Advanced Generalist Flashcards
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Which legislative advocacy strategy involves social workers directly communicating with lawmakers to influence pending legislation?
Answer: Lobbying
Lobbying is the direct engagement with legislators or their staff to advocate for or against specific legislation, a key macro-level advocacy strategy.
In organizational change, Lewin's three-step model includes which sequence of stages?
Answer: Unfreeze, change, refreeze
Lewin's model describes unfreezing existing attitudes/behaviors, implementing the change, and refreezing to stabilize the new state as the basis of planned organizational change.
When an advanced generalist social worker provides consultation to another professional, the primary distinction from supervision is that the consultee:
Answer: Is free to accept or reject the consultant's recommendations
Unlike supervision, consultation is a voluntary, non-hierarchical relationship in which the consultee retains full responsibility and autonomy to act on or disregard advice.
The social determinants of health most relevant to advanced generalist social work practice include:
Answer: Housing, income, education, and social support
Social determinants of health — including housing, income, education, and social support — are the non-medical factors that significantly shape health outcomes and are central to generalist practice.
An advanced generalist social worker is developing an interdisciplinary team to serve elderly clients. The BEST description of the social worker's role is:
Answer: To contribute a person-in-environment perspective and coordinate psychosocial services
Social workers contribute a unique person-in-environment perspective and coordinate psychosocial and community-based resources, making interdisciplinary collaboration more holistic and effective.
According to social welfare policy principles, the concept of 'universalism' means that services are provided:
Answer: To all members of society regardless of income or status
Universalism refers to social programs that provide benefits to all eligible individuals without means testing, such as public education or Social Security retirement benefits.
When an advanced generalist social worker uses a participatory action research (PAR) approach, the community members are primarily positioned as:
Answer: Co-researchers with meaningful roles in the research process
PAR is a collaborative methodology that involves community members as active partners in defining research questions, collecting data, and applying findings, reflecting social work values of empowerment.