TAMU-C SW COMP REVIEW (CLINICAL PRACTICE) QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED!!
A woman who was referred to a community mental health agency by the local hospital is tested twice for
AIDS. Though test results are negative, she requests another test. The social worker should assess? -
(answer)the reasons for her concern.
DSM-IV-TR describes a group of symptom patterns limited to a specific ethnic or national group as? -
(answer)a culture-bound syndrome.
After an incident in which a neighbor's dog attacked and bit her, a child refuses to be near dogs, has
frequent nightmares and seems to "replay" the event. The likely diagnosis is? - (answer)post-traumatic
stress disorder.
A social worker at a suicide hotline receives a call at 2:00am from someone who says he is depressed and
contemplating suicide. The social worker should? - (answer)send a crisis worker immediately or convince
him to go to the hospital emergency room.
Carly has made a good adjustment to being home since her recent discharge from a psychiatric hospital
with a diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder. In her first outpatient interview with Susan, a clinical social
worker, Carly explains the auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions with which she suffered prior
to hospitalization. Midway through this explanation, Carly tells the worker that she is feeling very upset
by remembering these details. Susan suggests that they change topics for now and that Carly should talk
about her return home and how she is managing day-to-day. Why should Susan make this intervention? -
(answer)Clinical social workers avoid overcoming repression in fragile clients.
In assessing a personality disorder, the worker would not include? - (answer)the presence of
hallucinations.
Margot is a client with Histrionic Personality Disorder. After meeting weekly with her social worker,
Brian, for six months, Margot is describing her recent work evaluation in which her manager said that
Margot is not a team player and that she asks for more supervision and feedback than should be
necessary. Margot is hurt and angry, and asks Brian for sympathetic agreement that the manager is
being unfair. Instead, Brian asks Margot to think about how her job performance might have contributed
to the manager's assessment. What rationale is NOT applicable to explain Brian's intervention? -
(answer)Workers should remain neutral about client's behavior choices.
, TAMU-C SW COMP REVIEW (CLINICAL PRACTICE) QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED!!
The most important consideration in choosing a goal with a client is? - (answer)what the client wants.
A client's capacity to enter a social work relationship cannot usually be determined by? - (answer)age.
A criterion that is not a measure of a client's motivation is? - (answer)ego strength.
A "professional relationship" between the social worker and the client would NOT include? - (answer)an
arena for a transference relationship in which the worker encourages the client to explore early libidinal
fears with the aim of reenacting them in the worker client relationship.
In the initial phase of treatment, the primary task of a social worker is to? - (answer)understand why the
client is seeking help.
To diminish a client's resistance the worker would? - (answer)acknowledge the client's ambivalence
about accepting help.
The most appropriate technique to use with a new client who is decompensating is? - (answer)ego
support.
Assertive casework is a technique in which? - (answer)within a very short time limit, the caseworker asks
probing questions and provides direct interventions.
A key element of Sigmund Freud's work that is the basis of social casework is the idea of? -
(answer)transference.
Using the technique of "modifying the environment" helps to diminish? - (answer)objective anxiety.
In the social work relationship, the social worker should be careful not to act on? - (answer)a
countertransference reaction.
AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED!!
A woman who was referred to a community mental health agency by the local hospital is tested twice for
AIDS. Though test results are negative, she requests another test. The social worker should assess? -
(answer)the reasons for her concern.
DSM-IV-TR describes a group of symptom patterns limited to a specific ethnic or national group as? -
(answer)a culture-bound syndrome.
After an incident in which a neighbor's dog attacked and bit her, a child refuses to be near dogs, has
frequent nightmares and seems to "replay" the event. The likely diagnosis is? - (answer)post-traumatic
stress disorder.
A social worker at a suicide hotline receives a call at 2:00am from someone who says he is depressed and
contemplating suicide. The social worker should? - (answer)send a crisis worker immediately or convince
him to go to the hospital emergency room.
Carly has made a good adjustment to being home since her recent discharge from a psychiatric hospital
with a diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder. In her first outpatient interview with Susan, a clinical social
worker, Carly explains the auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions with which she suffered prior
to hospitalization. Midway through this explanation, Carly tells the worker that she is feeling very upset
by remembering these details. Susan suggests that they change topics for now and that Carly should talk
about her return home and how she is managing day-to-day. Why should Susan make this intervention? -
(answer)Clinical social workers avoid overcoming repression in fragile clients.
In assessing a personality disorder, the worker would not include? - (answer)the presence of
hallucinations.
Margot is a client with Histrionic Personality Disorder. After meeting weekly with her social worker,
Brian, for six months, Margot is describing her recent work evaluation in which her manager said that
Margot is not a team player and that she asks for more supervision and feedback than should be
necessary. Margot is hurt and angry, and asks Brian for sympathetic agreement that the manager is
being unfair. Instead, Brian asks Margot to think about how her job performance might have contributed
to the manager's assessment. What rationale is NOT applicable to explain Brian's intervention? -
(answer)Workers should remain neutral about client's behavior choices.
, TAMU-C SW COMP REVIEW (CLINICAL PRACTICE) QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED!!
The most important consideration in choosing a goal with a client is? - (answer)what the client wants.
A client's capacity to enter a social work relationship cannot usually be determined by? - (answer)age.
A criterion that is not a measure of a client's motivation is? - (answer)ego strength.
A "professional relationship" between the social worker and the client would NOT include? - (answer)an
arena for a transference relationship in which the worker encourages the client to explore early libidinal
fears with the aim of reenacting them in the worker client relationship.
In the initial phase of treatment, the primary task of a social worker is to? - (answer)understand why the
client is seeking help.
To diminish a client's resistance the worker would? - (answer)acknowledge the client's ambivalence
about accepting help.
The most appropriate technique to use with a new client who is decompensating is? - (answer)ego
support.
Assertive casework is a technique in which? - (answer)within a very short time limit, the caseworker asks
probing questions and provides direct interventions.
A key element of Sigmund Freud's work that is the basis of social casework is the idea of? -
(answer)transference.
Using the technique of "modifying the environment" helps to diminish? - (answer)objective anxiety.
In the social work relationship, the social worker should be careful not to act on? - (answer)a
countertransference reaction.
