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ASWB MSW Exam Questions

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181.

Which of the following did Alfred Adler believe was the main motivation for human behavior?

  • Striving for perfection

  • Sexual urges

  • Aggressive urges

  • Homeostasis

Correct answer: Striving for perfection

Alfred Adler founded the school of Individual Psychology, which suggests that the main motivation for human behavior is not sexual or aggressive urges as his mentor Freud had thought, but the desire for perfection.

Alfred Adler did not believe homeostasis was the main motivation for human behavior.

182.

Which of the following terms refers to involuntary behavior?

  • Respondent

  • Operant

  • Modeling

  • Flooding

Correct answer: Respondent

According to the paradigm of classical or respondent conditioning advanced by Ivan Pavlov, "respondent" refers to involuntary response to a stimulus.

The other terms listed do not correspond to an assessment of involuntary behavior.

183.

Why is it important for social workers to examine their own cultural background when working with diverse clients?

  • So they can be aware of personal values, assumptions, and biases

  • So they can share their beliefs with clients

  • So they can separate their own background from their practice

Correct answer: So they can be aware of personal values, assumptions, and biases

NASW states that "Cultural competence requires social workers to examine their own cultural backgrounds and identities to increase awareness of personal assumptions, values, and biases. The workers’ self-awareness of their own cultural identities is as fundamental to practice as the informed assumptions about clients’ cultural backgrounds and experiences in the United States."

The remaining answer options are incorrect. Sharing their own beliefs with clients may jeopardize the relationship the social worker has with the client. Social workers must integrate, not separate, their own backgrounds with their practice in order to serve most efficiently.

184.

There are six main value-based concepts that make up the foundation of social work practice. Which of the following is one of those concepts?

  • The individual is the primary concern of this society

  • People have common needs and are similar to one another

  • Individuals are responsible for themselves rather than for society as a whole

Correct answer: The individual is the primary concern of this society

Acknowledging that the individual is the primary concern of society is an important concept that makes up the foundation of social work practice.

The remaining answers are actually in opposition to social work values. People all have common needs, but each person is essentially unique and different from others. Individuals have a social responsibility for one another, not just themselves.

185.

In regard to Section 1.11 Sexual Harassment of the NASW Code of Ethics, which of the following statements is TRUE?

  • The NASW Code of Ethics states that sexual harassment includes sexual solicitation, sexual advances, and sexual favors

  • The NASW Code of Ethics states that social workers should not cradle or caress clients

  • The NASW Code of Ethics states that social workers should not engage in consensual or forced sexual activities with clients

Correct answer: The NASW Code of Ethics states that sexual harassment includes sexual solicitation, sexual advances, and sexual favors. 

Section 1.11 of the NASW Code of Ethics states: "Social workers should not sexually harass clients. Sexual harassment includes advances, sexual solicitation, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature."

The NASW Code of Ethics states that social workers should not cradle or caress clients under section 1.10 Physical Contact, not 1.11 Sexual Harassment. The NASW Code of Ethics states that social workers should not engage in consensual or forced sexual activities with clients under section 1.09 Sexual Relationships, not 1.11 Sexual Harassment.

186.

Ellen, a social worker, is attempting to help her client Bonnie with her anxiety disorder. Ellen attempts to help Bonnie understand how thoughts and emotions interact with behavior. Ellen also encourages Bonnie to do journaling that helps Bonnie keep track of how her thoughts and emotions change throughout her cycles of anxiety.

Which of the following techniques is Ellen using?

  • Cognitive restructuring

  • Psychoeducation

  • Task-centered strategy

  • Partializing

Correct answer: Cognitive restructuring

Cognitive restructuring is the effort to help a client understand how their thoughts and emotions interact. In doing so, it is hoped that the client begins to identify less with temporary states of thought and understand them as things that can come and go and change rapidly. Understanding this process can involve journaling, education, and the training of awareness/mindfulness techniques.

