DIASS (Social Work & Communication)

1. Which of the following statements is not a definition of social work?

• A professional activity of helping individuals, groups or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to the goal.

• A field within human services and a part of services of the government

• A profession which promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships, and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being.

• A process by which message is moved or transmitted from one point to another to achieve some common purpose and goal.

Which goal of social work refers to the aspect of treating people with problems in social functioning.

• Caring

• Curing

• Changing

• Communicating

Which of the following scope of social work as a primary discipline which employs three approaches which includes family case work, family group work, and family therapy?

• Family counseling

• Family life education

• Family planning

• Family care

Self-determination as one of the principles of social work refers to _____________?

• Recognizing and understanding the client’s own unique characteristics and using different principles and methods for each client.

• Respecting the clients as they are under any circumstances and understands the meaning and causes of the client’s behavior

• A client is made to understand that s/he is expected to participate in the entire process

• A. The principle which empowers the clients to determine their needs and how they should meet.

Which principle of social work recognizes the individual or people’s strengths and potentials, weaknesses, and limitations.

• Acceptance

• Work self-awareness

• Self-determination

• Individualization

One of the core values of social work is each person has the responsibility as a member of the society to seek ways of fulfillment that contribute to common good. This refers to _____?

• Right to self-fulfillment

• Responsibility to common good

• Responsibility of the society

• Client-worker relationship

Which of the following is a channel of communication?

• Facebook

• Radio

• Telephone

• all of the above

Diary, prayer, meditation are best manifestations of what classification of communication?

• Interpersonal

• Dyadic

• Group

• Intrapersonal

Which of the following defines context as an element of communication?

• Response or reaction of the receiver to the message received

• Consequence or result

• Interference that prevents a message from being accurately understood or interpreted.

• The situation in which the communication takes place

What is the other term to refer journalism?

• Press

• Media

• Journalist

• none of the above