32. Skills and techniques that are seen as essential for a case worker working with children
placed in a shelter home are all the following except :

(^) Active listening

(B) Showing empathy in assessing the child’s situation and vulnerability
(C) Meeting the demands of the family
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D) Ability to plan for referral, network and mobilize resources

33. A child has been brought to the social welfare institution. The social worker undertakes to
interact with the child, attempts to speak in her native language and elicits some smile from

the child as the child feels the social worker is not speaking her language properly. The social
worker holds interactive session with the child on the second day with some toys and books
and tries to find out what interests her. As the social worker builds rapport she shares about
herself as part of self-disclosure and asks the child to share about herself. She uses some
picture cards and tries to understand the child, her likes and dislikes, tracing the journey of
the child to the institution, what issues were there which made her run-away from home.

These efforts of the social worker could be best represented by one among the choices given
below. Choose only one answer :

(A) Interacting with the child
(B) Understanding the social and psychological context of the child by active listening

(C) Fulfilling the requirements of the agency regarding interviewing all children who
are brought to the agency

(D) Fulfilling her own requirements for understanding children in need of care and
protection

34. Which among the following statement(s) is correct regarding the use of the ecological systems
theory in case work practice?

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Social Workers using this approach rely on understanding the dynamic relationships
between human beings and their environment

The environmental considerations include those from the micro that is family and
neighbourhood to macro concerns as socio cultural, political and institutional
arrangements

The person has to be understood from their underprivileged status

There is a need to look at the administrative constraints and resources in helping

individuals
(¢) Only 0) and (ii) (B) Only ©) and (iii)
(C) Only 61) and (iv) (D) Only ©) and (iv)

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