PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION (OCTOBER 14-16, 2021)

I- MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 points)

Direction: Directions: Read carefully each questions and encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is believed to be acquired and preserved principally by three means “pakikisama”, euphemism

and “go-between”.
a. The Authority Values
b. “Amor Propio”
c. Smooth Interpersonal Relations
d. Social Acceptance
2. Who had also taken some social work courses in the United States, took over Mrs. Martinez’ job
at the Associated Charities?
a. Asuncion Perez
b. Josefa Jara Martinez
c. Don Miguel Lopes de Legaspi
d. None of the above
3. Man is part of the nature. He can be studied and understood scientifically as we do the rest of
nature.
a. Man as Social
b. Natural View
c. Democracy’s View of Man
d. Transcendental View
4. Type of field that provided jobs to trained social workers with the passage of a law in the late
fifties providing for the employment of social workers in public hospitals.
a. School field
b. Community Field
c. Health field
d. None of the above
5. It is the principle of social work that the social worker brings into the relationship with the client
her professional education and experience, and the agency’s support of her helping role in
keeping with its societal prescribed goals.
a. Acceptance of people as they are
b. Individualization of client
c. Client-worker relationship
d. Self-determination as a right of the client
6. It is the principle of social work that the worker does not do everything for the client; for she
knows that the client is capable of “Self-help”.
a. Acceptance of people as they are
b. Individualization of client
c. Client-worker relationship
d. Self-determination as a right of the client
7. This principle means that the social worker is always conscious that her role is to make use of her
professional relationship with her client in a way that will enhance primarily the client’s
development rather than her own
a. Acceptance of people as they are
b. Individualization of client
c. Worker self-awareness
d. Self-determination as a right of the client
8. It was considered pre-professional, however, as professional education was supposed to be
given only at the master’s level, available in the first three schools mentioned.
a. Undergraduate Curricula
b. Social Work Graduates
c. Social Work Practitioner
d. All of the above
9. Social Workers know that our personalistic culture often calls for the use of personal
“connections” to facilitate action on a client’s request.
a. Cultural and other realities
b. Advocacy
c. Conflicting loyalties
d. Manipulation
10. It is the concept that man can fulfill himself is premised on the belief that he is inherently endowed
with potentials and capacities.
a. equal opportunities
b. social responsibility
c. social provision
d. human potentials and capacities

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11. This concept is premised on the ideal of social justice, two elements of which are fairness and
equality.
a. equal opportunities
b. social responsibility
c. social provision
d. human potentials and capacities
12. The social worker’s humanity prevents her from remaining emotionally uninvolved in her
relationship with others, but credits her with the capacity to control the degree of her environment.
a. Individualization of client
b. Worker self-awareness
c. Self-determination as a right of the client
d. Controlled emotional involvement
13. It is the science that treats of moral and right conduct
a. Professional Ethics
b. Ethical Dilemmas
c. Ethics
d. All of the above
14. This principle tells us to appreciate the fact that no two persons (not even identical twins) are
exactly alike.
a. Individualization of client
b. Worker self-awareness
c. Self-determination as a right of the client
d. Controlled emotional involvement
15. They are discreet individuals who come together to form groups for their mutual protection and
safety.
a. Social
b. Asocial
c. Anti-social
d. Socialize
16. Refer to the sensitivity to personal affront and functions to protect the individual against loss of
social acceptance.
a. “Amor Propio”
b. Smooth Interpersonal Relations
c. Social Acceptance
d. The Authority Values
17. A community development agency to help with the problem of social unrest in the countryside.
a. PASWI
b. PACSA
c. NASWEI
d. All of the above
18. National organization for professional social workers in the country. It was founded on November
12, 1947 and was incorporated on April 18, 1948.
a. PASWI
b. PACSA
c. NASWEI
d. All of the above
19. “Social work problem-solving takes place within a meaningful worker-client relationship” puts the
emphasis on “relationship”.
a. Individualization of client
b. Worker self-awareness
c. Client-worker relationship
d. Controlled emotional involvement
20. It occurs when morals of an individual conflicts with a family member, a friend, their government
or multitudes of others.
a. Cultural and other realities
b. Advocacy
c. Conflicting loyalties
d. Manipulation
21. Third parties, who will carry a message, assuage a bruise or prevent an injury.
a. “bahala na” (fatalism)
b. “pakikisama”
c. “go-between” (tulay)
d. “walang pakialam” (non-interference)
22. The observance of a profession’s system of ethics is not free of problems.
a. Ethics
b. Values
c. Ethical Dilemmas
d. None of the above

