Esmeralda Is a Worker in a Social Services Organization and Comes

question 18

Multiple Choice

Esmeralda is a worker in a social services organization and comes to a staff meeting with what she feels is a brilliant new intervention approach for the agency to adopt. The staff did not evaluate this new approach fairly or impartially. Rather, they nodded pleasantly in feigned agreement and proceeded to recycle the new approach into the same old routine. Esmeralda just had a glimpse of the______perspective of the organization.

• A) Static
• B) Credo
• C) Contingency
• D) Status Quo
• E) Cultural

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Definitions:

Stability And Change

The concept in psychology and other fields that examines the dynamic balance between maintaining consistency and undergoing transformation.

Terminal Illness

A disease or condition that is expected to lead to death because it is incurable.

Social Attitudes

The prevailing or common feelings, beliefs, and behavioral tendencies directed towards socially significant objects, groups, or symbols.

Temperament

An individual's innate disposition or behavioral style and characteristic emotional responses.