SOCIAL WORK ASWB MASTERS PRACTICE TESTS part 2 Questions and answers. 2022 update. Graded A+

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A social worker notices what appears to be burns on a child's arm and asks the child about these markings. The child responds that "grandma burned me, but mommy isn't going to let me go over there any... more so it's OK." The social worker should - ✔✔Report the conversation immediately to child protective services. Rationale: Social workers are mandated reporters and must not delay in reporting the abuse to the proper authorities. A client has been in therapy for about 4 months and has made substantial progress toward achieving his goals. The social worker and client believe that continued treatment would be beneficial. However, the client recently lost his job and has been informed that his insurance coverage, which has been paying for the services, will end immediately. The client states that he cannot afford to pay the rate paid by the insurance company. In order to facilitate continued progress, the social worker should: - ✔✔Discuss a feasible amount to be paid by the client while he is uninsured. Which of the following is NOT a key diagnostic criterion of Paraphilic Disorders according to the DSM-5? - ✔✔Legal involvement due to sexual interest or behaviors. What are some of the key diagnostic criterion of Paraphilic Disorders according to the DSM-5? - ✔✔--Atypical sexual interests --Personal distress about sexual interests not strictly due to societal disapproval --Sexual desire or behavior that involves another person's psychological harm or from persons who are unwilling or unable to consent. Which of the following is a limitation when using existing case records as the data source for the evaluation of client progress? - ✔✔The scope of the evaluation is restricted to that which is explicitly stated in the file. A client needs to access services from another organization. In order to BEST assist this client, a social worker should: - ✔✔Work with the client to evaluate options and select an agency that the client thinks will best meet his or her needs. During an intake interview, a client uses derogatory language to refer to individuals of a particular ethnic group. This language causes the social worker to become angry. In order to appropriately deal with the anger, the social worker should - ✔✔Recognize the anger and discuss it later with the supervisor. Rationale: A client must feel they are understood and valued as a person, though their performance may be unsatisfactory. If a client feels judged they will not speak freely during a social work interview. A social worker must be interested, genuinely concerned and encouraging, and at the same time, objective, but neither condemning nor praising. In this case, the social worker should use the supervisor to process the feelings that arise as a result of the client's actions. A client who has Schizophrenia has not been taking his medication. He is in crisis, but does not pose a danger to himself or others. The client was recently discharged from an inpatient hospitalization after an involuntary commitment. In the social worker's opinion, the client would benefit from re-hospitalization, but the client does not want to be readmitted. The social worker should - ✔✔Identify community resources to meet his immediate needs. A client's insurance company threatens to discontinue to pay for services immediately if it does not receive the current treatment goals of the client. The social worker send these goals without written consent from the client. This action by the social worker is - ✔✔Unethical because such a release requires written consent. Rationale: Social workers should not disclose confidential information to their-party payers unless clients have authorized such disclosure. Speaking to the client at the onset of treatment about insurance requirements does not constitute informed consent for the release of information requested. A social worker is running a group with adolescents. One of the group members calls the social worker because she is very upset that something that she said in group was disclosed to others in her school by another group member. The BEST method for the social worker to address this situation is to: - ✔✔Suggest that the upset group member bring up her concern at the next group session. Rationale: There is no legal mandate for group members to safeguard information disclosed in groups. However, this disclosure may be a violation of the rules that the group established for itself. It is appropriate for the group to discuss and decide what actions, if any, should take place. Such disclosures may threaten the psychotherapeutic goals Which of the following is NOT one of Freud's stages of psychosexual development? - ✔✔Castration Freud's Psychosexual Stages - ✔✔oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, genital stage Which is NOT true when an agency uses the services of a consultant. - ✔✔The agency is mandated to follow a consultant's recommendations. Rationale: Although a consultant does not have any formal authority as an "expert." Releases of information are needed when disclosing data to a consultant. A consultant should be competent, demonstrating knowledge and expertise. However, the agency is not required to follow the advice given by a consultant. The final decision rests with the agency administration and board of directors. A client expresses an attraction to the social worker during a therapy session. In order to address this issue ethically, the social worker should - ✔✔Explore it as a therapeutic issue, seek