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23. Believed to take place when the client unconsciously transfer to the social worker attributes or
characteristics of some important or powerful persons in early life.
a. Transference
b. Counter-transference
c. Ambivalence
d. Reality
24. Before the outbreak of World War II, an examination was given to social workers.
a. Board Examination
b. Civil Service Examination
c. Preliminary Examination
d. Midterm Examination
25. The school’s first director who was to convince the officials of the Philippine Women’s University
to open a school of social work.
a. Asuncion Perez
b. Josefa Jara Martinez
c. Don Miguel Lopes de Legaspi
d. None of the above
26. This means that what the client tells the worker is not discussed with others, except when this is
done within the context of professional relationships
a. Individualization of client
b. Worker self-awareness
c. Client-worker relationship
d. Confidentiality
27. It is the law regulating the practice of social work and the operation of social work agencies.
a. R.A 4437
b. R.A 4377
c. R.A 4373
d. R.A 4737
28. The establishment that provide relief and rehabilitation services to war victims resulted in the
employment of more social workers, with full or little college education.
a. Relief Office
b. War Relief Office
c. War Social Relief
d. Social War Relief
29. The opposite of transference where the worker unconsciously transfer to the client attributions of
significant persons in her past.
a. Transference
b. Counter-transference
c. Ambivalence
d. Reality
30. It is stating of unpleasant truth, opinion, or request as pleasantly possible.
a. “Euphemism”
b. “pakikisama”
c. “panalangin”
d. “walang pakialam” (non-interference)
31. Men are viewed as inherently self-seeking, egotistical, out to extend personal gain at the expense
of others.
a. Man as Anti-Social
b. Natural View
c. Democracy’s View of Man
d. Transcendental View
32. It was founded in 1917 as a family welfare agency is generally considered as the “mother” of the
social work profession in the Philippines
a. UNICEF
b. War relief Office
c. Associated Charities
d. PASWI
33. Based on the proposition that the human mind functions in a dualistic way that conflicts between
its opposing tendencies often results.
a. Reality
b. Ambivalence
c. Transference
d. Counter-transference
34. This value attaches major importance to the personal factor which guarantees intimacy, warmth
and security of kinship and friends in getting things done.
a. Utang na Loob
b. Personalism
c. Patience, Suffering and Endurance

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 d. All of the above
35. Designated as the accrediting and licensing agency for the registration of social work agencies in
the country.
a. PACSA
b. PASWI
c. NASWI
d. DSWD
36. The written expression of some of these principles and rules of conduct for the guidance of the
professional group.
a. Professions’ Code of Ethics
b. Professions’ Values
c. Professions’ Ethical Dilemmas
d. Professions’ Service
37. The observance of a profession’s system of ethics is not free of problems.
a. Ethics
b. Values
c. Ethical Dilemmas
d. None of the above
38. When was the Master of Arts in Social Administration offering a one-year degree program?
a. 1930s
b. 1940s
c. 1950s
d. 1960s
39. Client participates in planning ways of resolving the problem, in thinking of possible alternatives.
a. Individualization of client
b. Worker self-awareness
c. Client-worker relationship
d. Participation of the client in problem-solving
40. Positive feelings prevent a social worker from following primary social work principle of
acceptance.
a. Individualization of client
b. Worker self-awareness
c. Client-worker relationship
d. Participation of the client in problem-solving

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PART II – TRUE OR FALSE (40 points)
Directions: Write T if the statement is TRUE and write the CORRECT ANSWER if the statement is
FALSE. Write your answer on the blank provided before the number.

