SOCIAL GROUPWORK

1. It is where the social group work originated

a. United States b. London c. England d. Europe

2. The first teachers of groupwork in the Philippines were mostly recruited from:
a. YMCA b. Hospicio de San Jose c. Philippine School of Social Work

3. The first agency in the Philippines where the group work was demonstrated to
supplement and complement agency services was:
a. UNICEF b. Jose Abad Santos Memorial School c. DSWD d. PYWCC

4. Employ the social group work method to promote responsible parenthood, vocational
efficiency and citizenship training with a group of mothers
a. Integrated Human resource development program
b. National vocational rehabilitation center for disabled
c. Foster parents plan Inc.
d. Kanunlaran Multi-purpose Center

5. Which is true about the Young Women Christian Association

I. It’s target group both in school and out of school youth
II. It caters the need of employed female
III. It’s programs focus is inclusive of spiritual and economic concerns
IV. Group solidarity and group accomplishments are emphasized
a. I and Iv b. II and III c. all of the above d. none of the above

6. Group work is a basic aspect of social work practice that uses social relationships within
the group experience as a means to individual growth and development.
a. Harleigh Trecker c. Wilson and Ryland
b. Grace Coyle d. Margaret Hartfold e. Sarri and Galinsky

7. It is the heart of the social group work process

a. guided group interaction c. Phases in group Development
b. Group Dynamics d. helping process e. program media

8. Among the first social group workers in the government housing community centers are
graduates of:
a. Centro Escolar university
b. Philippine Women’s University
c. University of the Philippines
d. Philippine School of Social Work
e. University of Santo Tomas

9. This purpose of using group service by agencies is carried out by organizing groups that
are intended primarily to help the members to acquire the values, attitudes and norms of
the society of which they are part.

a. Developmental b. Treatment c. Socialization d. Recreation e. Prevention

10. Group members receive psychological rewards from the experience of helping others
with their problems.
a. Blessing b. helper therapy c. Karma d. self-esteem e. self-actualization
11. A gambling den in a remote rural area in the Zamboanga del Sur province is operating
very near the school premises, resulting in school truancy and other problems on the part
of teen-age children like hanging around with undesirable characters and talking
alcoholic drinks. A group of mothers was able to pressure the town mayor to order the
closure of the gambling den. What category of group use is manifested?
a. For change in social situation or conditions outside the group
b. For collective problem solving
c. For effect on participants
d. For un-learning
e. For rehabilitation

12. This principle is premised on the assumption that there has been established acceptance
between the group members and the worker.
a. Principle of planned group formation
b. Principle of guided group interaction
c. Principle of democratic self-determination
d. Principle of flexible functional organizer
e. Principle of purposeful worker-group relationship

13. Working with the group as medium of change and target of change falls on:
a. Intergroup level c. intragroup level
b. Extragroup level d. all of the above e. none of the above

14. Group process and group dynamics are the same

a. Yes b. No c. Maybe d. in some instances

15. This refers to the dynamic interplay of forces in which contact between persons results in
modification of attitudes and behaviour of participants in a group.
a. Socialization b. group process c. social interaction d. interview

16. The following are psychological reaction patterns considered as inputs in the group
process except:
a. Subjugation b. displacement c. integration d. elimination e. alliance

17. All of the following are group interaction patterns considered as inputs in the group
process except:
I. Cooperation, competition, conflict
II. Accommodation, assimilation
III. Suggestion, sympathy IV. Identification, imitation
a. I and II b. III and IV c. I and III d. II and IV e. none of the above

18. The Filipino’s feeling of adequacy is nurtured not from his own right as an individual but
from his being part of a group which is bound together by a powerful authority figure.
Miclat pg. 30
a. Segmented b. Structured c. Nature d. Strong Family Orientation e. compact

19. The target of influence is the individual member, and the source of influence is the group.
a. Group a medium of change
b. Group as target of change
c. Group as agent of change
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
20. Which is true about a group’s social environment?
I. Separate social affiliation
II. Personal environments
III. Objects collectively encountered
IV. Persons collectively encountered
a. III and IV b. I and II c. II and IVd. all of the above e. none of the above

