Third Week

SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS

Multiple Choice.

1. The underlying philosophy for rural community development.

a. Self-help
b. Social amelioration
c. Social defense
d. Social control

2. President E. Marcos signed RA 5416 which is known as Social Welfare Act.

a. Changing DSWD into MSSD
b. Elevating SWA into Department
c. Changing MSSD to DSWD
d. None of the above

3. Social welfare interventions designed to promote human resource developments, social change and people’s participation in
decision-making and nation-building.
a. Preventive
b. Curative
c. Developmental
d. Remedial

4. These refer to activities which secure and protect the well-being of all children in their physical, intellectual and emotional
development.
a. Family welfare
b. Youth welfare
c. Child welfare
d. Emergency welfare

5. This concept refers to the conservation, protection and preservation of human life and the development of human capacities.
a. Liberation theology
b. Human resource development
c. Economic development
d. Charity

6. The first family welfare agency with the objective of assuring community responsibility for social welfare.
a. PRRM
b. PBSP
c. Associated Charities, Inc. of Manila
d. UNICEF-assisted social services

7. Rising expectations, mass media, science & technology, industrialization & urbanization influence the making of policy which may
be considered as ______.
a. Economic factor
b. Environmental factor
c. Ecclesiastical factor
d. educational factor

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8. A pioneer in public welfare, he was later acknowledge as Father of Philippine Social Welfare.
a. Pres. Elpidio Quirino
b. Pres. Manuel Quezon
c. Mr. Gregorio Feliciano
d. Dr. Jose Fabella

9. San Lazaro Hospital, San Juan De Dios and Hospicio de San Jose were institutions established by ______.
a. UNICEF-assisted Social Services, Inc.
b. Religious Orders
c. Philippine Government
d. Japanese Government

10. A coordinating council established to insure the implementation of laws and provision of programs and services to promote the
welfare of handicapped persons.
a. Commission of Population
b. National Nutrition Council
c. National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons
d. National Manpower & Development Council

11. This refers to the arrangement whereby children below 6 years old are provided part time substitute parental care while their
mothers are working and/or outside the home.
a. Residential Care
b. Mini Home Industry
c. Foster Home Care
d. Day Care Services

12. A condition or situation in which something necessary is required or wanted.

a. Social reality
b. Social response
c. Basic need
d. None of the above

13. A condition when one is unable to sustain life without assistance from the community.
a. Absolute poverty
b. Relative poverty
c. Crisis intervention
d. Coping mechanism

14. These are Filipino ethnic groups who retain their traditional lifestyles and have not integrated into or assimilated by the majority
of the population.
a. Disabled groups
b. Agrarian Reform beneficiaries
c. Cultural communities
d. Disadvantaged women

15. An organization, public, private or quasi-public which provides programs and services to promote the well-being of individuals,
groups and communities who are experiencing some difficulty in the management of their own affairs.
a. Social development
b. Primary setting
c. Secondary setting
d. Social agency

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16. Refers to programs and services and other activities provided under various auspices to concretely answer the needs and
problems of the members of society.
a. Social concerns
b. Social services
c. Social welfare
d. Social development

17. An office with primary responsibility to represent free of charge, indigent persons and members of the family in all civil,
administrative and criminal cases.
a. National Commission on the Role of Women
b. Civil Liberties Union
c. Public Attorney’s Office
d. Council for the Welfare of Children

18. The policy of the government to gradually provide total medical care plan based on concepts of health care.
a. Phil Health
b. Social Security Law
c. Social Insurance Law
d. Social Welfare Act

19. The law which established an integrated system for the control and education of begging and providing penalties for both “the
giver” and the “receiver”.
a. Anti-Drug Law
b. National Development Plan
c. Solicitation Permit Law
d. Anti-Mendicancy Law

20. This refers to the promotion of self-reliant communities intended to encourage greater local autonomy and to provide effective
planning and coordination.
a. Rural development
b. CD
c. Urban development
d. Land reform

21. A type of service extended to help individuals/families who are in crisis/stressful situations brought about by social
disorganizations, natural and man-made disasters, dislocations and/or displacement.
a. Social security
b. Disaster relief
c. Emergency assistance
d. Self-employment

22. This entity has the objective of promoting the highest standard of professional training in social work.
a. DSWD
b. NASWEI
c. PASWEI
d. Philippine Association of Board Examiners