supervision, and document the disclosure in the client file. Rationale: A social worker must address this expression within an appropriate therapeutic context. Referring or terminating is not appropriate and ignoring it does not assist the client in understanding why these feelings are occurring. The social worker should never act on these feelings and engage in a relationship with a client. An agency that employs social workers has detailed job descriptions that delineate the best way to perform functions, closely supervises its employees, and ties employee pay increases to behaviors that promote the goals of the organization. This agency is MOST likely using which of the following approaches to manage its workers? - ✔✔Scientific management Rationale: A scientific management approach finds the one "best way" to perform each task; carefully matches each worker to each task; closely supervises workers, using reward and punishment as motivators; and manages and controls behavior. A system approach - ✔✔considers the organization as a system composed of interrelated subsystems. A contingency approach - ✔✔recognizes that organizational systems are interrelated with the environment and different organizational relationships are needed depending upon the larger environmental context. A human relations approach - ✔✔emphasizes creativity, cohesive work groups,participatory leadership, and open communication. Projective tests are based on which theoretical approach - ✔✔Psychoanalytic. Rationale: In a projective test, a client offers responses to ambiguous scenes, words, or images. This type of test emerged from a psychoanalytic approach, which suggested that clients have unconscious thoughts or urges. Projective tests are intended to uncover unconscious desires that are hidden from conscious awareness. Most models of spiritual development move from an individual being egocentric to eventually becoming an - ✔✔Integrated being Rationale: Individuals usually begin unwilling to accept a will greater than their own and are extremely egotistical. They then move to conforming and having blind faith. In this second stage, things are seen dichotomously--as right or wrong. Individuals then come to develop a deeper understanding of good and evil and do not accept blind faith, but integrate their beliefs into their larger world view and behaviors. All of the following are true about empathetic communication - ✔✔--Empathetic communication bridges the gap between the social worker and client by establishing rapport. --Empathetic communication is nonjudgmental, accepting, and genuine. --Empathetic communication decreases defensiveness and encourages a more rational discussion of problems. All of the following are true about empathetic communication EXCEPT - ✔✔Empathetic communication is verbal communication in which the client is engaged in oral problem solving and processing of new information. Rationale: Empathetic communication also includes the client's nonverbal messages. A social worker can observe body language and make explicit a client's feelings, as well as communicate, through eye contact and posture, interest, and understanding in what the client is saying. A new client comes to the first appointment and is extremely anxious. She paces while in the waiting room and states that she "just needs to get some sleep." During the intake interview, the client reports that she is a recreational drug user. Based on her behavior, the client is MOST likely using - ✔✔Cocaine Rationale: Heroin use is indicated by contracted pupils, sleeping at unusual times, sweating, vomiting, twitching, and loss of appetite. Marijuana use is indicated by glassy, red eyes; inappropriate laughter; and loss of interest and motivation. Oxycontin is an opioid pain medication used to treat moderate to severe pain and its use is indicated by sleepiness, inattention, and loss of appetite. A woman who is in a relationship that is physically abusive would like to being couples counseling because she believes that helping her boyfriend to see her point of view may assist in decreasing the violence. In order to appropriately address this request, the social worker should - ✔✔Explain to the woman that couples counseling should not take place at this time, given the physical abuse. Rationale: Traditional marital and couples therapy are not appropriate in battering relationships as it puts the victims in greater danger of further abuse. A client has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Using a systems approach, the social worker should - ✔✔Work with the client on addressing the impacts of this prognosis on their psychological and spiritual well-being. According to Freud, an adolescent in puberty is in which stage of psychosexual development? - ✔✔Genital Which of the following is the BEST definition of empowerment? - ✔✔Building skills and obtaining resources that will assist a client in controlling and making changes, if desired, in their own well-being. A client is starting a new business and really needs a partner to assist with start-up activities. Without this help, the client will experience extreme financial hardship because she will not be able to bring in needed income to her household. The social worker has a lot of business expertise that would be valuable to the client. In this situation, the social worker should - ✔✔Continue to serve the client. providing only emotional support during the crisis. Which of the following is NOT considered as part of culturally informed intervention planning? - ✔✔The need for informed consent procedures. [Show More]

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