MSW Evaluation of Practice Final
Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
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Within the first session of Sandra's case, which of the following approaches was
illustrated by the counselor/therapist: - ✔✔Requested that the family collect baseline
information throughout the next week
Outcome-informed practice requires a social worker to do all of the following except:
- ✔✔Maintain
The intervention effect is: - ✔✔To what degree the change in client outcomes is
attributed to the intervention
Decisions in the helping professions are characterized by: - ✔✔Ill-defined goals,
ambiguity and competing values
According to Baron, searching for evidence to support a previously held assumption
is a(n): - ✔✔Confirmation Bias
The EBP definition has created: - ✔✔Confusion and controversy
"How should we evaluate thinking, judgment and decision-making?" is an example
of what type of question emphasized by Baron? - ✔✔The normative question
The revised definition of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) now prominent in human
service professional literature defines EBP as a process that incorporates the best
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, research available, the practitioner's expertise, and ________. - ✔✔Client values and
circumstances
Making sure an instrument is culturally sensitive addresses which of the 6 types of
EBP questions? - ✔✔What assessment tool should be used?
You are a certified EMDR therapist. Before using EMDR with a client, you check if
the client has a dissociative disorder or physical eye ailments. You are addressing
which of the 6 types of EBP questions? - ✔✔What are the potential harmful effects of
interventions, policies, and tools?
One view of evidence-based practice (the one which is the subject of the Gambrill's
book) is: - ✔✔Evidence-based individual decision-making
Ethical obligations require practitioners to involve clients as: - ✔✔Informed
participants
Which of these is a prominent misconception about EBP? - ✔✔Overly restrictive
hierarchy of evidence
A mixed-method study combines: - ✔✔Qualitative and quantitative methods
Placing clients' interests front and center will do all of the following except: -
✔✔Place the selection of interventions in the hands of the social worker
Which one of these is a correct statement about correlational studies? - ✔✔Rank low
on a research hierarchy for effectiveness studies
Performance efficacy refers to the belief that: - ✔✔Certain behavior can be performed
Which of these is a type of correlational study? - ✔✔Case-control design
The gold standard of research designs is: - ✔✔Experimental design
What is the best design to answer this question: "What can I learn about clients,
service delivery, and targets of intervention from the experiences of others?" -
✔✔Qualitative
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Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
100% Pass
Within the first session of Sandra's case, which of the following approaches was
illustrated by the counselor/therapist: - ✔✔Requested that the family collect baseline
information throughout the next week
Outcome-informed practice requires a social worker to do all of the following except:
- ✔✔Maintain
The intervention effect is: - ✔✔To what degree the change in client outcomes is
attributed to the intervention
Decisions in the helping professions are characterized by: - ✔✔Ill-defined goals,
ambiguity and competing values
According to Baron, searching for evidence to support a previously held assumption
is a(n): - ✔✔Confirmation Bias
The EBP definition has created: - ✔✔Confusion and controversy
"How should we evaluate thinking, judgment and decision-making?" is an example
of what type of question emphasized by Baron? - ✔✔The normative question
The revised definition of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) now prominent in human
service professional literature defines EBP as a process that incorporates the best
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, research available, the practitioner's expertise, and ________. - ✔✔Client values and
circumstances
Making sure an instrument is culturally sensitive addresses which of the 6 types of
EBP questions? - ✔✔What assessment tool should be used?
You are a certified EMDR therapist. Before using EMDR with a client, you check if
the client has a dissociative disorder or physical eye ailments. You are addressing
which of the 6 types of EBP questions? - ✔✔What are the potential harmful effects of
interventions, policies, and tools?
One view of evidence-based practice (the one which is the subject of the Gambrill's
book) is: - ✔✔Evidence-based individual decision-making
Ethical obligations require practitioners to involve clients as: - ✔✔Informed
participants
Which of these is a prominent misconception about EBP? - ✔✔Overly restrictive
hierarchy of evidence
A mixed-method study combines: - ✔✔Qualitative and quantitative methods
Placing clients' interests front and center will do all of the following except: -
✔✔Place the selection of interventions in the hands of the social worker
Which one of these is a correct statement about correlational studies? - ✔✔Rank low
on a research hierarchy for effectiveness studies
Performance efficacy refers to the belief that: - ✔✔Certain behavior can be performed
Which of these is a type of correlational study? - ✔✔Case-control design
The gold standard of research designs is: - ✔✔Experimental design
What is the best design to answer this question: "What can I learn about clients,
service delivery, and targets of intervention from the experiences of others?" -
✔✔Qualitative
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