21. It is when the prospective members meet for the first time.
a. Group formation phase c. public pre-group phase
b. Convening Phase d. initial stage e. orientation stage

22. This phase is the first two periods of strong attachment to other members, to the group,
and to the worker.
a. Convening phase
b. Group formation phase
c. Maintenance phase
d. Group integration, disintegration and reintegration phase
e. Pre-group phase

23. Interpersonal ties increase and a sense of group bond or “we felling” begins to become
apparent
a. Power and control phase c. intermediate phase
b. Intimacy d. integration, disintegration and reintegration
e. all of the above

24. According to Sue Henrey, the key dynamic of formation is:

a. Partnership b.. conflict c. denial d. contact e. union

25. Conflict in the group is competition on:

a. Services and resources
b. Attention of the worker
c. Dominance of one’s needs and desires
d. Affection from group members

26. Group goals and norms evolve and the group’s role system begins to develop during this
phase.
a. Group formation
b. Pre-group
c. Group functioning and maintenance
d. Integration, disintegration and reintegration
e. Termination

27. Which is odd one out/

a. Maturation b. problem solving and stabilization c. differentiation
d. all of the above e. none of the above

28. Emergent structure or the stabilization of leader-follower patterns and the firming of the
status hierarchy based on skills appropriate for the purpose of the group is one of the
observable aspects of this phase.
a. Integration, disintegration and reintegration
b. in Integration, disintegration or reintegration
c. group functioning and maintenance
 d. termination phase

29. refers to the period after the group ceases to function and involves plan to continue to
meet as a group if the group desires to.
a. Post-affiliation
b. Integration, disintegration or reintegration
c. Differentiation
d. Problem solving and stabilization
e. Post-termination

30. It is the actual ending, meaning the last meeting.

a. Culmination b. termination c. last session d. all of the above e. none

31. The group is prepared for its imminent ending.

a. Pre-termination b. evaluation c. culmination d. all of the above e. none

32. It comprises the beginning phase of the process

a. Assessment and planning
b. Data gathering
c. Pre- affiliation
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

33. It is the most important aspect of the group service conceptualization effort and should
emanate from the agency’s purpose or function.
I. Purpose of the group program
II. Target clientele
III. Eligibility requirements
IV. Services
a. I only b. II only c. I and II d. III and IV e. all of the above

34. In social work with groups, assessment and action planning are:
a. Generally undertaken first with the prospective group members individually,and then
with the group as a whole
b. Always undertaken first with the prospective group members individually, and then
with the group as a whole
c. Generally undertaken first with the organized group members individually, and then
with the group as a whole
d. Always undertaken first with the organized group members individually, and then
with the group as a whole
e. Always and generally undertaken simultaneously with the prospective organized
group members individually, and with the group as a whole

35. These are discussed during pre-group formation inerviews.

a. Agency purpose for group program, agency expectations in terms of participation
b. Agency and its services
c. Activities, duration of the program and basis for the termination of membership
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
36. There are tools and the means used in social group work to meet its purposes and
objecctives.
a. Activity designs
b. Program media
c. Modules
d. Agency services
e. Logistical support

37. Refers to the selection of group members and deciding the size of the group.
a. Recruitment b. hiring c. group composition d. group focused assessment
f. group formation

38. it is the process of getting a group organized so that it can start to function and move
toward the attainment of its planned goals.
a. Group composition
b. Group organizing
c. Group assessment
d. Levelling
e. Group formation

39. The worker’s own reason for the group’s exixtence can be analysed in terms of the
following.
i. Agency’s program purpose
ii. Composite of member’s individual purposes
iii. Workers goal for individual members
iv. Member’s understanding of the purpose of the group Mendoza p. 83
a. I and III b. II and Iv c. I and Iv d. II and III e. all of the above

40. The product of a worker-group interaction process.

a. Group system perspective
b. Output
c. Group goals
d. Worker group relationship
e. Group process

41. It is when the worker and the group members discuss areas of mutual concern, consider
different means to pursue these concerns, sort out differences and incorporate individual
interests into common group oriented goals
a. Group think
b. Bargaining
c. Exploration
d. Brainstorming
e. Group interview

