SW 500 Final Exam questions well
answered 2025/2026
Mr. H. discusses the stress related to family's housing. They live in an apartment building that
has been cited for numerous housing code violations. In this situation, the social worker should
first assess the influence of what? - correct answer ✔✔The influence of situation on client
functioning
In an initial session, the client appears to be very anxious. In this situation, the social worker
should first explore what? - correct answer ✔✔If anxiety is normative for environment or
excessive warranting further discussion
In assessing reports of dramatic shifts in behavior or appearance, the social worker should first
assess what? - correct answer ✔✔Assess physical health status
The term acceptability refers to what? - correct answer ✔✔acceptability refers to the extent to
which health services are compatible with a client's cultural values and traditions
the fit between client's values and available health care services
Noncompliance with medical treatment on the part of some minority group individuals may be
related to the fit between what? - correct answer ✔✔differences in views
"Noncompliance" may be related to differences in views regarding Western medicine/Western
health care professionals. In addition, differences arise related to people's comfort in accepting
care (page 219)
, Mrs. B reports that she dislikes taking her medication for high blood pressure because it makes
her "have a funny feeling in her head." In responding to this situation, the social worker should
advise what? - correct answer ✔✔advise Mrs. B to consult with her health care provider.
(Page 220 discusses how older adults could misuse and abuse medications due to often taking
multiple medications)
Which of the following people may be preferable to medical / psychological services in some
cultures? - correct answer ✔✔Caregivers, folk healers, and shamans (p 219)
In interviewing a four-year-old child separate from her parents, the child talks about recurring
fantasies in which she hurts herself. The social worker asks the child if hurting herself means
that she should die. The child hesitates and begins playing with toys. The social worker waits,
hoping that the child will talk more about her fantasies. The best course of action for the social
worker in this situation is to assess what? - correct answer ✔✔Continue to ask questions that
assess the lethality of suicidal ideation and use assessment tools that are specifically made for
children.
assess plans and means for acting out her thoughts
In assessments, the client's ability to act with forethought, consider consequences, and profit
from past mistakes is referred to as what? - correct answer ✔✔judgment
Orientation to time, place, and person and differentiating one's own thoughts and feelings from
those of others are examples of what? - correct answer ✔✔reality testing
When the client's discussion moves from one topic to another without any apparent connection
between the two, he or she is said to have what? (Hint, think of the videos we watched). -
correct answer ✔✔flight of ideas: When a client's response seems to "take off" based on a
particular work or thought, unrelated to logical progression or the original point of the
communication
answered 2025/2026
Mr. H. discusses the stress related to family's housing. They live in an apartment building that
has been cited for numerous housing code violations. In this situation, the social worker should
first assess the influence of what? - correct answer ✔✔The influence of situation on client
functioning
In an initial session, the client appears to be very anxious. In this situation, the social worker
should first explore what? - correct answer ✔✔If anxiety is normative for environment or
excessive warranting further discussion
In assessing reports of dramatic shifts in behavior or appearance, the social worker should first
assess what? - correct answer ✔✔Assess physical health status
The term acceptability refers to what? - correct answer ✔✔acceptability refers to the extent to
which health services are compatible with a client's cultural values and traditions
the fit between client's values and available health care services
Noncompliance with medical treatment on the part of some minority group individuals may be
related to the fit between what? - correct answer ✔✔differences in views
"Noncompliance" may be related to differences in views regarding Western medicine/Western
health care professionals. In addition, differences arise related to people's comfort in accepting
care (page 219)
, Mrs. B reports that she dislikes taking her medication for high blood pressure because it makes
her "have a funny feeling in her head." In responding to this situation, the social worker should
advise what? - correct answer ✔✔advise Mrs. B to consult with her health care provider.
(Page 220 discusses how older adults could misuse and abuse medications due to often taking
multiple medications)
Which of the following people may be preferable to medical / psychological services in some
cultures? - correct answer ✔✔Caregivers, folk healers, and shamans (p 219)
In interviewing a four-year-old child separate from her parents, the child talks about recurring
fantasies in which she hurts herself. The social worker asks the child if hurting herself means
that she should die. The child hesitates and begins playing with toys. The social worker waits,
hoping that the child will talk more about her fantasies. The best course of action for the social
worker in this situation is to assess what? - correct answer ✔✔Continue to ask questions that
assess the lethality of suicidal ideation and use assessment tools that are specifically made for
children.
assess plans and means for acting out her thoughts
In assessments, the client's ability to act with forethought, consider consequences, and profit
from past mistakes is referred to as what? - correct answer ✔✔judgment
Orientation to time, place, and person and differentiating one's own thoughts and feelings from
those of others are examples of what? - correct answer ✔✔reality testing
When the client's discussion moves from one topic to another without any apparent connection
between the two, he or she is said to have what? (Hint, think of the videos we watched). -
correct answer ✔✔flight of ideas: When a client's response seems to "take off" based on a
particular work or thought, unrelated to logical progression or the original point of the
communication
