It is very difficult to practice social work unless one likes people, likes to be around people, has skill in talking with and otherwise relating to people, and prefers being sociable to being isolated. Back to the Quiz 2. 2. Social workers should never discuss their clients except in the context of working with another organization or agency to help their client overcome his or her problems.
TRUE Confidentiality is one of social work's most important ethical principles.
Back to the Quiz 3. 3. In all but the most extreme and dangerous cases of child abuse or neglect, the social worker's effort is to reunite the family and to keep the child in his or her home. TRUE Social policy and social research findings suggest that children are nearly always better off in their own homes than in adoptive or foster homes unless their parents are abusive, neglectful, or otherwise incapable of caring for them. Back to the Quiz 4. 4. Effective social workers are able to communicate to their clients that they accept them, want to be involved with them in a professional relationship, and want to maintain positive relationships with them.