42. It refers to all activities, worker intervention and group action which the group system
directs toward the achievement of individual and group goals.
a. Program media
b. Plan implementation
c. Action planning
d. Modules
e. Group interview
43. The activity of the group worker to keep track of progress or development of individuals
through group activities imply the role of:
a. Organizer
b. Guide
c. Supervisor
d. Observer
e. Recorder

44. By interpreting meaning of data and behaviour of group members, the group worker
portray the role of:
a. Facilitator
b. Educator
c. Observer
d. Information giver e. guide
45. The following factors are most likely to influence the role of a worker except:
I. Agency function and scope
II. Interest , skills, abilities and limitations of members
III. Skill and competence of the worker
IV. Type of group
a. III b. II c. I d. all of the above e. none of the above

46. Ability to guide group thinking so that the interests and needs will be revealed and
understood.
a. Skill in differential diagnosis and treatment
b. Skill in using agency and community resources
c. Skill in dealing with group feeling
d. Skill in programdevelopment

47. Saying what you really think when you feel it should be expressed, rather than keeping
your ideas, opinions and feelings to youself.
a. Honesty
b. Levelling
c. Ventilation
d. Disclosure
e. Expression

48. Refer to planed group processes designed to communicate new knowledge and ideas; to
change/modify negative attitudes, values and behaviour and to promote or strengthen
relationships among the target group members.
a. Group dynamics
b. Helping process
c. Phases of group development
d. Interventive activities
e. Treatment plan

49. In this stance, the worker sees himself as a member of the group, although one with
special expertise and different roles and functions form the members.
a. Permissive stance
b. Facilitating stance
c. Direct stance
d. Flexible stance
50. This theme of developmental model responds to the question, : “ what are the worker’s
functions and relations with the group?”
a. Phenomenological
b. Humanistic
c. Developmental
d. Reality-oriented

51. Operational purpose is the area where agency purpose, group purpose and worker’s
professional purpose overlap
a. Robert Vinter
b. Margaret Hartfold
c. Emanuel Tropp
d. William Schwartz
e. Thelma Lee Mendoza

52. It is seen as the major means to realize both group effectiveness and individual gain.
a. Self-direction
b. Self-appraisal
c. Cooperation
d. Program media
e. Group dynamics

53. There is a testing of the group worker and other members, and an attempt to formalize
relationships and to create a status hierarchy.
a. Differentiation
b. Intimacy
c. Power and control
d. Pre-affiliation
e. Separation

54. It is the tendency to concentrate attention on an object, an idea, an activity or situation.

a. Focus
b. Needs
c. Wants
d. Obsession
e. Interest

55. It is general class or group activities,each of which consists on an interconnected

sequential series of social behaviour.
a. Modules b. activity designs c. project d. session e. program

56. Which is least appropriate description for a person as a social being?

a. He needs food to survive, clothing and shelter to protect him
b. He provides means to ensure the security of his future
c. He ventures into source of living
d. He needs to look good in the eyes of other people and to win their respect.
e. He needs security form danger

57. These are the behaviours that are consciously directed toward common goal efforts.
a. Instrumental behaviour d. self dtermination
b. Interpersonal ralations e. defense mechanism
c. Expressive behaviour
58. Which is the least unlikely to be indicators of expressive behaviours?
a. Supporting and accepting others
b. Carrying out individual task
c. Approval and disapproval
d. Submitting to or rejecting authority
e. Performing of roles

59. This process involves the client’s presentation of his needs or problem to the worker as
he sees it.
a. Assessment b. interview c. process recording d. fact-finding e. none

60. It is the distinguishing characteristics of the remedial model.

a. Treatment b. view of deviance c. center-based d. diagnostic statement e. none

61. In the Remedial model it is at this stage when the worker seeks the emergence of group
goals, activities and relationships which can render the group effective for treatment.
a. Diagnosis and treatment planning
b. Group composition and formation
c. Group and development and treatment
d. Intake

62. This means of influence is seen as focusing on the psychological relationships that are
established between the worker and the group members. Worker is object of
identification and drives.
a. Worker as motivator and stimulator
b. Worker as central person
c. Worker as symbol and spokesman
d. Worker as executive controller of member’s roles

