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LMSW Interventions with Clients, Client
Systems Quiz Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
While living at a transitional shelter, a 22-year-old man attempts
suicide two times. A week before his discharge date, the man tells his
social worker that he doesn't want to move back into his parents'
house after he is released. What should the social worker do to respond
to the client's need?
Select one:
A. Arrange other housing for him.
B. Help him find needed resources in the community.
C. Establish a contract in which he agrees to call her if he has suicidal
thoughts after returning home.
D. Call his parents to find out whether they are supportive of him.
Ans: B. Help him find needed resources in the community.
The client is a 50-year-old woman whose presenting problem involves
her relationship with her 26-year-old son. The woman rents out the
guest house on her property to her son, who works part time at a music
supply store. The son spends his money on music downloads, vinyl
records, concerts, and alcohol and relies on his mother to pay for his
food and other needs; he rarely pays his rent. The social worker and
client agree that a significant goal of therapy will be to help the client
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develop greater autonomy in her relationship with her son. Three
weeks later, the client reveals in her session that her son smokes
marijuana every day and is verbally abusive toward her. What should
the social worker do?
Select one:
A. Recommend a session with the client and her son.
B. Have the client give her son an ultimatum: either seek treatment or
move out.
C. Help the client see how she plays a role in her son's addictive
behavior a
Ans: D. Help the client set clear expectations with her son
about behavior that is acceptable and unacceptable in her
home.
A social worker wants to develop a new play therapy program at her
practice for children who have experienced trauma. What should be
her FIRST step in developing this program?
Select one:
A. Define the desired results for the children who participate in the play
therapy program
B. Begin writing a play therapy curriculum based on the clinicians prior
experience with this type of therapy
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C. Recruit children to participate in the program by gaining the consent
of their legal guardians
D. Review existing literature detailing evidence-based practices for
effective play therapy programs
Ans: A. Define the desired results for the children who
participate in the play therapy program
A social worker begins individual therapy with a 52-year-old woman
who has been divorced for 10 years and has one child, a 21-year-old
son. The client is initially reluctant to disclose why she sought
treatment. After some prompting, she reveals that she is concerned
about her son. She describes his problems with drugs and his
unwillingness to work or go to school. She says she's convinced that
he's addicted to drugs. After a few moments of silence, she suddenly
adds that her son becomes very angry when she won't give him money
and often hits her when he's high. She begins to cry a little and says she
blames herself for her son's problems. After he acknowledges the
client's feelings about her situation, what should the social worker do
NEXT?
Select one:
A. Recommend addiction treatment for the son.
B. Provide information about resources.
C. Discuss, explore, and address enabling behavior.
D. Offer training in parenti
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Ans: B. Provide information about resources.
A study's dependent variable is measured on a nominal scale.
Therefore, the researcher can, at most, do which of the following with
the data?
Select one:
A. Identify the mean score.
B. Compare frequencies.
C. Calculate the difference between scores.
D. Determine that one subject has more of the characteristic being
measured than another subject.
Ans: B. Compare frequencies.
A social worker is meeting with a family of three, including the father,
mother, and a 13-year-old son. The parents report that the son has
been acting out ever since he became a teenager - failing to do chores,
talking back to them - and that all of their efforts to discipline him have
failed. He used to "shape up" when they took away his Internet
privileges or allowance, but now he continues to disobey them. The
boy says he wants more freedom to manage his own time and doesn't
want his parents to regiment his life so much. The social worker
observes that the parents are highly involved in the details of the boy's
life, bicker a lot, and seem reluctant to change the way they've been
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LMSW Interventions with Clients, Client
Systems Quiz Questions and Correct
Answers/ Latest Update / Already Graded
While living at a transitional shelter, a 22-year-old man attempts
suicide two times. A week before his discharge date, the man tells his
social worker that he doesn't want to move back into his parents'
house after he is released. What should the social worker do to respond
to the client's need?
Select one:
A. Arrange other housing for him.
B. Help him find needed resources in the community.
C. Establish a contract in which he agrees to call her if he has suicidal
thoughts after returning home.
D. Call his parents to find out whether they are supportive of him.
Ans: B. Help him find needed resources in the community.
The client is a 50-year-old woman whose presenting problem involves
her relationship with her 26-year-old son. The woman rents out the
guest house on her property to her son, who works part time at a music
supply store. The son spends his money on music downloads, vinyl
records, concerts, and alcohol and relies on his mother to pay for his
food and other needs; he rarely pays his rent. The social worker and
client agree that a significant goal of therapy will be to help the client
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develop greater autonomy in her relationship with her son. Three
weeks later, the client reveals in her session that her son smokes
marijuana every day and is verbally abusive toward her. What should
the social worker do?
Select one:
A. Recommend a session with the client and her son.
B. Have the client give her son an ultimatum: either seek treatment or
move out.
C. Help the client see how she plays a role in her son's addictive
behavior a
Ans: D. Help the client set clear expectations with her son
about behavior that is acceptable and unacceptable in her
home.
A social worker wants to develop a new play therapy program at her
practice for children who have experienced trauma. What should be
her FIRST step in developing this program?
Select one:
A. Define the desired results for the children who participate in the play
therapy program
B. Begin writing a play therapy curriculum based on the clinicians prior
experience with this type of therapy
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C. Recruit children to participate in the program by gaining the consent
of their legal guardians
D. Review existing literature detailing evidence-based practices for
effective play therapy programs
Ans: A. Define the desired results for the children who
participate in the play therapy program
A social worker begins individual therapy with a 52-year-old woman
who has been divorced for 10 years and has one child, a 21-year-old
son. The client is initially reluctant to disclose why she sought
treatment. After some prompting, she reveals that she is concerned
about her son. She describes his problems with drugs and his
unwillingness to work or go to school. She says she's convinced that
he's addicted to drugs. After a few moments of silence, she suddenly
adds that her son becomes very angry when she won't give him money
and often hits her when he's high. She begins to cry a little and says she
blames herself for her son's problems. After he acknowledges the
client's feelings about her situation, what should the social worker do
NEXT?
Select one:
A. Recommend addiction treatment for the son.
B. Provide information about resources.
C. Discuss, explore, and address enabling behavior.
D. Offer training in parenti
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Ans: B. Provide information about resources.
A study's dependent variable is measured on a nominal scale.
Therefore, the researcher can, at most, do which of the following with
the data?
Select one:
A. Identify the mean score.
B. Compare frequencies.
C. Calculate the difference between scores.
D. Determine that one subject has more of the characteristic being
measured than another subject.
Ans: B. Compare frequencies.
A social worker is meeting with a family of three, including the father,
mother, and a 13-year-old son. The parents report that the son has
been acting out ever since he became a teenager - failing to do chores,
talking back to them - and that all of their efforts to discipline him have
failed. He used to "shape up" when they took away his Internet
privileges or allowance, but now he continues to disobey them. The
boy says he wants more freedom to manage his own time and doesn't
want his parents to regiment his life so much. The social worker
observes that the parents are highly involved in the details of the boy's
life, bicker a lot, and seem reluctant to change the way they've been
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