Psychoeducation is aimed more at an intellectual grasp of a client's issues in hopes that knowledge provides a sense of power. A task-centered strategy is a very brief intervention that seeks to solve immediate problems with client-based strategies. Partializing is a more basic technique that attempts to make larger problems appear smaller by breaking them down into smaller pieces.

187.

Which of the following is LEAST likely to be a symptom of secondary trauma?

  • Delusions

  • Insomnia

  • Chronic irritability

  • Avoidance

Correct answer: Delusions

Secondary trauma can take place when a helping professional is empathically involved with a client. Its symptoms are like those of trauma and include insomnia, chronic irritability, and avoidance.

Delusions are unlikely to be a symptom of secondary trauma.

188.

Which of the following social work roles has to do with linking clients to needed resources and services?

  • Broker

  • Advocate

  • Change agent

  • Mediator

Correct answer: Broker

In the role of broker, a social worker attempts to link clients to services through finding and establishing the provision of resources.

As an advocate, a social worker speaks up for clients who may not otherwise have a voice or power in a situation. As a change agent, a social worker attempts change at an organizational level to improve service delivery. As a mediator, a social worker attempts to negotiate differences between parties in dispute.

189.

George is seeing his minor client, Susan, and her family. Susan is below the age of consent in her jurisdiction and has been brought by her parents to George for treatment of an eating disorder.

Which of the following is TRUE about this situation?

  • George should seek Susan's assent for treatment

  • George should begin treating the child, as consent has been gained

  • George should refuse to treat until Susan's consent is gained

  • George should demand the family attend all sessions

Correct answer: George should seek Susan's assent for treatment

Though legally a social worker may treat clients below the age of consent, and in those situations the parents or guardians can give legal approval for treatment, the social worker is still under an ethical obligation to seek Susan's assent (willingness) for treatment. Though language and statutes vary, the principle is that one should try to treat clients who wish to be treated. This does not mean it is absolutely necessary, and it does not mean that Susan can't be treated without it.

George should seek Susan's willingness to be treated rather than immediately beginning to treat. It may or may not be indicated to have family present during sessions.

190.

Which of the following types of social work practice evaluation is about looking at the total case and examining areas of possible improvement?

  • Summative evaluation

  • Formative evaluation

  • Practical evaluation

  • Self-evaluation

Correct answer: Summative evaluation

Of the two types of social work practice evaluation, a summative evaluation seeks to gather up the insights of a total service delivery, record lessons learned, and apply them to future cases.

Formative evaluations deal with improving services as they are ongoing.

The other terms listed are fabricated and are not types of social work evaluation.

191.

If a social worker is acting as change agent, which of the following is the MOST likely sphere of action?

  • A mental hospital

  • A client with diabetes

  • A family in crisis

  • A suicidal person

Correct answer: A mental hospital

Social workers acting as change agents work actively to improve the functioning of service provision on the macro level. Improving the functioning of a mental hospital would be an example.

Clients with diabetes, families in crisis, and suicidal persons would be highly focused client system environments more appropriate to individual counseling.

192.

As a social worker providing mental health services, why should you make sure to conduct a medical history?

  • To ensure that psychological disturbances are not a result of organic or medical problems

  • For insurance purposes

  • To show the client that you are equally concerned about their physical health

  • To determine whether the client is physically able to undergo psychotherapy

Correct answer: To ensure that psychological disturbances are not a result of organic or medical problems

There are many medical disorders that can significantly affect an individual's mental health. Social workers should always make sure to conduct a thorough medical history to rule out any possible organic or medical problems contributing to a client's psychological difficulties.

Most insurance companies do not require social workers to conduct medical histories; it is simply best practice. Social workers should be concerned with clients' physical, emotional, and psychological health, but the purpose of administering a medical history is not to show or prove to the client that you are concerned about their physical health. Psychotherapy is not necessarily a physically demanding activity, and even clients with health problems should be able to participate in psychotherapy without their physical health being compromised.

193.

What is strongly associated with violence against women?

  • Power and control

  • Conflict

  • Mental illness

  • Revenge

Correct answer: Power and control

Domestic violence against women is about power and control. The abuser likes to feel that they have the power to make the decisions in the victim's life. They want to make the victim do anything they want, feel that anything they do to make the abuser angry is their fault, etc.

