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LMSW Review Exam I: Direct & Indirect Social
Work Practice Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers for Accuracy
1. In determining the appropriateness of a client for a therapy
group the most important single factor is
A) Major events in the life history of the client.
B) Social relationships with the family.
C) Physical or intellectual strengths.
D) Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations,
perception of reality.
✓✓ Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations,
perception of reality.
2. Willard, age 13, comes from a family well known in the
community for its members' involvement with drugs and
alcohol. Willard's two brothers and his mother, though
employed in marginal jobs have serious drug and alcohol
problems. His father died from cirrhosis of the liver associated
with massive alcohol abuse. Willard is in school, seems well
cared for, and has been doing well, but he has recently started
to cut classes. In planning a social work intervention with
Willard, the social worker will need to consider
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A) How to help Willard's mother encourage him to continue to
work hard.
B) How to intervene with the entire family to help them manage
their substance problems.
C) That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming a
substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to
avoid following in the family path.
D) That an abuse report should be filed.
✓✓ That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming
a substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to
avoid following in the family path.
3. During a first interview, a young married woman, who has
recently given birth to her first child, complains of loss of
appetite and inability to sleep. She seems somewhat disheveled
and disorganized, displays a mournful demeanor, and says she
feels unmotivated and overworked. The social worker's first
activity would be to:
A) Assess the suicidal risk
B) Determine the frequency and duration symptoms
C) Record a thorough history
D) Provide reassurance now that the client has sought
treatment
✓✓ Determine the frequency and duration of symptoms
LMSW Review Exam I: Direct & Indirect Social
Work Practice Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers for Accuracy
1. In determining the appropriateness of a client for a therapy
group the most important single factor is
A) Major events in the life history of the client.
B) Social relationships with the family.
C) Physical or intellectual strengths.
D) Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations,
perception of reality.
✓✓ Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations,
perception of reality.
2. Willard, age 13, comes from a family well known in the
community for its members' involvement with drugs and
alcohol. Willard's two brothers and his mother, though
employed in marginal jobs have serious drug and alcohol
problems. His father died from cirrhosis of the liver associated
with massive alcohol abuse. Willard is in school, seems well
cared for, and has been doing well, but he has recently started
to cut classes. In planning a social work intervention with
Willard, the social worker will need to consider
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A) How to help Willard's mother encourage him to continue to
work hard.
B) How to intervene with the entire family to help them manage
their substance problems.
C) That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming a
substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to
avoid following in the family path.
D) That an abuse report should be filed.
✓✓ That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming
a substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to
avoid following in the family path.
3. During a first interview, a young married woman, who has
recently given birth to her first child, complains of loss of
appetite and inability to sleep. She seems somewhat disheveled
and disorganized, displays a mournful demeanor, and says she
feels unmotivated and overworked. The social worker's first
activity would be to:
A) Assess the suicidal risk
B) Determine the frequency and duration symptoms
C) Record a thorough history
D) Provide reassurance now that the client has sought
treatment
✓✓ Determine the frequency and duration of symptoms
