pg. 1 ASWB Masters Practice Test Newest 2024 All Possible Exam Questions and Correct Verified Answers/ Graded A+
What task is the FIRST step in setting up a program evaluation?
- Selecting the criteria for measuring success
- Determining the goals and objectives
- Assessing the available resources
- Designing the methodology - Correct Answer - B. Determining the goals and
objectives
What practice has the MOST positive effect on service delivery?
- Using employment practices that support diverse staff skills
- Making the needs of clients the focus for all agency policy
- Providing paraprofessionals to ensure client attendance at all activities
- Providing professional development time for in-service training - Correct Answer - B.
Making the needs of clients the focus for all agency policy
A former client contacts a social worker to request access to treatment records. The client and the client's spouse have been seen individually and jointly. What is the social worker's MOST appropriate response?
- Allow the client access to information pertaining only to the client
- Advise the client that agency policy prohibits client access to records
- Allow total access to records pertaining to the client and the spouse 1 / 4
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- Request a ruling from the agency's executive director and attorney - Correct Answer -
- Allow the client access to information pertaining only to the client
What instrument is MOST likely to be used by social workers in the initial assessment of families?
- Ecomap
- Life history grid
- Family sculpting
- Global Assessment of Functioning Scale - Correct Answer - A. Ecomap
A hospital social worker works with a terminally ill patient who is refusing to use a breathing machine to prolong life. What action is the patient choosing?
- Active euthanasia
- Natural death
- Physician-assisted death
- Palliative care - Correct Answer - B. Natural death
The personality disorder in which the individual is hypersensitive to potential rejection, has low self-esteem, is socially withdrawn, and is generally unwilling to enter social
relationships is:
- Avoidant
- Schizoid
- Antisocial
- Looseness of associations - Correct Answer - A. Avoidant
What term describes the belief that one's thoughts alone can result in the accomplishment of certain wishes? 2 / 4
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- Depersonalization
- Magical thinking
- Thought broadcasting
- Looseness of associations - Correct Answer - B. Magical thinking
A social worker is a member of the disaster response team in a community where there was a recent tornado. An elementary school was destroyed and three children were killed. A month later, parents and school officials ask the social worker to evaluate a child whose behavior has become unmanageable in class. The child is having difficulty concentrating and has not completed any assignments in several weeks. What should the social worker do FIRST?
- Refer the child for an evaluation for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
- Encourage the parents to spend more time with the child each day
- Complete an individual assessment with the child
- Provide crisis intervention for the child - Correct Answer - C. Complete an individual
assessment with the child
A social worker meets with a client who is chronically mentally ill. The client often refuses to take psychotropic medications but does not yet exhibit symptoms of active psychosis. What approach is MOST likely to help the client achieve long-term optimal functioning?
- Developing a behavioral program to enhance medication compliance
- Referring the client to a day treatment center
- Referring the client for long-term hospitalization
- Arranging for medication to be administered by a visiting nurse - Correct Answer - A.
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Developing a behavioral program to enhance medication compliance
pg. 4 A social worker is subpoenaed to testify at a court hearing. However, the client asks the social worker not to disclose information from their sessions. The social worker might
support adhering to the clients request on the basis of:
- Privileged communication
- Self-determination
- Liability reduction
- Best practices - Correct Answer - A. Privileged communication
A social worker is asked to evaluate a ten-year-old child who was reported to be talking with peers about explicit sexual activity and singing a song about incest. After ruling out direct sexual abuse to the child, what should the social worker do NEXT?
- Assess other exposures to sexually explicit material
- Assess the child’s level of impulse control
- Consider a diagnosis of conduct disorder
- Educate the child about appropriate talk with peers - Correct Answer - A. Assess
other exposures to sexually explicit material
A medical social worker discusses discharge planning with a patient’s spouse. The patient’s spouse is adamant that no follow-up medical care is needed. The patient has the capacity to make medical decisions. What should the social worker do NEXT?
- Respect the spouses wish
- Inform the patients physician of the spouse’s request
- Explain the patients’ rights to the spouse
- Meet with the hospital board of ethics - Correct Answer - C. Explain the patients’
rights to the spouse
A social worker is aware of a client having difficulty paying for prescription medications.What should the social worker do?
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