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ASWB Advanced Generalist Exam Questions

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41.

What is emancipation? 

  • The process by which minors become independent for some legal purposes 

  • The process by which children are removed from a home 

  • The process by which persons with severe and persistent mental illness can elect not to be treated

Correct answer: The process by which minors become independent for some legal purpose

Emancipation refers to the process by which minors become independent for some legal purpose. This process is highly variable by local jurisdiction in most ways. 

Emancipation does not refer to the process by which children are removed from a home or the process by which persons with severe and persistent mental illness can elect not to be treated.

42.

If a social worker is on the board of directors for a counseling agency, it would be unethical for them to do which of the following?

  • Be a paid staff consultant for the counseling agency

  • Serve on another committee within the agency

  • Review the agency’s financial reports

  • Determine the performance criteria of agency employees

Correct answer: Be a paid staff consultant for the counseling agency

It would be a conflict of interest for a social worker who sits on an agency’s board to also be a paid consultant, as it creates an ethical dilemma.

The other options are all actions that are generally taken by a board member and are not unethical.

43.

According to Bowenian family therapy, what term refers to the tendency for family members to feel the same way ?

  • Emotional fusion

  • Emotional synthesis

  • Co-emotion

  • Emotional consensus

Correct answer: Emotional fusion

In Bowenian family therapy, "emotional fusion" refers to the tendency of family members to share emotional responses.

The other options are incorrect. Emotional synthesis, co-emotion, and emotional consensus are not terms used in Bowenian family therapy.

44.

A client forgot to pick up her child from the babysitter’s house. She explains that she was extremely busy at work and then needed to stop for groceries; by the time she was done, she completely forgot to pick up her child.

What type of defense mechanism is this client MOST likely using?

  • Rationalization

  • Sublimation

  • Overcompensation

  • Displacement

Correct answer: Rationalization

When someone rationalizes something, they try to explain it away. People often use rationalization to push away their insecurities or remorse after doing something they regret. To make themselves feel better, they shift the blame.

Displacement is a defense mechanism in which a client transfers actions from a desired target to a substitute target when the first target is not permitted or not available.

Overcompensation is a defense mechanism characterized by an individual’s extreme efforts to counterbalance a deficiency.

Sublimation is a defense mechanism that allows an individual to act out unacceptable impulses or desires by converting these behaviors into a more acceptable form. Sublimation develops over a long period.

45.

Which of the following is the MOST accurate statement about aging with respect to social work?

  • It is an irreversible, natural process involving changes in mood, attitude, and social activity

  • It is an organic, wholly idiosyncratic process involving the maintenance of mood, attitude, and social activity

  • It is a product of societal perception and cultural expectations that is not well-defined

Correct answer: It is an irreversible, natural process involving changes in mood, attitude, and social activity

The process of aging with respect to its meaning in social work is best understood as an irreversible, natural process involving changes in mood, attitude, and social activity. Although it is highly complex and individualized to a degree, the common experience of aging involves well-understood processes that are broadly common to all humans. 

The process is not reversible or wholly idiosyncratic. It involves factors such as societal perception and cultural expectations, but it is chiefly to be understood as a real phenomenon in humans that produces changes that must be addressed.

46.

Which of the following refers to the repetition of another's words?

  • Echolalia

  • Echopraxia

  • Echokynesia

  • Echomania

Correct answer: Echolalia

Echolalia refers to the repetition of another's words or phrases.

The other answers are incorrect. Echopraxia is the repetition of another's movements. "Echokynesia" and "echomania" are fabricated terms.

47.

Clients use various defense mechanisms in order to protect themselves during treatment sessions.

Which of the following BEST describes the defense mechanism of intellectualization?

  • Ignoring feelings and objectively analyzing problems

  • Ignoring unacceptable feelings

  • Overestimating another person’s abilities

  • Taking extreme measures to counterbalance a deficiency

Correct answer: Ignoring feelings and objectively analyzing problems

In intellectualization, people think away an emotion or reaction that they do not want to feel. Although they are not denying that an emotional event occurred, they are not thinking about its emotional consequences.