_______1. Associated Charities which was founded in 1917 as a family welfare agency is generally
considered as the “heart” of the social work profession in the Philippines.
_______2. It uses principles for relationships, if not specific duties of members to each other, to their
clients and to other groups.
_______3. As society becomes more complex and interdependent, increasingly specialized social
organization is required to facilitate the individual’s effort at self-realization
_______4. The recognition of medical social workers as members of the medical team was not to come
until the 1960s, facilitated by doctors whose training abroad had given them sufficient exposure to trained
social workers.
________5. A skilled worker will not prolong counter-transference, even if it is positive, as this can
encourage dependency on the part of the client.
________6. Social Acceptance is being taken by one’s fellows for what one is, or believes he is and being
treated in accordance with his status.
________7. Josefa Jara Martinez, a government pensionada who had obtained a social work diploma
from the New York School of Social Work in 1921
________8. A client develops or regains her self-respect and self-confidence when he realizes that he is
able to solve his own problems.
________9. “Amor Propio” is a term used to refer to the sensitivity to personal affront and functions to
protect the individual against loss of social belongingness.
________10. The following year, the school’s graduate program was expanded to four years and the
degree changed to Master of Social Work. Shortly after the PSSW was opened, the University of the
Philippines and Centro Escolar University also started offering social work courses at the graduate level.
________11. To acknowledge and respect the professional expertise of other discipline extending all
necessary cooperation that will enhance effective services
________12. As anti-social beings, men are viewed as inherently self-seeking, egotistical, out to extend
personal gain at the expense of others.
________13. The health field was among the few that provided jobs to trained social workers with the
passage of a law in the late fifties providing for the employment of social workers in public hospitals.
________14. To act at all times with dishonesty, openness and transparency in all my professional
transactions
________15. Social work believes that man does act rationally because of the social, psychological,
biological and cultural variables which influence his behavior but that man can act rationally and can use
his resources to work for his own welfare and that of society.
________16. Associated Charities was the first to use casework as a method of helping people, the first
to use social workers as full-time, paid employees, and the first to hire a trained social worker.
________17. A very clear illustration of the principle of self-determination is seen in family planning work
________18. It compels the recipient to show his gratitude properly by returning a favor “without interest”
to be sure that he does not remain in the other’s debt.
________19. In 1956, the Civil Service Commission, responding to the request of the Social Welfare
Administration and the Philippine Association of Social Workers, gave a job for social workers.
________20. A purposive worker-client relationship allows for some degree of subjective feelings, which
cannot be entirely removed in any relationship
________21. The association is financed through membership fees, donations, sale of publications, and
fund campaign.
________22. Acceptance also means that we recognize people have strengths and weaknesses and
capacities and limitations
________23. As anti-social beings, men are viewed as inherently self-seeking, egotistical, out to extend
personal gain at the expense of others.
________24. On June 19, 1965, Republic Act No. 4733 was passed, regulating the practice of social
work and the operation of social work agencies.
________25. Endowed with a fundamental philosophy and professional values, the practice of social work
is guided by certain basic principles or rules of action for the practitioner (emanating from such values, as
differentiated from “principles” of action built on tested knowledge or general truths.
________26. As society becomes more complex and interdependent, increasingly specialized social
organization is required to facilitate the individual’s effort at self-realization
________27. Associated Charities was the first to use casework as a method of helping people, the first
to use social workers as full-time, paid employees, and the first to hire a trained social worker
_________28. The new social worker swears to the following professional oath after a representative of
the Professional Regulation Commission
_________29. “Go between” which is the stating of unpleasant truth, opinion, or request as pleasantly
possible

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_________30. Josefa Jara Martinez, a government pensionada who had obtained a social work diploma
from the New York School of Social Work in 1921.
_________31. To acknowledge and respect the professional expertise of other discipline extending all
necessary cooperation that will enhance effective services
_________32. “The ultimate value of social work rests upon a conviction that it is good and desirable for
man to fulfill his potential, to realize himself and to balance this with equal effort to help others do the
same.”
_________33. Non-degree social work courses were then being offered at the University of the
Philippines, and shortly before the outbreak of World War II, a civil service examination was given to
social workers.
_________34. Ethics is the science that treats of value and right conduct
_________35. Social services refer to the desirability of providing social resources for the satisfaction of
human needs for the goal of human welfare.
_________36. It is a useful resource for the enrichment or improvement of the professional curriculum.
_________37. Each person requires for the harmonious development of his powers socially provided and
socially safeguarded opportunities for satisfying his basic needs in the physical, psychological, economic,
cultural, aesthetic and spiritual realms.
_________38. The transcendental view, on the other hand, holds that science can never fully explain
man, partly due to our ignorance, and partly because man has a potential to transcend the natural order
of things, to choose, to create and to be rational.
_________39. In free men and women living in a free society where poverty, in all its forms, is neither a
fate nor a punishment but is a condition that can and must be changed.
_________40. Positive feelings prevent a social worker from following primary social work principle of
acceptance.

PART III - ESSAY:

Directions: Explain in your own understanding.

1. Associated Charities (5pts.)

2. Code of Ethics (15pts)

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