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2. Neighborhood changes have altered the ethnic and linguistic population of the
community served by a mental health agency. Forty percent of the clients are now
Asian and many do not speak English. Treatment problems result from the marked
inability of staff to communicate easily with clients. Increasing the number of multilingual
clinicians is not immediately feasible. Seeking the best alternative solution, the agency
should:
1. request English-speaking relatives to accompany clients to interviews.
2. hire and train translators conversant with mental health issues.
hire secretaries and other support staff who can double as translators.
4. restrict access to those the agency can best serve. -
\2. The best solution avoids confusing clients and embarrassing them by asking friends,
children, or other relatives to translate sensitive mental health information. Clearly, the
most desirable solution is to hire bilingual and bicultural clinicians, but these are not
immediately available. Thus, a professionally trained translator is appropriate. Asking
secretaries and support staff is less appealing since translating is not their primary task.
It can be problematic for clients to confront a desk clerk at the front desk and then have
the same person sit in on an interview. Answer 4, restricting access to service based on
language, is clearly unethical and inappropriate and would quickly be discerned as a
discriminatory policy.
12. A delusional and disorganized 20-year-old homeless woman appears at a
community mental health agency. She refuses hospitalization, but does not cut off
contact with the worker. What is the social worker's best strategy for helping the
woman?
1. Respect her self-determination and ask her what kind of help she would like.
2. Accompany her to a walk-in psychiatric outpatient emergency facility.
3. Refer the client to eh agency psychiatrist for an appointment later in the week after
consulting with the supervisor. -
\2. Since the client is delusional and disorganized, the worker should continue trying to
provide help. The best immediate solution is for the worker to accompany her to a walk-
in emergency service. The other strategies are not responsive to her immediate need
for help or have no referents within the stem of the question.
14. A client's wife has been separated for a year in what appears to be a bitter and
litigious divorce, calls her husband's social worker for information concerning her
husband's problems. The social worker's best response is to:
1. state that she cannot discuss anything about her cases.
, 2. indicate that the relationship must remain confidential, but that the social worker
would let her husband know at his next appointment that she had called to ask about his
situation.
3. ask her to come in for an appointment.
4. suggest that she not interfere, since it could have a detrimental effect on the
treatment relationship. -
\1. There can be no indication that the husband is a client since this is normally a
confidential matter. To say that the social worker will tell the husband confirms he is in
treatment.
15. When facilitating a client, group, or community's ability to make decisions and
progress toward problem solving, a social worker is acting in the role of:
1. a teacher.
2. a broker.
3. a social change agent.
4. an enabler. -
\4. The key is the idea of facilitation which places the worker in the role of enabler.
25. The social worker's perception of the client's problems should be well-formed:
1. during the first interview.
2. as the client progresses, with the ability to be flexible and change his or her opinion
as more facets of the problem are revealed.
3. within the first two or three contacts.
4. after each interview. -
\3. Current practice, particularly in managed care settings, requires that assessments
are completed rapidly. A worker should have a fairly clear idea of a client's problems
within three visits.
26. A school guidance counselor refers a 15-year-old girl to a clinic for depression and
behavioral problems in school. These problems appear to be relatively new. The most
likely treatment approach is:
1. short-term counseling.
2. group treatment.
3. cognitive therapy.
4. family treatment. -
\1. The problems do not appear pervasive and the treatment should not be excessive.
28. Social workers who function in case management positions are usually most
directed to enhancing which of the personality structures that derive from Freud's
theories?
1. Ego.
2. Id.
3. Conscious motivation.
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