63. This means of influence recognizes the importance of the worker’s use of her interaction
with her clients being a definer of individual goals and tasks.
a. Worker as motivator and stimulator
b. Worker as symbol and spokesman
c. Worker as executive controller of member’s roles
d. Worker as central person

64. Growth group’ specific objectives are the following except:

a. To make people better
b. To develop group trust and in-depth relationship
c. To promote health and physical well-being
d. To encourage constructive changes in behaviour and relationships

65. This is an example of a natural group.

a. Fraternity b. Neighbourhood gang c. PTA group d. Boy scout group

66. Which is odd one out?

a. Task group b. treatment group c. social group d. interest group

67. This is the main characteristic of a closed group in social work.

a. Membership is based on strict criteria
b. No new members can join after the group has been formed
 c. The group has to follow rules set by the agency
d. The group does not interact with other groups

68. This is the phase in group development when the group has stabilized and group bond
and a commitment to the group are observable.
A. group formation
B. Group functioning and maintenance phase
C. Integration, disintegration and reintegration
D. Group organization

69. One of these activities is not a program media in social group work.
a. Games b. Role play c. Group dynamics exercises d. counselling

70. The rules agreed on by the group during the formation stage is called:
a. Group Values b. group guidelines c. group norms d. group standards

71. Whatever is the agency’s purpose for a group program, these have to be conducted to
obtain at least basic or some other necessary information on the prospective group
members.
a. Pre-group interviews b. collateral interviews c. individual intake d. inquest

72. This is not one of the worker’s tasks before a group is organized
a. Conceptualizing, preparing the group program
b. Recruiting members
c. Preparing logistics
d. Defining group goals

73. The socialization goals that were pursued in group-serving agencies like YWCA during
the American Colonial Period in the Philippines focused on activities for this objective:
A. Recreation
B. Skills and development
C. Personality / character development
D. Human relations training

74. Conceptualizing the group program is an activity that is done during this period in the
group’s development
a. Private pre-group phase
b. Public pre-group phase
c. Convening phase
d. Formation phase
75. Using the group for collective problem solving means that the worker weill help the
group to:
a. Work on common concerns
b. Acquire knowledge
c. Achieve a sense of belonging
d. Improve senses of identity

76. The agency’s purpose for offering a group program usually emanates from:
a. The prospective members’ motivation for membership
b. The agency’s general purpose or function
c. The workers’ judgement to program priority
d. None of the above
77. This is an important characteristic of the group functioning and maintenance phase in
group development
a. Lowering the defences and increased sharing in the group
b. An emergent structure becomes observable
c. Group goal achieving plans are worked on
d. All of the above

78. A social work group’s social environment includes:

a. The personal environments of its members
b. The person/units collectively encountered by the group
c. The social agency
d. All of the above

79. Which one in this list is not a perspective for analysing goal formulation in social work
with groups?
a. The member’s perspective
b. The worker’s perspective
c. Group system perspective
d. Community’s perspective

80. One of the list is not a factor to consider in the selection of group program media
a. Woker’s professional preference
b. Physical, emotional and social characteristics of members
c. Worker’s skills and capacitities
d. Group goals

81. This group record is essential to the worker’s doing a terminal group evaluation
a. Intake records
b. Collateral interview records
c. Statement of group problem, group goals and action

82. Among the uses of program media in group work would be:
a. Promote group interaction
b. To entertain members
c. To minimize the worker’s interventive activities
d. All of the above

83. Choose which one of the following is not a consequence of a worker’s use of the group in
order to effect change in its participants.
a. Resocialization
b. Attitude / value change
c. Policy change
d. Change in self-concept

84. All of the following speaks of developmental approach as reality oriented except:
a. The life of the group is seen as a continuing series of engagements with group task
b. The group’s existence means that the members cope with the expectations relating to
their common task
c. The realities of the group situation are the major guide to perceiving and evaluating
what is happening
 d. Social behaviour is viewed primarily in terms of conscious major guide to perceiving
and evaluating what is happening

85. Self-help groups are usully set up for a mental health goal. This is usually focused on a
single, unacceptable situation such as:
a. Alcoholism
b. Disaster
c. Unemployment
d. School drop-out

Case -
In working with a group of children addicted to online games, the social worker was successful
in securing from the barangay officials an ordinance regulating the time for the internet café
owners to allow students inside the computer cafes and also to supervise and monitor the
activities of students during the allowed period. Also, part of the activities is a trialogue among
the adviser/ teacher of the students, their parents, and the owner of the internet café to discuss on
the group’s problem on addiction to online games.

