Fields of Social Work Practice I Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Childline helps children in times of Emergency.

CHILDLINE 1098 is a free 24-hour telephone helpline for children in need of care and protection. It responds to children in emergency situations, such as abuse, abandonment, a child lost or running away, child labour or a medical emergency, and links them to rescue, shelter and long-term services.

It is not meant for normal situations or festivals, and natural calamities are only one kind of emergency, so option D is too narrow.

Answer: C

Gerontological social work deals with the elderly.

Gerontology is the study of ageing and of older people. Gerontological social work helps older adults and their families with health and long-term care, income security, living arrangements, elder abuse, loneliness, end-of-life issues and access to services, and advocates for policies such as pensions and senior citizens' welfare.

Work with children falls under child welfare, with youth under youth work, and with adults under other fields of practice.

Answer: B

Both statements are true, but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.

The Assertion concerns adolescents: correct information and understanding about gender equality, respect and consent help young people form responsible attitudes to sexual behaviour, which is why such content is part of adolescence education programmes.

The Reason states the broad aim of gender equality: to challenge patriarchal practices that oppress women. It is true, but it describes the purpose of gender equality as a social goal, not why information about it leads adolescents to responsible sexual behaviour, so the key treats it as not the explanation.

Answer: C

On the key, the institution of the family is challenged by live-in relationships.

Live-in relationships are an alternative to marriage itself: couples live together without the formal marital bond on which the family as an institution rests. Their growth therefore questions the institution of the family, its norms of marriage, legitimacy and kinship, rather than only affecting particular families.

Alcoholism, chronic illness and divorce cause problems within or for individual families, but they do not offer an alternative to the family as an institution, which is the distinction the key draws.

Answer: B

Children aged 0-18 made up about 39% of India's population in Census 2011.

Census 2011 counted about 472 million children below 18 years out of a total population of about 1.21 billion, which is roughly 39%. Of these, about 164 million were in the 0-6 age group, about 13.6% of the population.

46% overstates the share, and 28% and 18% are closer to the shares of narrower age groups (18% is close to the share of adolescents aged 10-19 alone), not of all children up to 18.

Answer: B

The concept of the conjugal family was propounded by William J. Goode.

In World Revolution and Family Patterns (1963), Goode argued that industrialisation and urbanisation everywhere push family systems towards the conjugal family: a nuclear unit centred on the husband-wife bond, with weaker obligations to extended kin, free choice of spouse and neolocal residence.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American jurist and A.V. Dicey a British constitutional theorist. Irawati Karve wrote on kinship organisation in India but did not propound the conjugal family concept.

Answer: B

The CDPO is responsible for implementation and administration of the ICDS programme.

The Child Development Project Officer heads an Integrated Child Development Services project, usually at the block level. The CDPO plans, implements and supervises ICDS services through the anganwadi centres and supervisors: supplementary nutrition, immunisation, health check-ups, referral services, pre-school education, and nutrition and health education for children under six and for pregnant and nursing mothers.

Swachh Bharat in schools, general social welfare programmes and child health programmes are run by other departments and officers.

Answer: B

ICPS stands for Integrated Child Protection Scheme.

The Integrated Child Protection Scheme was launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2009-10 to create a safe and secure environment for children in difficult circumstances. It set up child protection structures such as State and District Child Protection Units and Childline, and supports institutional and family-based care under the Juvenile Justice Act. It has since been merged into Mission Vatsalya.

It is a scheme, not 'services', and the other two expansions are unrelated.

Answer: D

The key role is to work with the violated woman to ensure her safety and stop violence.

Social workers placed in police stations, as in the special cells for women and children, work with the survivor on her own terms: safety planning, counselling, access to shelter, legal aid and protection orders, and steps to end the violence, while respecting her choices.

Filing a criminal case or helping her separate may follow if she chooses, but neither is the worker's goal in itself. 'Teaching the husband a lesson' is punitive and outside the professional role.

Answer: D

A disability certificate showing 40% disability is needed.

Under Indian disability law, a person with at least 40 per cent of a specified disability is a 'person with benchmark disability' under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, as under the 1995 Act before it. That threshold makes a person eligible for reservations and most government benefits.

30 per cent is below the threshold, while 70 and 80 per cent are higher levels used only for certain extra benefits, such as some allowances for severe disability. They are not the general requirement.