LSW Exam Questions Interventions
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2025/2026
A social worker is conducting an intake interview with an individual who has come to his agency
requesting services. The main purpose of the intake interview is to:
Select one:
A. gather a social history.
B. clarify expectations.
C. formulate the problem.
D. determine eligibility. - correct answer ✔D
A recently widowed woman seeks counseling to help her deal with her son's grief. The boy seems very
sad, the woman says, but they have been having difficulty talking about their feelings and memories of
her husband. She doesn't know what to do and hopes that the social worker can provide her with advice
so that she can help her son cope better. Based on what he learns in the interview, the social worker
believes that the woman also needs assistance in dealing with her own grief. What is the social worker's
BEST course of action?
Select one:
A. Discuss this with the woman.
B. Build this help for the woman into the treatment she has asked for.
C. Offer to provide family therapy.
D. See the son for individual therapy and refer the woman to a support group for newly single parents. -
correct answer ✔A
In the policy process, which of the following activities would occur before the others?
Select one:
A. Identifying key decision makers.
,B. Determining resources needed to implement a new policy.
C. Conducting a needs assessment.
D. Making specific policy recommendations. - correct answer ✔C
A client seeks therapy two weeks after being fired from a job that she held for five years. The client says
she's having difficulty dealing with this stressful event, in part, because it was "completely unexpected."
She thought that her job was safe because she recently received a positive performance evaluation. Of
the following additional factors, which one is likely to have the greatest effect on the client's reaction to
this stressful event?
Select one:
A. Her capacity to cope with stress.
B. Her beliefs regarding her ability to cope with stress.
C. Whether the client experiences a second stressful event. - correct answer ✔B
The research goal of formative evaluation is to obtain information to:
Select one:
A. determine whether a program should continue or close.
B. measure the programs effects.
C. identify what modifications are needed so that a program achieves its goal and objectives.
D. identify the needs of a target population. - correct answer ✔C
Ordinarily termination should be discussed for the first time with a client:
Select one:
A. when she has met her treatment goals.
B. during treatment planning.
C. when she brings it up.
D. when she is no longer benefitting from the services. - correct answer ✔B
, A social worker is conducting the first interview with a client who recently divorced her husband. When
the social worker mentions the divorce, the client becomes uncomfortable and begins talking about the
problems she is having with her school-age son. What is the social worker's BEST course of action?
Select one:
A. Allow the client to continue talking about her son if she is not ready yet to talk about her divorce.
B. Refocus the interview to explore the clients reaction to the topic of her divorce and unwillingness to
talk about it.
C. Use the skill of funneling to bring focus to the interview and enable the client to describe her
concerns with greater specificity.
D. Respect the clients right to focus on her son rather than her divorce by providing education about the
effects of divorce on school-age children. - correct answer ✔A
Which statement most accurately reflects Peter Lewinsohns theory of depression?
Select one:
A. Thoughts and feelings are relatively irrelevant to behavior.
B. Principles of learning theory satisfactorily explain depression.
C. Depressed people receive a low rate of positive reinforcement due to environmental stressors and
lack of personal skills.
D. People will tend to repeat behaviors that are positively reinforced. - correct answer ✔C
A social worker has been working in individual therapy with a client for three weeks. During the current
session, the client says that he has been feeling depressed, hopeless, and stuck, and as though nothing
will ever improve. He expresses suicidal ideation. To manage the risk for suicide in this case, what should
the social worker do FIRST?
Select one:
A. Explore what precipitated these feelings.
B. Mobilize the clients support system.
C. Recruit the clients family members to monitor him.
Question and answers verified to pass
2025/2026
A social worker is conducting an intake interview with an individual who has come to his agency
requesting services. The main purpose of the intake interview is to:
Select one:
A. gather a social history.
B. clarify expectations.
C. formulate the problem.
D. determine eligibility. - correct answer ✔D
A recently widowed woman seeks counseling to help her deal with her son's grief. The boy seems very
sad, the woman says, but they have been having difficulty talking about their feelings and memories of
her husband. She doesn't know what to do and hopes that the social worker can provide her with advice
so that she can help her son cope better. Based on what he learns in the interview, the social worker
believes that the woman also needs assistance in dealing with her own grief. What is the social worker's
BEST course of action?
Select one:
A. Discuss this with the woman.
B. Build this help for the woman into the treatment she has asked for.
C. Offer to provide family therapy.
D. See the son for individual therapy and refer the woman to a support group for newly single parents. -
correct answer ✔A
In the policy process, which of the following activities would occur before the others?
Select one:
A. Identifying key decision makers.
,B. Determining resources needed to implement a new policy.
C. Conducting a needs assessment.
D. Making specific policy recommendations. - correct answer ✔C
A client seeks therapy two weeks after being fired from a job that she held for five years. The client says
she's having difficulty dealing with this stressful event, in part, because it was "completely unexpected."
She thought that her job was safe because she recently received a positive performance evaluation. Of
the following additional factors, which one is likely to have the greatest effect on the client's reaction to
this stressful event?
Select one:
A. Her capacity to cope with stress.
B. Her beliefs regarding her ability to cope with stress.
C. Whether the client experiences a second stressful event. - correct answer ✔B
The research goal of formative evaluation is to obtain information to:
Select one:
A. determine whether a program should continue or close.
B. measure the programs effects.
C. identify what modifications are needed so that a program achieves its goal and objectives.
D. identify the needs of a target population. - correct answer ✔C
Ordinarily termination should be discussed for the first time with a client:
Select one:
A. when she has met her treatment goals.
B. during treatment planning.
C. when she brings it up.
D. when she is no longer benefitting from the services. - correct answer ✔B
, A social worker is conducting the first interview with a client who recently divorced her husband. When
the social worker mentions the divorce, the client becomes uncomfortable and begins talking about the
problems she is having with her school-age son. What is the social worker's BEST course of action?
Select one:
A. Allow the client to continue talking about her son if she is not ready yet to talk about her divorce.
B. Refocus the interview to explore the clients reaction to the topic of her divorce and unwillingness to
talk about it.
C. Use the skill of funneling to bring focus to the interview and enable the client to describe her
concerns with greater specificity.
D. Respect the clients right to focus on her son rather than her divorce by providing education about the
effects of divorce on school-age children. - correct answer ✔A
Which statement most accurately reflects Peter Lewinsohns theory of depression?
Select one:
A. Thoughts and feelings are relatively irrelevant to behavior.
B. Principles of learning theory satisfactorily explain depression.
C. Depressed people receive a low rate of positive reinforcement due to environmental stressors and
lack of personal skills.
D. People will tend to repeat behaviors that are positively reinforced. - correct answer ✔C
A social worker has been working in individual therapy with a client for three weeks. During the current
session, the client says that he has been feeling depressed, hopeless, and stuck, and as though nothing
will ever improve. He expresses suicidal ideation. To manage the risk for suicide in this case, what should
the social worker do FIRST?
Select one:
A. Explore what precipitated these feelings.
B. Mobilize the clients support system.
C. Recruit the clients family members to monitor him.
