SOWK 370 Exam Review (Quizzes)
correctly answered to pass
The traditional view of helping clients involves asking them questions primarily about what? -
correct answer ✔✔problems, mistakes, causes, and solutions; focus on client's feelings
The traditional view is similar to the model used in what other profession - correct answer
✔✔Medical Model (emphasizes diagnosis rather than treatment)
Which type of questions did the students not ask Rosie
a. Questions about times which go better for her
b. Questions about her problems
c. Questinos about potential solution that might help her
d. Questions about her mistakes - correct answer ✔✔a. Questions about times which go better
for her
Which is not a stage of problem solving?
a. Intervention
b. Exploration of the client's feelings
c. Description of the problem and data collection
d. Problem assessment - correct answer ✔✔b. Exploration of the client's feelings
The strengths perspective of practice:
a. Regularly uses categories of psychological dysfunction in the helping process
b. Relies mainly on scientific expertise to solve client problems
c. Emphasizes uncovering the underlying causes of problems
,d. Focuses on discovering how clients have managed to survive in their circumstances - correct
answer ✔✔d. Focuses on discovering how clients have managed to survive in their
circumstances
WHat was different about Cheryl's interview with Rosie? - correct answer ✔✔When Cheryl
interviewed Rosie she directed the conversation around describing the problem, developing
well-formed goals, exploring the exceptions, giving feedback, and evalutating Rosie's progress.
Basically, this allows Rosie to be the expert of her own life rather than depending on Cheryl to
solve her problems
Solution-builing relies on clients' frames of reference for definitions of:
a. What they would like different in their lives
b. What will be different in their lives when their problems are solved
c. Their inner and outer resources
d. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔d. All of the above
What does it mean to be "not-knowing"? - correct answer ✔✔Adopting the posure of not
knowing means to rely on the client's perceptions and explanations. It allows the clinician to
develop the need to know more about a client rather than forming pre-conceived notions about
them
Give an example of a relationship question - correct answer ✔✔Who knows you well?
Describe your relationship with your mother/father/husband/wife/childredn/etc...
In what ways can you appreciate _____?
How do you with they would act differently?
, If they were here right now how would they describe you?
Allowing the client to be the "expert" means that the practitioner
a. Has to educate the client on how to interpret their situation
b. Is actively engaged but seeking the client's perspectives
c. Takes a mostly passive role and allows the clients to do almost all of the work in the interview
d. Does the majority of the work in the interview - correct answer ✔✔b. Is actively engaged but
seeking the client's perspectives.
What two things does the text recommend going when you first meet your client - correct
answer ✔✔Introduction and role clarification
What is one potential benefit of asking a client how they spend their workday? - correct answer
✔✔Getting to know a client allows the practitioner to indentify strengths, get details about a
client, and look for hints of possibility
If a client told you that a lack of education was a problem for them, what question would the
text suggest you follow up with? - correct answer ✔✔What in your life makes you say that a
lack of education is a problem right now?
Client perceptions about the situation are:
a. Rarely impacted by the interviewing process
b. Concrete and measurable
c. More or less fluid and shifting
d. Usually difficult to shift - correct answer ✔✔c. More or less fluid and shifting
What message can we send by asking clients what they have tried do far? - correct answer
✔✔This sends the message that we think our clients are competent
correctly answered to pass
The traditional view of helping clients involves asking them questions primarily about what? -
correct answer ✔✔problems, mistakes, causes, and solutions; focus on client's feelings
The traditional view is similar to the model used in what other profession - correct answer
✔✔Medical Model (emphasizes diagnosis rather than treatment)
Which type of questions did the students not ask Rosie
a. Questions about times which go better for her
b. Questions about her problems
c. Questinos about potential solution that might help her
d. Questions about her mistakes - correct answer ✔✔a. Questions about times which go better
for her
Which is not a stage of problem solving?
a. Intervention
b. Exploration of the client's feelings
c. Description of the problem and data collection
d. Problem assessment - correct answer ✔✔b. Exploration of the client's feelings
The strengths perspective of practice:
a. Regularly uses categories of psychological dysfunction in the helping process
b. Relies mainly on scientific expertise to solve client problems
c. Emphasizes uncovering the underlying causes of problems
,d. Focuses on discovering how clients have managed to survive in their circumstances - correct
answer ✔✔d. Focuses on discovering how clients have managed to survive in their
circumstances
WHat was different about Cheryl's interview with Rosie? - correct answer ✔✔When Cheryl
interviewed Rosie she directed the conversation around describing the problem, developing
well-formed goals, exploring the exceptions, giving feedback, and evalutating Rosie's progress.
Basically, this allows Rosie to be the expert of her own life rather than depending on Cheryl to
solve her problems
Solution-builing relies on clients' frames of reference for definitions of:
a. What they would like different in their lives
b. What will be different in their lives when their problems are solved
c. Their inner and outer resources
d. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔d. All of the above
What does it mean to be "not-knowing"? - correct answer ✔✔Adopting the posure of not
knowing means to rely on the client's perceptions and explanations. It allows the clinician to
develop the need to know more about a client rather than forming pre-conceived notions about
them
Give an example of a relationship question - correct answer ✔✔Who knows you well?
Describe your relationship with your mother/father/husband/wife/childredn/etc...
In what ways can you appreciate _____?
How do you with they would act differently?
, If they were here right now how would they describe you?
Allowing the client to be the "expert" means that the practitioner
a. Has to educate the client on how to interpret their situation
b. Is actively engaged but seeking the client's perspectives
c. Takes a mostly passive role and allows the clients to do almost all of the work in the interview
d. Does the majority of the work in the interview - correct answer ✔✔b. Is actively engaged but
seeking the client's perspectives.
What two things does the text recommend going when you first meet your client - correct
answer ✔✔Introduction and role clarification
What is one potential benefit of asking a client how they spend their workday? - correct answer
✔✔Getting to know a client allows the practitioner to indentify strengths, get details about a
client, and look for hints of possibility
If a client told you that a lack of education was a problem for them, what question would the
text suggest you follow up with? - correct answer ✔✔What in your life makes you say that a
lack of education is a problem right now?
Client perceptions about the situation are:
a. Rarely impacted by the interviewing process
b. Concrete and measurable
c. More or less fluid and shifting
d. Usually difficult to shift - correct answer ✔✔c. More or less fluid and shifting
What message can we send by asking clients what they have tried do far? - correct answer
✔✔This sends the message that we think our clients are competent