86. Coordinating with the barangay council as an extra group means of influence imply:
a. Social roles and rlations
b. Social environment
c. Social system
d. Significant others

87. In the activity involving the teacher and the owner of the internet café, the teacher and the
internet café owner imply:
a. Indirect means of influence
b. Social system
c. Direct means of influence
d. Social environment
88. Working with the parents and teachers shows the worker’s understanding of:
a. Direct means of influence
b. Worker as symbol and spokesman
c. Significant others
d. Nature of group activities

89. After exhausting all efforts to mobilize resources for a formal education scholarship
which unfortunately is not feasible, a social worker organizing a group of out of school
youth suggested that the group pursue a housekeeping training from TESDA instead. The
action of the worker portrays:
a. Direct means of influence
b. Worker as motivator and stimulator
c. Nature of group activities
d. Worker as executive controller of member’s roles

90. Following a three consecutive group sessions( with group of mothers assessed to have
poor home management skills) the worker found the need to innovate things and
activities done with the group. Aling Linda (who lacks self-confidence) was assigned by
the worker to lead a prayer and be he moderator of the open forum during their lecture
seminar. The worker’s action has something to do with:
a. Selection of group members
b. Indirect means of influence
c. Worker as executive controller of members’ roles
 d. Worker as motivator/stimulator

91. In working with groups in this approach, the social worker has two-client responsibility
a. Developmental
b. Remedial
c. Interactionist
d. Crisis intervention
e. Total family approach

92. These are interventions to effect change through intermediate interaction with a group
member.
a. Direct help
b. Direct means of influence
c. Instrumental behaviours
d. Group dynamics

93. It is an emotional reaction to a threatening event.

a. Crisis d. anxiety
b. Stress e. fear
c. Defense mechanism
94. In social work, crisis intervention approach is associated with the writings of:
a. Erich Gonzales
b. Howard Rapoport
c. Naomi Golan
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

95. It is the arrangement or the interrelation of all parts of a whole.

a. Homeostasis
b. System
c. Structure
d. Group
e. Hierarchy

96. Many individuals feel more comfortable, or are encouraged to participate and share ideas
because of the interaction that takes place in a group.
a. Uses of groups
b. Advantages of groups
c. Categories of groups
d. Group structure
e. Group process

97. Social work’s focus of concern is:

a. Person in his life situation
b. Person’s real situation
c. Client and problem
d. Man’s adjustment to his environment
e. Both C and D
f. Both B and C
98. An objective statement whether or not the defined goals were achieved.
a. Goal achievement
b. Recommendation
c. Evaluation
d. Group goals
e. Success

99. How often a member participate?

a. Distribution
b. Order of participation c. Content of interaction d. frequency

100. This model is off-shoot of the remedial model.

a. Psychosocial approach b. socialization model c. organizational/remedial model
d. crisis intervention e. psychological first
ANSWER KEY
1 B 51 C
2 A 52 A
3 D 53 C
4 C 54 E
5 D 55 E
6 B 56 D
7 A 57 A
8 C 58 C
9 C 59 E
10 B 60 B
11 A 61 C
12 E 62 B
13 C 63 A
14 B 64 C
15 C 65 B
16 B 66 A
17 E 67 B
18 D 68 B
19 A 69 D
20 D 70 C
21 B 71 B
22 B 72 D
23 E 73 C
24 E 74 A
25 C 75 A
26 A 76 B
27 E 77 D
28 78 D
29 E 79 D
30 B 80 A
31 A 81 C
32 A 82 A
33 A 83 C
34 A 84 B
35 D 85 A
36 B 86 C
37 C 87 D
38 E 88 C
39 A 89 B
40 C 90 C
41 C 91 C
42 B 92 B
43 D 93 A
44 B 94 C
45 E 95 C
46 D 96 B
47 B 97 E
48 A 98 A
49 B 99 D
50 B 100 C