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ASWB EXAM PREP- PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2024Denise is a school social worker. One of her clients, Dawn, is a teenager who is doing
extremely well academically, with perfect grades and participation in a wide variety of
activities. However, Dawn reports to Denise that she does not feel good about herself,
often thinks about death, and has trouble sleeping.
Which of the classic parenting styles has MOST likely been applied to Dawn?
Authoritarian
Uninvolved
Permissive
Authoritative - Answers -Authoritarian
Which of the following are types of research conducted by social workers as part of their
ethical responsibilities to the profession?
Needs assessment and program evaluation.
Clinical research and ethics evaluation
Client observation and participant observation
Group and family therapy - Answers -Needs assessment and program evaluation
Which form of feminist theory argues that gender is a social construct used to create
power imbalances between men and women?
Socialist feminism
Radical feminism
Liberal feminism - Answers -Radical feminism
Tiffany is a social worker who believes she has discovered an ethical dilemma involving
a client. Tiffany has consulted the NASW Code of Ethics to determine which ethical
standards are being compromised and what values may be at stake, and believes she
has found the heart of the issue in that guidance.
According to the NASW Code of Ethics, what should Tiffany do NEXT?
Weigh ethical issues in light of the NASW Code of Ethics
Monitor for further ethical issues
Suggest and implement modifications in light of social work values
Determine the presence of an ethical dilemma - Answers -Determine the presence of an
ethical dilemma
Which of the following types of program evaluation is mostly concerned with financial
outcomes?
Cost-benefit analysis
,Cost-effectiveness analysis
Outcome assessment
Cost-benefit ratio - Answers -Cost-benefit analysis
Kevin takes a photograph of his client to advertise for the agency's fundraiser without
telling the client what the photograph would be used for. Which of the following rules is
Kevin breaking?
Client's right to privacy
Informed consent required for disclosure
Client's right to confidentiality - Answers -Informed consent required for disclosure
Dan is the sole caregiver for his elderly father. Recently, Dan has begun abusing his
father.
Which of the following is the BEST possible warning sign that abuse is occurring?
Dan is showing signs of poor self-care
Dan is expressing more emotion lately
Dan is using drugs and alcohol - Answers -Dan is using drugs and alcohol
A functional behavioral assessment may be completed on a student whose behavior
has become inconsistent with his normal behavior. Which of the following is NOT a
common element that a behavioral assessment generally analyzes?
Attendance records
Health assessments
Appearance - Answers -Appearance
A social worker is providing a client with stress inoculation therapy. Which of the
following options BEST identifies what stress inoculation therapy involves?
Helping clients acquire coping skills
Using breathing techniques
Teaching social skills
Prescribing anxiety medications - Answers -Helping clients acquire coping skills
Brian has obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). His social worker recommends that he
join a treatment group with others who have OCD. In the group, he learns more about
the disorder, completes assignments, and exchanges ideas with others in the group.
What type of group is this?
Educational group
Therapy group
Growth group
Support group - Answers -Educational group
,Kristin is working with a young man to help him manage his PTSD that developed after
he was the victim of a traumatic shooting. Her psychosocial assessment should include
all of the following, EXCEPT:
Background and current functioning
The amount of the client's copay
Her impressions, assessment, and recommendations - Answers -The amount of the
client's copay
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages are all part of what development theory?
Freud's psychosexual development theory
Erikson's psychosocial theory
Kohlberg's moral development theory
Piaget's cognitive development theory - Answers -Freud's psychosexual development
theory
With whom did conflict theories originate?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Karl Marx
Thomas Malthus - Answers -Karl Marx
Which of the following is the MOST beneficial factor in the social worker-client system
relationship?
A positive relationship
Cultural competence
Communication that is transparent and focused on the helping relationship
Mutual accountability and clear expectations - Answers -A positive relationship
Linda is meeting her client Joe for their regular session. Linda asks, "If you could fix the
biggest thing wrong in your life, what would your life look like?" This is an example of:
Staging question
Deficit question
Miracle question
Motivational interviewing - Answers -Miracle question
Erica is a high school social worker. One of the students, a young girl named Lin,
seems to be having behavioral problems. She only seems to conform to expectations
when closely monitored and does so chiefly out of fear of being punished. Using
Kohlberg's stages of moral development, should Erica be concerned?
Yes, because Lin appears to be operating at the preconventional stage of moral
development.
, No, because Lin appears to be operating at the conventional stage of moral
development.
No, because Lin appears to be operating at the postconventional stage of moral
development.
Yes, because Lin appears to be operating at the postconventional stage of moral
development. - Answers -Yes, because Lin appears to be operating at the
preconventional stage of moral development.
What does the biological factor of the biopsychosocial model focus on?
It assesses the client's emotional turmoil or lack of self-control.
It assesses the client's genetics, hormones, or physical trauma.
It assesses the client's poverty level or level of education. - Answers -It assesses the
client's genetics, hormones, or physical trauma.
Holly is going to meet a client for the first time. She plans to do a biopsychosocial
history on the client in order to learn more about him. Holly asks her client to bring
collateral data, such as medical records, pictures of family, and other information to their
appointment.
Why is collateral data important?
It helps fill in gaps for the biopsychosocial history that a client might leave out.
It provides information from family members to reveal their observations of the client.
It helps to show if the client is being honest during the biopsychosocial history. -
Answers -It helps fill in gaps for the biopsychosocial history that a client might leave out.
What is the MAIN purpose of conducting a reassessment of the sessions that have
transpired between the client and the social worker?
To determine if services have been effective or if something needs to change.
To prepare the client to transfer to a new social worker if the current one hasn't met the
client's needs.
To remind both the client and the social worker of the goals that they're working on. -
Answers -To determine if services have been effective or if something needs to change.
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