ASWB LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
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✔✔Which of the below questions is not evidence of discrimination in a job interview or
job application process:
a. Please send a photograph with the application
b. What is your birthdate?
c. What is your husband's occupation?
d. List your previous employment - ✔✔d. List your previous employment
✔✔People from Latino cultures tend to accept help from experts who:
a. sound very knowledgeable and work for prestigious institutions
b. have a reputation for being knowledgeable about a certain subject and are a relative
or friend of the person in need
c. are not Latino, but are highly credentialed
d. speak Spanish, are knowledgeable about the area of concern, and have a good
reputation in the community - ✔✔d. speak Spanish, are knowledgeable about the area
of concern, and have a good reputation in the community
✔✔A generalist social worker is most concerned about:
a. focusing on the hierarchy of client needs and the way they interact with the client's
problems
b. her/his relationship with the client
c. the client's emotional well-being
d. the way a person's spirit is connected to the client's physical well-being - ✔✔a.
focusing on the hierarchy of client needs and the way they interact with the client's
problems
✔✔In a clinical setting the most likely statistically significant program evaluation design
would be:
a. experimental
b. quasi experimental
c. single subject
d. type 2 - ✔✔b. quasi experimental
✔✔Dysfunctional families that try to maintain the appearance of open, reciprocal
relationships with each other are best described by the term:
a. enmeshment
b. mystification
c. pseudo-mutuality
,d. disoriented - ✔✔c. pseudo-mutuality
✔✔The most significant clinical purpose for maintaining social work records in a family
agency is:
a. to facilitate worker accountability for treatment quality
b. to assess client progress continually and to revise and update treatment planning
c. to provide documentation that protects the agency and the worker from malpractice
suits
d. to provide continuity of care and to simplify transfer if the social worker leaves - ✔✔b.
to assess client progress continually and to revise and update treatment planning
✔✔A social worker works with a clientele with varied substance and chemical
dependencies and decides to establish a new group focused on drug and alcohol
rehabilitation. In the first stages of the group, the worker might expect:
a. denial, rationalization, projection
b. low self worth, acceptance, projection
c. surrender, delusions, rationalization
d. denial, rationalization, compliance - ✔✔a. denial, rationalization, projection
✔✔When testifying in court, a social worker is asked specific questions concerning his
client, who is a defendant in a criminal case. What concept should guide the social
worker:
a. The social worker has social work privilege and cannot be asked to provide
confidential case information.
b. The social work privilege is not absolute and the worker may be required to testify if
ordered to do so by the judge.
c. The Code of Ethics requires that the worker refuse to testify.
d. Agency policy requires the worker to maintain absolute confidentiality - ✔✔b. The
social work privilege is not absolute and the worker may be required to testify if ordered
to do so by the judge
✔✔A schizophrenic client takes prescribed medications intermittently. After an
argument, his partner kicks him out of their apartment and asks the social worker to
hospitalize him because his condition is deteriorating. The client sometimes
experiences hallucinations, but says he wants to try to live on his own. He refuses
hospitalization and says he plans to stop taking his meds. What is the best course of
action:
a. acknowledge the right to refuse medication and treatment and seek to maintain a
relationship with the client
b. seek an involuntary commitment
, c. continue to insist that the client take the medication and note that previous episodes
of not taking meds have led to hospitalization
d. suggest that his partner care for him for a short period until he is more stable - ✔✔a.
acknowledge the right to refuse medication and treatment and seek to maintain a
relationship with the client
✔✔A fearful client in a mental health agency is repeatedly asked for money by his drug
dependent son. Recently, the son has threatened violence and calls the father at all
hours. How should the social worker advise the father?
a. suggest he disconnect his phone
b. ask the client to tell the son to come to the agency and discuss his problems with the
social worker
c. do nothing as it is likely that the behavior will stop on its own
d. suggest that he has the right to be fearful and should probably call the police - ✔✔d.
suggest that he has the right to be fearful and should probably call the police
✔✔The Colonial Poor Laws established the principle of:
a. neighborly involvement
b. local public responsibility
c. federal responsibility
d. residential care for the poor - ✔✔b. local public responsibility
✔✔A client is diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. It is likely that :
a. his personal life will not be affected
b. he will be excessively studious
c. he will experience performance problems at school and work due to his inability to
finish tasks on time
d. he will not have low self esteem - ✔✔c. he will experience performance problems at
school and work due to his inability to finish tasks on time
✔✔While many variables affect suicidality among teenagers, which item below has
been a particularly powerful predictor:
a. a recent parental divorce
b. a transfer to a new school
c. a history of occasional drug use
d. a change in family economic status - ✔✔a. a recent parental divorce
✔✔a patient experiencing dysthymic disorder will:
a. Vividly describe hallucinations that began at least three months ago
b. Have associated eating disorders that began at least six months ago
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✔✔Which of the below questions is not evidence of discrimination in a job interview or
job application process:
a. Please send a photograph with the application
b. What is your birthdate?