Denial can be considered a "generic" defense mechanism because it underlies many of the other defense mechanisms. When someone uses denial, they simply refuse to accept the truth or reality of a fact or experience. An example of denial is saying, "I'm just a social drinker."

Idealization is a defense mechanism in which a client overestimates another person’s abilities.

Overcompensation is a defense mechanism in which a client takes extreme measures to counterbalance a perceived deficiency.

48.

Which of the following describes achieved results in program management?

  • Outcomes

  • Goals

  • Milestones

  • Objectives

Correct answer: Outcomes 

Outcomes are the achieved results of a program in terms of program management.

The other options are incorrect. Goals are broad, general statements about the future. Objectives are brief, clear statements that specify goals. "Milestones" is not a program management term.

49.

Clients use various defense mechanisms in order to protect themselves during treatment sessions.

Which of the following BEST describes the defense mechanism of substitution?

  • Replacing an unattainable goal with an attainable goal

  • Ignoring unacceptable feelings

  • Taking extreme measures to counterbalance a deficiency

  • Justifying an unacceptable action in order to make it acceptable

Correct answer: Replacing an unattainable goal with an attainable goal

Substitution is a defense mechanism in which a client replaces an unattainable goal with an attainable goal.

Denial can be considered a "generic" defense mechanism because it underlies many of the other defense mechanisms. When someone uses denial, they simply refuse to accept the truth or reality of a fact or experience. An example of denial is saying, "I'm just a social drinker."

Overcompensation is a defense mechanism in which a client takes extreme measures to counterbalance a deficiency.

When someone rationalizes something, they try to explain it away. People often use rationalization to push away their insecurities or remorse after doing something they regret. To make themselves feel better, they shift the blame.

50.

A 12-year-old client has been admitted to the hospital six times in the last year for a chronic illness and has been referred to a social worker. A social worker has been assigned to the client, and during the initial assessment, she is informed that the client's parents are verbally abusive to each other and are experiencing financial troubles.

What is the FIRST thing the social worker should do?

  • Assess the client's feelings about living with a chronic illness

  • Suggest marriage counseling for the client's parents

  • Refer the parents to a debt consolidator

  • Discuss how the client feels about her home life

Correct answer: Assess the client's feelings about living with a chronic illness

Since the client is being treated by a social worker for their chronic illness, the social worker should assess the client's feelings about living with a chronic illness.

The client's parents are not the social worker's concern at this time; in the future, the social worker may decide to address family issues.

51.

Which of the following refers to changes that truly alter the structure of a family system?

  • Second-order changes

  • First-order changes

  • Root changes

  • Core changes

Correct answer: Second-order changes

In structural family therapy, second-order changes truly alter the structure of the family system.

The other options are incorrect. First-order changes are only superficial. The terms "root changes" and "core changes" are fabricated terms.

52.

When an individual is part of a structured group, what impact does it have on their loneliness?

  • Reduces social loneliness

  • Offers no buffering

  • Reduces emotional loneliness

  • Reduces social and emotional loneliness

Correct answer: Reduces social loneliness

A structured group reduces a person's social loneliness.

A collective group has no buffering effect on an individual’s loneliness. An intimate group reduces emotional loneliness. An intimate structured group reduces emotional and social loneliness.

53.

A social worker has an emotional reaction to a client and becomes defensive toward them.

Which of the following terms BEST describes the social worker’s actions?

  • Countertransference

  • Transference

  • Acceptance

  • Empathy

Correct answer: Countertransference

Countertransference is when a social worker has an emotional reaction to a client and applies their feelings (such as defensiveness, wishfulness, or fearfulness) toward the client.

Transference is when a client has an emotional reaction to a social worker and applies their feelings toward the social worker. Empathy is when a person is able to relate to, understand, experience, and respond to another’s emotional state and ideas. Acceptance is when an individual can look at another’s positive worth without condoning their actions.

