Study Guide—Fall 2008
HS 101 Intro to Human Services
STUDY GUIDE
HS 101 Intro to Human Services
Fall 2008
1.The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601 kept the administration of poor relief at the local level.
2.Settlement houses are neighborhood-based facilities established in most urban centers to bring together people of different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to share knowledge, values, and skills for their mutual benefit.
3.Hull House was the first and most famous of the Settlement Houses founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
4.Prior to the 1929 Stock Market Crash, there was an illusion of economic stability throughout the 1920’s. Because of the rising income of the rich, the stock market began to soar. It appeared to be a sound investment. Even those who could not afford it, boughton credit. When stock prices fell, people could not pay their loans and they lost everything.
5.The Great Depression was the most catastrophic economic crisis the United States has ever seen.
6.The New Deal was the name President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving reform to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression.
7.The most important among all the programs President Roosevelt initiated was the Social Security Act.
8.The National Mental Health Act of 1946 provided a funded mechanism for research and training programs and for state assistance in establishing community mental health service.
9.The Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case ruled that separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities and thus violated the 14th Amendment. This victory paved the way for integration and the Civil Rights Movement.
10.The War on Poverty is the name for the plans and programs Lyndon B. Johnson proposed in response to the difficult economic conditions and rising poverty of the 1960’s. His aim was to encourage economic stability, equal opportunity and realize the Great Society.
11.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited racial and/or religious discrimination and outlawed segregation in schools and public places.
12.Race is the major subdivision of the human species whose distinguished characteristics are genetically transmitted.
13.Culture is the customs, habits, skills, technology, arts, values, ideology, science, and religious and political behavior of people in a specific time period.
14.An Ethnic Group is a distinct group of people who share a common language, set of customs, history, culture, race, religion, or origin.
15.Ethics pertain to the beliefs we hold about what constitutes right conduct. Ethics are moral principles adopted by an individual or group to provide rules for right conduct.
16.Values are the customs, standards of conduct, and principles considered desirable by a culture, a group of people, or an individual.
17.Confidentiality is a principle of ethics according to which the social worker or other professional may not disclose information without the client’s consent.
18.The Duty to Warn suggests that when a therapist’s client is threatening violence to a specific victim, the therapist has a professional responsibility to warn both the intended victim and the appropriate authorities (police) of the danger.
19.A professional discipline is defined by a common body of knowledge, a code of ethics, and a concern for peers.
20.Chemical dependency affects people with varied personalities, cultures and lifestyles. To be effective in counseling these diverse populations, a counselor must understand his/her perceptions of addiction and realize that perceptions of others may differ and understand that skills, methods, and goals need to be appropriate for the experience and lifestyles of the culturally different client.
21.Ethics is defined by the principles of morality, the science of the good, the nature of the right, and the rules of conduct.
22.Multi-cultural means growing up with more than one cultural orientation.
23.Women, adolescents, gay or lesbian, and elderly are all considered special populations.
24.A significant barrier to women seeking treatment is lack of child services.
25.The style of counseling in which a counselor does not fear racial or cultural differences and is aware of his/her attitudes, making efforts to be actively involved professionally and personally in a solution to racial problems, is known as the “Culturally-Liberated” Counselor.
26.Physiological, sociological, and psychological factors should be considered when looking at special populations and the etiology (cause of chemical dependence).
27.Drug and Alcohol treatment programs for people with handicaps must include an awareness of the particular aspects of handicaps and be integrated with the general population.
28.Professional competence means knowing ones limitations and abilities.
29.Women are viewed as a special population because traditional treatment is geared toward men, not women.
30.Common reasons why people with disabilities use alcohol and drugs are to ease physical and mental pain; low self-worth; prescribed by physicians; isolation.
31.The style of counseling in which a counselor has little or no prior exposure to a minority culture and whose fear causes him/her to be ineffective in working with a minority client is known as Cultural Ignorance.
32.The elderly population develop substance abuse problems because of a change in metabolism; isolation from family and friends; self-diagnosing and self-medication with OTC drugs; and, multiple physical problems with multiple medications.
33.Professionals are legally obligated to breach confidentiality when a client is dangerous to self; a client is dangerous to others; in a medical emergency; a client commits child abuse (including neglect) or elder abuse.
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