c. What is your husband's occupation?
d. List your previous employment - ✔✔d. List your previous employment
✔✔People from Latino cultures tend to accept help from experts who:
a. sound very knowledgeable and work for prestigious institutions
b. have a reputation for being knowledgeable about a certain subject and are a relative
or friend of the person in need
c. are not Latino, but are highly credentialed
d. speak Spanish, are knowledgeable about the area of concern, and have a good
reputation in the community - ✔✔d. speak Spanish, are knowledgeable about the area
of concern, and have a good reputation in the community
✔✔A generalist social worker is most concerned about:
a. focusing on the hierarchy of client needs and the way they interact with the client's
problems
b. her/his relationship with the client
c. the client's emotional well-being
d. the way a person's spirit is connected to the client's physical well-being - ✔✔a.
focusing on the hierarchy of client needs and the way they interact with the client's
problems
✔✔In a clinical setting the most likely statistically significant program evaluation design
would be:
a. experimental
b. quasi experimental
c. single subject
d. type 2 - ✔✔b. quasi experimental
✔✔Dysfunctional families that try to maintain the appearance of open, reciprocal
relationships with each other are best described by the term:
a. enmeshment
b. mystification
c. pseudo-mutuality
,d. disoriented - ✔✔c. pseudo-mutuality
✔✔The most significant clinical purpose for maintaining social work records in a family
agency is:
a. to facilitate worker accountability for treatment quality
b. to assess client progress continually and to revise and update treatment planning
c. to provide documentation that protects the agency and the worker from malpractice
suits
d. to provide continuity of care and to simplify transfer if the social worker leaves - ✔✔b.
to assess client progress continually and to revise and update treatment planning
✔✔A social worker works with a clientele with varied substance and chemical
dependencies and decides to establish a new group focused on drug and alcohol
rehabilitation. In the first stages of the group, the worker might expect:
a. denial, rationalization, projection
b. low self worth, acceptance, projection
c. surrender, delusions, rationalization
d. denial, rationalization, compliance - ✔✔a. denial, rationalization, projection
✔✔When testifying in court, a social worker is asked specific questions concerning his
client, who is a defendant in a criminal case. What concept should guide the social
worker:
a. The social worker has social work privilege and cannot be asked to provide
confidential case information.
b. The social work privilege is not absolute and the worker may be required to testify if
ordered to do so by the judge.
c. The Code of Ethics requires that the worker refuse to testify.
d. Agency policy requires the worker to maintain absolute confidentiality - ✔✔b. The
social work privilege is not absolute and the worker may be required to testify if ordered
to do so by the judge
✔✔A schizophrenic client takes prescribed medications intermittently. After an
argument, his partner kicks him out of their apartment and asks the social worker to
hospitalize him because his condition is deteriorating. The client sometimes
experiences hallucinations, but says he wants to try to live on his own. He refuses
hospitalization and says he plans to stop taking his meds. What is the best course of
action:
a. acknowledge the right to refuse medication and treatment and seek to maintain a
relationship with the client
b. seek an involuntary commitment
, c. continue to insist that the client take the medication and note that previous episodes
of not taking meds have led to hospitalization
d. suggest that his partner care for him for a short period until he is more stable - ✔✔a.
acknowledge the right to refuse medication and treatment and seek to maintain a
relationship with the client
✔✔A fearful client in a mental health agency is repeatedly asked for money by his drug
dependent son. Recently, the son has threatened violence and calls the father at all
hours. How should the social worker advise the father?
a. suggest he disconnect his phone
b. ask the client to tell the son to come to the agency and discuss his problems with the
social worker
c. do nothing as it is likely that the behavior will stop on its own
d. suggest that he has the right to be fearful and should probably call the police - ✔✔d.
suggest that he has the right to be fearful and should probably call the police
✔✔The Colonial Poor Laws established the principle of:
a. neighborly involvement
b. local public responsibility
c. federal responsibility
d. residential care for the poor - ✔✔b. local public responsibility
✔✔A client is diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. It is likely that :
a. his personal life will not be affected
b. he will be excessively studious
c. he will experience performance problems at school and work due to his inability to
finish tasks on time
d. he will not have low self esteem - ✔✔c. he will experience performance problems at
school and work due to his inability to finish tasks on time
✔✔While many variables affect suicidality among teenagers, which item below has
been a particularly powerful predictor:
a. a recent parental divorce
b. a transfer to a new school
c. a history of occasional drug use
d. a change in family economic status - ✔✔a. a recent parental divorce
✔✔a patient experiencing dysthymic disorder will:
a. Vividly describe hallucinations that began at least three months ago
b. Have associated eating disorders that began at least six months ago
