SW 500 FOUNDATION SOCIAL WORK SKILLS AND INTERVENTIONS
EXAM 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Continue Verbalizing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In the context of furthering responses, minimal prompts
signal the social worker's attentiveness and encourage the client to continue verbalizing.
They can be either nonverbal or verbal. Therefore, in the context of verbal following, skills in following
have been related to **client continuance
Incongruent Responses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In the context of verbal following, incongruent
responses to clients have been more associated with discontinuance
A Reframe - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of adding content. Here, the social worker puts the client's
response in a different light beyond what the client had previously considered.
Open-Ended Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Invite expanded expression and leave a client free to
express what seems most relevant and important to him or her. Social workers may formulate open-
ended responses either by asking a question or by giving a polite command.
Embedded Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Do not take the form of a question but embody a request
for information. Examples of embedded questions include:
"I'm curious about ...," "I'm wondering if ...," and "I'm interested in knowing...."
Closed-Ended Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Used chiefly to elicit essential factual information.
Skillful social workers use closed-ended questions sparingly because clients usually reveal extensive
factual information spontaneously as they unfold their stories, aided by the social worker's open-ended
and furthering responses.
Clarification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"How have you concluded that you have a problem with alcohol?"
is a response that would elicit clarification of information from a client.
, Concreteness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Responses that seek concreteness elicit details.
In contrast, empathic responses enable social workers to stay attuned to clients' moment-by-moment
experiencing, thereby focusing on feelings that may present obstacles to the exploration
Summarization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅During the phase of an initial session with a client in which
problems and resources are explored in moderate depth, summarization can be effectively employed to
tie together and highlight essential aspects of the session before proceeding to explore additional
concerns and strengths.
Summarization involves fitting pieces of the problem together to form a coherent whole.
Reflecting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Video - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRq1LC05-A
**Paraphrasing is most closely associated with thoughts.
Simple Reflections - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify the emotions expressed by a client, historically
come from nondirective, client-centered counseling. That is, they simply identify the emotion. They do
not take a stand or attempt to help the client deal with the emotion.
Simple Reflection is an art form! - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The structure of reflection questions is What?
So What? Now What?
What?
• Descriptive
• Facts, what happened, with whom
• Substance of interaction
So What?
• Shift from descriptive to interpretive
EXAM 2 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Continue Verbalizing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In the context of furthering responses, minimal prompts
signal the social worker's attentiveness and encourage the client to continue verbalizing.
They can be either nonverbal or verbal. Therefore, in the context of verbal following, skills in following
have been related to **client continuance
Incongruent Responses - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In the context of verbal following, incongruent
responses to clients have been more associated with discontinuance
A Reframe - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A form of adding content. Here, the social worker puts the client's
response in a different light beyond what the client had previously considered.
Open-Ended Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Invite expanded expression and leave a client free to
express what seems most relevant and important to him or her. Social workers may formulate open-
ended responses either by asking a question or by giving a polite command.
Embedded Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Do not take the form of a question but embody a request
for information. Examples of embedded questions include:
"I'm curious about ...," "I'm wondering if ...," and "I'm interested in knowing...."
Closed-Ended Questions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Used chiefly to elicit essential factual information.
Skillful social workers use closed-ended questions sparingly because clients usually reveal extensive
factual information spontaneously as they unfold their stories, aided by the social worker's open-ended
and furthering responses.
Clarification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"How have you concluded that you have a problem with alcohol?"
is a response that would elicit clarification of information from a client.
, Concreteness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Responses that seek concreteness elicit details.
In contrast, empathic responses enable social workers to stay attuned to clients' moment-by-moment
experiencing, thereby focusing on feelings that may present obstacles to the exploration
Summarization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅During the phase of an initial session with a client in which
problems and resources are explored in moderate depth, summarization can be effectively employed to
tie together and highlight essential aspects of the session before proceeding to explore additional
concerns and strengths.
Summarization involves fitting pieces of the problem together to form a coherent whole.
Reflecting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Video - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRq1LC05-A
**Paraphrasing is most closely associated with thoughts.
Simple Reflections - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identify the emotions expressed by a client, historically
come from nondirective, client-centered counseling. That is, they simply identify the emotion. They do
not take a stand or attempt to help the client deal with the emotion.
Simple Reflection is an art form! - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The structure of reflection questions is What?
So What? Now What?
What?
• Descriptive
• Facts, what happened, with whom
• Substance of interaction
So What?
• Shift from descriptive to interpretive
