AU Practice Exam 2025 Questions
and Answers
A) cognitive dissonance - ✔✔Upon, intake a client who professes to be health conscious
reports that she smokes cigarettes, when ask by the SOWO if she is aware of health risks
associated with smoking, the client states that "the reports are filled with
misinformation and the hazards are not that great." The client's assertion MOST likely
results from?
A) Cognitive Dissonance
B) Metacommunication
C) Displacement
D) Intellectualization
C) Listening attentively while looking at the client as he describes his feelings - ✔✔A
client is upset about the breakup of his marriage. He feels distraught and does not think
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,that he will ever have another intimate relationship. In this situation, the social worker
can BEST demonstrate empathy by:
A) Discussing similar events in the social worker's life that have been resolved
successfully
B) Telling the client that many people in this situation feel similarly
C) Listening attentively while looking at the client as he describes his feelings
D) Helping the client to find ways to cope with his emotions during this difficult time
B. Symbolic Interactionism - ✔✔A client is upset because a boy whom she recently
kissed broke up with her. The client states that she does not understand why the
breakup occurred, as the kiss indicated that he has strong feelings toward her. The
SOWO explains that kissing may not have the same meaning for the boy. The social
worker's statement is rooted in which theoretical perspective?
A) Self psychology
B) Symbolic interactionism
C) Operant Conditioning
D) Object relations
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,D) Displacement - ✔✔A child who is receiving services from a child protection agency
due to physical abuse it referred to a school social worker because of bullying behavior.
In the last month, the child has hit several of his peers while in school. The child is
MOST likely using which defense mechanism?
A. Compensation
B. Incorporation
C. Rationalization
D. Displacement
B. Explore clients' relationships with other people and entities in their environments -
✔✔Ecomaps are best defined as visual tools to:
A. Understand where natural resources are scarce and conservation must occur
B. Explore clients' relationships with other people and entities in their environment
C. Guide environmental justice advocacy effort on the micro, mezzo, and macro levels
D. Show sources of power within all types of environmental systems
D) Discuss the implications of the testing for him and his family - ✔✔A Client is in his
early 20s meets with a social worker to discuss his decision to have predictive testing
for Huntington's disease, which occurs later in life. it is not curable, but he things it will
be useful in making decisions about getting married and starting a family. he states that
he does not want anyone to have to care for him so he would not get married or have
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, children if it is found that he will eventually develop the disease. In order to best assist
the client, the SOWO should?
A. Discourage him from undergoing testing because marrying and having children are
important life tasks.
B. Ask him about his risk factors so that a better recommendation about testing can be
made
C. Encourage testing so that he can make informed choices now and in the future
D. Discuss the implications of the testing for him and his family.
C) Ethnicity - ✔✔A client who is discriminated against due to his or her national origin
and/or culture is being judged based on
A)Nondominant ancestry
B. Race
C. Ethnicity
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and Answers
A) cognitive dissonance - ✔✔Upon, intake a client who professes to be health conscious
reports that she smokes cigarettes, when ask by the SOWO if she is aware of health risks
associated with smoking, the client states that "the reports are filled with
misinformation and the hazards are not that great." The client's assertion MOST likely
results from?
A) Cognitive Dissonance
B) Metacommunication
C) Displacement
D) Intellectualization
C) Listening attentively while looking at the client as he describes his feelings - ✔✔A
client is upset about the breakup of his marriage. He feels distraught and does not think
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,that he will ever have another intimate relationship. In this situation, the social worker
can BEST demonstrate empathy by:
A) Discussing similar events in the social worker's life that have been resolved
successfully
B) Telling the client that many people in this situation feel similarly
C) Listening attentively while looking at the client as he describes his feelings
D) Helping the client to find ways to cope with his emotions during this difficult time
B. Symbolic Interactionism - ✔✔A client is upset because a boy whom she recently
kissed broke up with her. The client states that she does not understand why the
breakup occurred, as the kiss indicated that he has strong feelings toward her. The
SOWO explains that kissing may not have the same meaning for the boy. The social
worker's statement is rooted in which theoretical perspective?
A) Self psychology
B) Symbolic interactionism
C) Operant Conditioning
D) Object relations
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,D) Displacement - ✔✔A child who is receiving services from a child protection agency
due to physical abuse it referred to a school social worker because of bullying behavior.
In the last month, the child has hit several of his peers while in school. The child is
MOST likely using which defense mechanism?
A. Compensation
B. Incorporation
C. Rationalization
D. Displacement
B. Explore clients' relationships with other people and entities in their environments -
✔✔Ecomaps are best defined as visual tools to:
A. Understand where natural resources are scarce and conservation must occur
B. Explore clients' relationships with other people and entities in their environment
C. Guide environmental justice advocacy effort on the micro, mezzo, and macro levels
D. Show sources of power within all types of environmental systems
D) Discuss the implications of the testing for him and his family - ✔✔A Client is in his
early 20s meets with a social worker to discuss his decision to have predictive testing
for Huntington's disease, which occurs later in life. it is not curable, but he things it will
be useful in making decisions about getting married and starting a family. he states that
he does not want anyone to have to care for him so he would not get married or have
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, children if it is found that he will eventually develop the disease. In order to best assist
the client, the SOWO should?
A. Discourage him from undergoing testing because marrying and having children are
important life tasks.
B. Ask him about his risk factors so that a better recommendation about testing can be
made
C. Encourage testing so that he can make informed choices now and in the future
D. Discuss the implications of the testing for him and his family.
C) Ethnicity - ✔✔A client who is discriminated against due to his or her national origin
and/or culture is being judged based on
A)Nondominant ancestry
B. Race
C. Ethnicity
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