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23. A program of interventive techniques or measures focused on the preventive or resolution of problems of role functioning and
relationships that threaten the stability of the basic unit of society.
a. Youth welfare
b. Family welfare
c. Child welfare
d. None of the above

24. The method of intervention used by the social worker will be determined largely by the agency’s ______.
a. Functions
b. Policies
c. Programs
d. All of the above

25. The first family welfare agency to use social casework as a method of social work intervention.
a. Associated Charities of Manila
b. Gota de Leche
c. Settlement House
d. Community Chest

26. Refers to the desirability of providing social resources for the satisfaction of human needs for the good of human welfare.
a. Concept of social provision
b. Concept of human potentials & capacities
c. None of the above

27. This term refers to the application of an array of methodologies and processes by the social worker designed to sustain selected
helping processes.
a. Advocacy
b. Intervention
c. Service delivery
d. Strategies

28. During the Spanish regime, these entities were responsible for providing assistance to the needy.
a. Neighborhood & communities
b. Church & convents
c. Local council
d. Hacienderos

29. A critical factor in policy formulation, program planning and evaluation.

a. Elite groups
b. People’s participation
c. Social agency boards
d. None of the above

30. This term refers to a set of normative expectations held by other for the occupation of any given position.
a. Performance
b. Functioning
c. Role
d. Status

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31. The first Executive Director of CWAFPI.
a. Josefa Llanes Escoda
b. Mita Pardo de Tavera
c. Josefa Jara Martinez
d. Estifania Aldaba Lim

32. All are the objectives of PASWEI, except:

a. To work for a better public understanding & acceptance of social work as a profession
b. To expand professional activities of the association through the organization of chapters
c. To promote & maintain a professional standard of social work practice
d. None of the above

33. This concept submits that it is right and just for man to help man.
a. Humanitarian goal
b. Philosophical view
c. Social control goal
d. Anthropological view

34. Social work is what the public or those who are engaged in it at any given time. New interests and activities are constantly added
while others become obsolete.
a. Pragmatic view
b. Philosophical view
c. Anthropological view
d. None of the above

35. Refers to the theories and professional skills which serves as a base in terms of which the professional internalizes his operations
in concrete situations.
a. Professional authority
b. Regulative code of ethics
c. Systematic body of knowledge
d. Community sanction

36. Knowledge which comes in the form of borrowed knowledge from different professions and disciplines.
a. Assumptive knowledge
b. Tested knowledge
c. Hypothetical knowledge
d. None of the above

37. Unproved knowledge which still have to undergo transformation into tested knowledge.
a. Tested knowledge
b. Hypothetical knowledge
c. Assumptive knowledge
d. None of the above

38. You are accepted and respected because of your professional training or background.
a. Community sanction
b. Professional culture
c. Professional authority
d. Regulative code of ethics

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39. It serves to check possible abuses which can arise out of a profession’s exercise of authority, and its accompanying powers and
privileges.
a. Community sanction
b. Professional culture
c. Professional authority
d. Regulative code of ethics

40. Refers to the accepted standards of behavior, of doing things, which guides the professional in various situation.
a. Community sanction
b. Professional authority
c. Regulative code of ethics
d. Professional culture

41. These are all legislations concerning women, except ______.

a. RA 7877
b. RA 7432
c. RA 6725
d. RA 7192

42. It places women on equal footing with men.

a. EO 227
b. RA 6725
c. RA 7192
d. RA 7877

43. Known as the Senior Citizen Act.

a. RA 9994
b. RA 9257
c. RA 7877
d. RA 6725

44. An act declaring sexual harassment unlawful in the employment or training development.
a. EO 227
b. RA 7877
c. RA 7192
d. RA 6725

45. Known as the Magna Carta for the Disabled.

a. RA 7432
b. EO 209
c. RA 7277
d. RA 9442

46. The administrator and leader in the organization.

a. President
b. Executive
c. Trustee
d. Administrative officer

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47. These are all qualities of the executive except: ______.
a. Leadership qualities
b. Provide continuous evaluation to improve agency standards
c. Broad vision and deep insight into people & situation
d. Good public relations

48. The law which provides for the protection of women against discrimination in the field of employment.
a. RA 7432
b. RA 7277
c. RA 6525
d. RA 7192

49. It is a verbal or written or implied expression of agency purpose that provides the guideline for executive action.
a. Agreement
b. Standard operating procedure
c. Policy
d. Memorandum