54.

An independent social worker receives a request from a past client to view his records, and these records contain information that was not disclosed to him previously.

Knowing that the undisclosed information could have an effect on the client, what should the social worker do? 

  • Assess the possible harm to the client before releasing the records

  • Send the client’s records with an explanation letter

  • Deny the request

  • Schedule a meeting with the client’s family

Correct answer: Assess the possible harm to the client before releasing the records

A client has the right to view their records unless there are circumstances that warrant limitation, such as any harm that would result from information in those records. In this case, the social worker should assess any possible harm that may result from the disclosure before releasing the records. 

The social worker would be overstepping their role if an explanation letter was sent with the records, and it would not be appropriate to meet with the client’s family.

55.

You are the only licensed social worker in a mental health clinic with two other professionals. You have been offered another job, and today is your last day.

Which of the following options represents appropriate conduct with your clients' files?

  • Leave the files in the locked filing cabinet at the clinic and give the key to your supervisor before you leave

  • Provide your clients with their files during their last session

  • Take the files with you to continue treating your clients

  • Destroy the files prior to leaving the clinic

Correct answer: Leave the files in the locked filing cabinet at the clinic and give the key to your supervisor before you leave

Clients’ records should always be locked in a filing cabinet, regardless of where they are kept.

Do not give the clients their files during the last session or destroy them. Since the clients' records belong to the clinic, not the social worker, the files need to remain at the clinic.

56.

Which role is a social worker assuming when teaching a client necessary adaptive skills?

  • Educator role

  • Facilitator role

  • Enabler role

  • Mobilizer role

Correct answer: Educator role

In an educator role, a social worker assumes the responsibility of teaching clients necessary adaptive skills.

In a facilitator role, a social worker seeks to expedite a change effort by establishing communication among groups of people, channeling their activities and resources, and providing them with expertise. In an enabler role, a social worker seeks to help a client become capable of coping with situational or transitional stress. In a mobilizer role, a social worker attempts to help people and organizations combine their resources to achieve their goals of mutual importance.

57.

Which of the following describes the concept in Bowenian family therapy of reducing emotional pressure on an individual?

  • Differentiation

  • Dramatic relief

  • Self-liberation

  • Counterconditioning

Correct answer: Differentiation

The concept of differentiation in Bowenian family therapy describes the desired state of a person who feels connected to the larger family system but still feels able to act independently, feeling less emotional pressure from the greater system.

The other answers are incorrect. Dramatic relief, self-liberation, and counterconditioning are not terms used in Bowenian family therapy.

58.

Which of the following BEST represents primary prevention?

  • Social insurance programs

  • Early treatment

  • Group therapy

  • Clinical intervention

Correct answer: Social insurance programs

Primary prevention consists of actions taken to keep social problems or diseases from occurring. Social insurance programs, such as public health insurance, are a type of primary prevention.

Early treatment is an example of secondary prevention. Group therapy and clinical intervention are examples of tertiary prevention.

59.

A client is experiencing visual hallucinations, confusion, restlessness, chills, nausea, and dilated pupils. Which substance is MOST likely causing their condition?

  • Cocaine

  • Opioids

  • Alcohol

Correct answer: Cocaine

The symptoms associated with cocaine use include visual hallucinations, confusion, restlessness, chills, nausea, and dilated pupils.

Dilated pupils are not a symptom of alcohol use. Restlessness, chills, and dilated pupils are not generally associated with opioids.

60.

Which of the following BEST represents secondary prevention?

  • Early treatment

  • Recreational parks

  • Rehabilitation clinics

  • Group therapy

Correct answer: Early treatment

Secondary prevention is the effort taken to limit the severity of a problem via early identification, isolation of the problem, and early treatment.

Recreational parks are an example of primary prevention. Rehabilitation clinics and group therapy are examples of tertiary prevention.

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