The remaining answer options are incorrect because domestic violence is not typically about revenge, mental illness, or conflict in particular.

194.

In a mental health examination, which of the following would be measured by an orientation section?

  • Association with time and place

  • Sexual preferences

  • Status in treatment

  • Physical health status

Correct answer: Association with time and place

In a mental health examination, the orientation section refers to a person's association with time and place. It should also indicate that person's orientation to themselves and their environment in general.

An orientation section does not deal with sexual preferences, status in treatment, or physical health status.

195.

Which of the following types of family therapy concentrates on the generational transmission of family issues?

  • Bowenian family therapy

  • Strategic family therapy

  • Structural family therapy

  • Role-based family therapy

Correct answer: Bowenian family therapy

Bowenian family therapy attempts to improve differentiation and the generational transmission of issues.

Strategic family therapy seeks to reduce symptoms through altering styles of feedback that it is thought to maintain the problem. Structural family therapy examines roles and family organization. 

Role-based family therapy does not exist and is a fabricated term.

196.

Which of the following conditions would be MOST effective if treated with role modeling?

  • Social anxiety

  • Depression

  • Personality disorder

  • Tic disorder

Correct answer: Social anxiety

Role modeling involves partner techniques involving the social worker helping the client through demonstrating a skill in the live environment. It is used in situations where assertiveness or social anxiety or lack of skill might be factors.

Depression, personality disorder, and tic disorder would be less likely to be treated with role modeling.

197.

According to which theorist is learning viewed as a change in behavior related to stimuli in the external environment?

  • Skinner

  • Piaget

  • Maslow

  • Bandura

Correct answer: Skinner

B. F. Skinner belonged to the school of Behaviorism, which teaches that learning is a product of an organism's reaction to external stimuli in the environment.

None of the other theorists listed are in line with this theoretical idea.

198.

One of a social worker's roles is to be a "broker." What does this mean?

  • A "broker" is a social worker who helps direct a person or family to needed resources and follows up with the client(s) to make sure resources were obtained

  • A "broker" is a social worker who arranges meetings between a client and someone with whom they have a conflict to help resolve monetary issues

  • A "broker" is a social worker who charges clients a fee for holding money in trust until the client wants to withdraw the money

Correct answer: The "broker" is a social worker who helps direct a person or family to needed resources and follows up with the client(s) to make sure resources were obtained

A social worker in the broker role helps clients identify, locate, and connect with resources they need in a timely manner. This requires the social worker to be familiar with resources and locations of services.

The remaining answers are incorrect. Social workers in the broker role do not help resolve financial conflicts or charge fees for holding money.

199.

One value in the NASW Code of Ethics is integrity. What ethical principle matches this value?

  • Social workers behave in a trustworthy manner

  • Social workers help people in need and address social problems

  • Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person

  • Social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise

Correct answer: Social workers behave in a trustworthy manner 

Social workers should be aware of the profession’s mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical standards and practice in a manner consistent with them.

Social workers helping people in need and addressing social problems is the ethical principle that matches service. Social workers respecting the inherent dignity and worth of the person is the ethical principle that matches dignity and worth of the person. Social workers practicing within their areas of competence and developing and enhancing their professional expertise is the ethical principle that matches competence.

200.

The model of the stages of change describes how clients change throughout the intervention process. During what stage do clients recognize that a problem exists but aren't necessarily ready to do something to change?

  • Contemplation

  • Maintenance

  • Pre-contemplation

  • Preparation

Correct answer: Contemplation

Contemplation is the stage in which individuals finally admit that there is some sort of problem (such as depression or alcoholism). At this point, they think about whether or not they want to try to change, since it will be difficult.

Pre-contemplation is the first stage of change in which the client is becoming more conscious of the problem. Preparation is the stage following contemplation in which the client starts to believe that the problem can be changed. Maintenance is the last stage, in which the client continues to succeed by receiving continuous positive reinforcement.

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