50. A process of developing guidelines for an agreed course of action.

a. Policy formulation
b. Policy
c. CD
d. None of the above

51. Charting out or translating agency policies into programs and services.
a. Programming
b. Planning
c. Targeting
d. Visioning

52. It is developing a set of planned purposive activities

a. Planning
b. Programming
c. Organizing
d. Staffing

53. To limit the number of person to be supervised.

a. Division of labor
b. Scalar chain
c. Span of control
d. Line and staff principle

54. Known as Women in Development and Nation Building Act.

a. RA 7877
b. RA 7192
c. EO 227
d. RA 7432

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55. Overseeing, guiding and supervising people in the organization.
a. Controlling
b. Supervising
c. Coordinating
d. Directing

56. Seeing to it that the objectives of the organization are carried out.
a. Controlling
b. Directing
c. Supervising
d. Coordinating

57. The heart of program development.

a. Public relations
b. Evaluation
c. Recording
d. Reporting

58. It provides a direction for future courses of action.

a. Recording
b. Reporting
c. Evaluation
d. Research

59. These are all functions of the Executive, except _______.

a. Organize the staff
b. Represent the agency in coordinating councils & other similar bodies in the community
c. Professional competence
d. Guide and direct the planning process

60. Determination of needs through a systematic study and making efforts to meet them.
a. Effectiveness
b. Equity
c. Responsiveness
d. Efficiency

61. The ______ is/are directly responsible for fiscal control in the organization.
a. Executive
b. Agency board
c. Staff
d. All of the above

62. It is the most important qualification of an agency executive.

a. Professional training
b. Leadership qualities
c. Public relations
d. All of the above

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63. An individual may be said to be socially functional when he is able to cope with social relations and tasks. It means ______.
a. Effectiveness in task performance
b. Responsibility to others
c. Satisfaction of self
d. All of the above

64. All are indicators of social development, except ______.

a. A greater social mobility
b. Increase in income
c. A better system of socio-economic stratification
d. None of the above

65. A mechanism which continually exerts efforts to make members conform to what the family perceives as desirable.
a. Behavioral modification
b. Social control
c. Law
d. None of the above

66. It refers to the output, result of the services given. It is measured both qualitatively & quantitatively.
a. Equity
b. Efficiency
c. Effectiveness
d. Responsiveness

67. These are all major functions of the family except ______.
a. Reproduction
b. Biological maintenance
c. Socialization
d. None of the above

68. Dynamic interplay of forces in which contact between persons results in modification of the attitudes and behavior of the
participants.
a. Communication
b. Group process
c. Social interaction
d. All of the above

69. It is the network of psychological interaction that goes on in every group. It is everything that happens in a group, and is affected
by the kind and quality of interaction among the members.
a. Social interaction
b. Social process
c. Group process
d. None of the above

70. He advanced the idea that the fate of the individual poor deserved attention.
a. Martin Luther
b. Juan Luis de Vives
c. Benjamin Thompson
d. Professor Busch

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71. The extent to which a program has reached the stated objectives, the impact of services in the community.
a. Effectiveness
b. Equity
c. Responsiveness
d. Efficiency

72. It is type the prototype of casework.

a. Individualization
b. Individual approach
c. Principle of investigation
d. None of the above

73. These are institutions established by the Americans for special groups, except ______.
a. Care of the insane
b. Care of the blind
c. Care of the mentally deficient
d. Care of the elderly

74. Pioneering in casework.

a. London Charity Organization
b. COS
c. Settlement house
d. None of the above

75. Period of the birth of voluntary organizations for social welfare in the Philippines.
a. Japanese period
b. Spanish period
c. American period
d. Post War

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Answer Key:

(Social Welfare Policies and Programs – Third Week)

1. A 21. C 41. B 61. A

2. B 22. B 42. B 62. A
3. C 23. B 43. A 63. A
4. C 24. D 44. B 64. B
5. B 25. A 45. C 65. B
6. C 26. A 46. B 66. B
7. A 27. B 47. B 67. D
8. D 28. B 48. C 68. C
9. B 29. B 49. C 69. C
10. C 30. C 50. A 70. B
11. D 31. A 51. B 71. A
12. C 32. D 52. B 72. B
13. A 33. A 53. C 73. D
14. C 34. A 54. B 74. B
15. D 35. C 55. D 75. C
16. B 36. B 56. A
17. C 37. B 57. B
18. A 38. C 58. C
19. D 39. C 59. C
20. B 40. D 60. C

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