking at public meetings and appearing on radio and television shows
  • Issuing press releases, publishing announcements in organizational and association newsletters, and working with reporters to prepare feature newspaper articles Large Group Size - Answers - • Offer more ideas, skills, and resources to members
  • Can handle tasks that are more complex
  • Offer members greater potential for learning through role models
  • Provide members with more potential for support, feedback, and friendship
  • Allow members to occasionally withdraw and reflect on their participation
  • Help to ensure that there will be enough members for meaningful interaction even if some members fail to attend Planning Model for Group Work - Answers - IT CAN BE USED FOR BOTH TREATMENT AND TASK GROUPS
  • Establishing the group's purpose
  • Assessing the potential sponsorship and membership of the group
  • Recruiting members
  • Composing the group
  • Orienting members to the group
  • Contracting
  • Preparing the group's environment
  • Reviewing the literature
  • Selecting monitoring and evaluation tools
  • Preparing a written group proposal
  • Planning distance groups Small Group Size - Answers - •Provide members with a greater level of individualized attention •Enable closer face-to-face interaction •Present less opportunity for the formation of harmful subgroups •Present fewer opportunities for members to withdraw from participation •Allow for easier management by the worker •Tend to have more informal operating procedures
  • Provide more opportunities for achieving cohesiveness
  • Can achieve consensus more easily