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Question 1: How are the story of Victor - "the wild boy of Aveyron" - and the nature/nurture controversy relevant to the study of human behavior in the social environment?
Question 2: Why is assessment so important in social work practice and how is understanding humanbehavior and the social environment critical to good assessment? Define populations-at-risk and name three such populations social workers might encounter in practice.
Question 3: Define/discuss privilege and provide two examples.
Question 4: Define/discuss the concepts of empowerment, the strengths perspective, and resilience in social work practice. Distinguish between individual empowerment and group/organizational/community empowerment.
Question 5: Define what is meant by an ethical dilemma in social work practice. What do you think it means to tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts?
Question 6: Define/discuss ecosystems theory and the person-in-environment perspective in social work practice. Provide a brief "real-world" example of why these concepts are important in our work.
Question 7: Briefly define/discuss what are meant by micro, mezzo, and macro systems in social work and provide one specific example highlighting the interactions among and between them.
Question 8: Broadly, how do we use critical thinking in evaluating theories from a social work perspective?
Question 9: Offer a critical thinking perspective on the place of psychodynamic theory and specifically psychosexual development in contemporary social work practice.
Question 10: Discuss the phenomenological theoretical perspective and offer a critical thinking perspective on its value in contemporary social work practice.
Question 11: Discuss some ways that social workers may help to empower people with intellectual disabilities from both micro- and macro-systems approaches.
Question 12: Offer a critical thinking evaluation of the importance of learning theory from a social work perspective.
Question 13: Name and describe three typical characteristics of people who abuse and neglect children.