LSW Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
A social worker is conducting an intake interview with an individual who has
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come to his agency requesting services. The main purpose of the intake interview
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is to:
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Select one: |
A. gather a social history.
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B. clarify expectations.
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C. formulate the problem.
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D. determine eligibility. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-D
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A recently widowed woman seeks counseling to help her deal with her son's grief.
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|The boy seems very sad, the woman says, but they have been having difficulty
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talking about their feelings and memories of her husband. She doesn't know
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what to do and hopes that the social worker can provide her with advice so that
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she can help her son cope better. Based on what he learns in the interview, the
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social worker believes that the woman also needs assistance in dealing with her
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own grief. What is the social worker's BEST course of action?
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Select one: |
A. Discuss this with the woman.
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B. Build this help for the woman into the treatment she has asked for.
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C. Offer to provide family therapy.
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D. See the son for individual therapy and refer the woman to a support group for
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newly single parents. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A
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,In the policy process, which of the following activities would occur before the
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others?
Select one: |
A. Identifying key decision makers.
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B. Determining resources needed to implement a new policy.
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C. Conducting a needs assessment.
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D. Making specific policy recommendations. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-C
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A client seeks therapy two weeks after being fired from a job that she held for
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five years. The client says she's having difficulty dealing with this stressful event,
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in part, because it was "completely unexpected." She thought that her job was
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safe because she recently received a positive performance evaluation. Of the
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following additional factors, which one is likely to have the greatest effect on the
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client's reaction to this stressful event?
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Select one: |
A. Her capacity to cope with stress.
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B. Her beliefs regarding her ability to cope with stress.
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C. Whether the client experiences a second stressful event. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-B
The research goal of formative evaluation is to obtain information to:
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Select one: |
A. determine whether a program should continue or close.
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B. measure the programs effects.
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, C. identify what modifications are needed so that a program achieves its goal and
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objectives.
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D. identify the needs of a target population. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-C
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Ordinarily termination should be discussed for the first time with a client:
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Select one: |
A. when she has met her treatment goals.
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B. during treatment planning.
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C. when she brings it up.
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D. when she is no longer benefitting from the services. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-B
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A social worker is conducting the first interview with a client who recently
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divorced her husband. When the social worker mentions the divorce, the client
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becomes uncomfortable and begins talking about the problems she is having with
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her school-age son. What is the social worker's BEST course of action?
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Select one: |
A. Allow the client to continue talking about her son if she is not ready yet to talk
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about her divorce.
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B. Refocus the interview to explore the clients reaction to the topic of her divorce
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and unwillingness to talk about it.
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C. Use the skill of funneling to bring focus to the interview and enable the client
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to describe her concerns with greater specificity.
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D. Respect the clients right to focus on her son rather than her divorce by
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providing education about the effects of divorce on school-age children. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A |
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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
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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
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social worker believes that the woman also needs assistance in dealing with her
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own grief. What is the social worker's BEST course of action?
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Select one: |
A. Discuss this with the woman.
| | | | |
B. Build this help for the woman into the treatment she has asked for.
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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
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,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
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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.
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B. Her beliefs regarding her ability to cope with stress.
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C. Whether the client experiences a second stressful event. - CORRECT
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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
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Ordinarily termination should be discussed for the first time with a client:
| | | | | | | | | | |
Select one: |
A. when she has met her treatment goals.
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B. during treatment planning.
| | |
C. when she brings it up.
| | | | |
D. when she is no longer benefitting from the services. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-B
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A social worker is conducting the first interview with a client who recently
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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?
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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
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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
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providing education about the effects of divorce on school-age children. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A |
