LMSW Diversity and Social Justice 5

Question 1

A social worker discovers that their agency offers fewer services to undocumented immigrant clients than to documented clients. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Institutional discrimination

Answer

When institutional policies systematically disadvantage certain groups, this constitutes institutional discrimination regardless of individual worker intent.

Question 2

In anti-oppressive practice (AOP), the concept of 'positionality' requires social workers to:

Accepted Answer

Reflect on how their own social location shapes their perceptions and power in relationships

Answer

Positionality requires practitioners to critically examine how their race, gender, class, and other identities privilege or marginalize them in relation to clients.

Question 3

Which concept describes the psychological impact on marginalized individuals who internalize oppressive messages about their own group?

Accepted Answer

Internalized oppression

Answer

Internalized oppression occurs when members of marginalized groups accept and adopt negative societal messages about their own group as truth.

Question 4

A social worker uses a genogram with a client but only includes heterosexual family structures in the template. This omission reflects:

Accepted Answer

Heteronormativity embedded in clinical tools

Answer

When clinical tools assume heterosexual family structures as default, they embed heteronormativity and can alienate LGBTQ+ clients and families.

Question 5

The term 'cultural humility' differs from 'cultural competence' primarily in that cultural humility:

Accepted Answer

Emphasizes ongoing self-reflection, learning, and acknowledging that expertise about another's culture always rests with that person

Answer

Cultural humility, developed by Tervalon and Murray-García, stresses lifelong learning and critical self-reflection rather than achieving a static state of competence.

LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker Practice Test

LMSW - Licensed Master Social Worker Practice Test

LMSW Diversity and Social Justice 5