ASWB Bachelors Exam Questions With
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A patient whose hand was severed in an accident is referred to the hospital social worker.
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What should the social worker do first?
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A. Present available rehabilitation options
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B. Evaluate the patient's social supports
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C. Assess the patient's emotional reaction
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D. Gather social history information - correct answer...✔✔
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C. Assess the patient's emotional reaction
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Rational: In the aftermath of a life changing event such as the described loss of a hand, an a
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ssessment of the patients emotional response must come first
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A social worker works with a large number of clients who are gay or lesbian. The social work
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er notices many of the clients have a common issue of low self-
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esteem stemming from the perception that society labels them as bad people. What is the s
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ocial worker's best response?
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A. Lobby for new laws to fight homophobia
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B. Educate community members on gay and lesbian issues
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C. Refer the clients to a gay or lesbian therapist
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D. Offer a gay and lesbian support group - correct answer...✔✔
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D. Offer a gay and lesbian support group
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Rational: The offer of a support group is the best response because it creates immediate im
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pact to provide support for an often marginalized population.
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What is the most effective way for a social worker to determine the relationship between en
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vironmental variables and the client's presenting problem? k k k k k k
A. Observing the client's living arrangements
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B. Obtaining psychosocial information
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C Evaluating the client's social skills.
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D. Interviewing collateral sources - correct answer...✔✔
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B. Obtaining psychosocial information
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Rational: Observing the client's living arrangements (A) and interviewing collateral sources
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(D) give the social worker information. However, interacting with the client to gain psychoso
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cial insight (key B) is the most effective path for the social worker. (C) would not be helpful,
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What does knowledge of family life cycle theory enable social workers to do?
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A. Predict the psychosocial development of individual family members
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B. Determine levels of family member task accomplishment
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C. Assess dysfunctional family interactions
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, D. Explain family violence risk - correct answer...✔✔
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B. Determine levels of family member task accomplishment
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Rational: Family life cycle theory looks at the progression of the family from stage to stage a
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s it achieves developmental tasks.
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A couple experiencing marital conflict meets with a social worker. They begin by describing
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their division of household duties. She works outside of the home while he maintains the ho
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usehold. What should the social worker explore first? k k k k k k k
A. Satisfaction with gender roles
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B. Sexual relationship
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C. Relationship history
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D. Cultural backgrounds - correct answer...✔✔A. Satisfaction with gender roles
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Rational: In this vignette, the couple experiencing conflict bring up household duties first, m
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aking it important for the social worker to first address their feelings around the way these d
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uties are handled and the relationship to perceived gender roles.
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A social worker plans to meet with a client for an intake interview. Referral information indic
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ates the client is hard of hearing. What should the social worker do first?
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A. Determine the client's preference for communicating
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B. Arrange for an interpreter for the client during the interview
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C. Ask the client to bring a family member to the interview
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D. Review literature on deaf culture - correct answer...✔✔
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A. Determine the client's preference for communicating
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Rational: This item requires the test taker to understand culturally competent practice, in w
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hich this scenario requires the social worker to first learn the client's communication prefere
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nce
What is the most effective intervention strategy used by social workers with older clients wh
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o experience negative stereotypes, age-
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based discrimination, exploitation, and/or compromising of their rights?
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A. Empowerment
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D. Confrontation - correct answer...✔✔A. Empowerment
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A parent brings her 4-year-
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old to meet with a social worker. The parent expresses concern that her child does not play
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with others on the playground at daycare. The social worker observes that the child does no
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t reciprocate interaction with the parent. What should the social worker do?
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A. Explain that the 4-year-old is too young to play interactively
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B. Express concern that the child may have developmental problems
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C. Suggest that the mother schedule play dates with the child
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