LMSW TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
LATEST VERSION 2025
F.A.R.E.A.F.I. - ANSWER First/Next questions
F: Feeling of client to be acknowledged/building rapport
A: Assess
R: Refer
E: Educate
A: Advocate
F: Facilitate
I: Intervene
A.A.S.P.I.R.I.N.S. - ANSWER Best/Most likely questions
A: Acknowledge the client/build rapport
A: Assess
S: Start where the client is
P: Protect life
I: Intoxicated - do not treat, refer
R: Rule out medical issue
I: Informed consent
N: Nonjudgemental stance
S: Support self-determination
E.I.A.G.I.E.T.
Emily Is Always Getting Into Extraordinary Trouble - ANSWER Utilize
during treatment procedures/case management
E: Engage/build rapport
, I: Information gathering
A: Assess
G: Goal-setting/treatment planning
I: Intervention
E: Evaulation
T: Termination
A long-term client who has severe bi-polar disorder informs you that she is tired
of taking her medications that modulate her mood and behavior. She misses the
euphoric high energy she habitually has when not taking medications for 7-10
days. She is under court ordered treatment to see you and her psychiatrist since
she abandoned her two teenage children last year. She had been off medications
for 2 weeks and impulsively left home for an acting job on the west coast.
As you talk with her what will you need to try to accomplish before she leaves
the office?.
A. You must tell her that you have to call the Dr. and the court appointed
worker about her impulsivity.
B. You must tell her that you will petition a mental inquest warrant against her
if she doesn't continue on taking meds- the real term is involuntary
hospitalization.
C. You will call her physician and coordinate subsequent plan of action w/
doctor.
D. Most importantly, encourage her to follow her d - ANSWER D. Encourage
her to follow her doctor's recommendations. Make an appointment to see her in
the next 5 days and then decide the next step based upon her condition.
A social worker working in a residential facility for the developmentally
disabled is meeting for the first time with a mother whose child has just been
admitted to that facility. The social worker asks the mother to express her
feelings regarding the child's placement. The client ignores this request and
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