ASWB PRACTICE QUESTIONS (lmsw level) with correct Answers

Compared to non-abusive parents, parents who physically abuse their children A. Are more easily irritated, and annoyed by their children. B. Have no knowledge or understanding of child development. C. Are more permissive. D. Rely on physical punishment more often. - ANSWER-Your Answer should be A. Despite extensive research in the area, few specific characteristic have been found that distinguish abusive parents from non-abusive parents. The research does show however, that compared to non abusive parents, abusive parents tend to be more easily irritated, and annoyed by their children, in part because they tend to misperceive their children's behaviors in a negative way. Therefore the correct answer is A: More easily irritated and annoyed by their children. An adolescents has been referred to the school social worker because of hostility and fighting with peers. To establish a therapeutic relationship with this client, the social worker should FIRST? A. Discuss confidentiality limitation with the student. B. Advocate with the school administrator to change the student's school program. C. Validate the student's hostile feeling and explore reasons for fighting. D. Reduce the student's tension by discussing school activities - ANSWER-A. Is the correct answer . Discussing the confidentiality limitation (key A) is one of the first things the social workers should do with clients as this prerequisite to the client sharing information with informed consent. In this situation, the social worker would next reduce the students tension (D), then validate the student's hostile feeling and explore reasons for fighting (C). Later, there may be a need for the social worker to advocate with school administration to change the student's school program (B). Therefore, your answer to this question should be key (B). Discuss confidentiality limitation with the student. Studies of abused children seem to indicate A. Most abused children are under the age of. 6 B. Abused children almost never develop emotional attachment to their abusive mothers. C. Socioeconomic status is not a factor in a child abuse. D. Among your children, girls are the most common victims of abuse. - ANSWER-Key (A) is the correct answer. Perhaps not surprisingly, studies have found that young children (under the age of 6) are at greater risk for abuse, probably as result of their inability to defend themselves or escape from the abusive situation To receive Title IV-B for foster care, states are required to provide certain protections to all children in foster care. These protections include all of the following EXCEPT A. Placement in the most family-like setting available, and in close proximity to the child's biological parents or legal guardian. B. Placement consistent with the special needs o the child. C. Provision of a detailed written case plan, and a case review at least every six months. D. A Permanency planning hearing as soon as the child is placed in foster care. - ANSWER-Key (D) is correct: if you are familiar with the protections offer to children in foster care, this question just requires your to read the choices carefully. A permanency planning hearing must be held or the child within 12 months of his or her initial placement or after a determination that reasonable efforts to reunite the family are not required or have been unsuccessful. Therefore, the correct answer is: A permanency planning hearing as soon as the child is placed in foster care. A social worker with a home health agency assess a client for possible dementia. The client lives alone and receives home health aide services. The nursing aide states the client's cognitive abilities have changed significantly in the past several days. In addition , to being confused and disoriented, the client is unsteady when walking. What should the social worker do FIRST? A. Refer the client for a battery of psychological tests. B. Arrange a medical exam for the client as soon as possible. C. Refer the client for adult care services. D. Discuss possible care placement with the client - ANSWER-Key (B). The FIRST action the social should take is to investigate whether the symptoms describe in this question have a neurological or organic basis. (key B). Ignoring the physical symptoms in favor of psychological testing (A) put the client as risk, as does making a referral for adult daycare (C). In addition, discussing placement options (D). The recent onset of these symptoms require immediate action to rule out a medical condition. Therefore the correct answer is B: Arrange a medical exam or the client as soon as possible. A hospital social worker interviews a couple whose infant has recently been hospitalized for cystic fibrosis. The social worker notices that the parent are reluctant to touch the child. Based on this observation, what should be the social worker's FIRST intervention. A. Have the parents talk about their reactions to the child's illness. B. Refer the couple to an appropriate support group. C. Evaluate the situation or out-o home placement or the child. D. Provide the couple with psychoeducation pertaining to cystic fibrosis. - ANSWER-The answer is key (A). The question asked or the FIRST intervention. The social worker has observed the parents reluctance to touch their child, and now should bein an intervention by helping the couple express their feelings. (A) Options, (B), (C), and (D) may be appropriate action to take at a later time.. Therefore, the correct answer is A. In this situation, you want to talk to the parent about their reactions to the child's illness. Which of the following activities MOST accurately measures client progress during social work treatment? A. Comparing the client's current level of functioning in relation to original treatment goals. B. Recording the decline in anxiety as reported by the client regarding the present problem. C. Assessing the client's ability to discuss painful difficulties more openly than in initial sessions. D. Recording frequency of crisis call and the client's expressed need for emergency sessions. - ANSWER-Key (A) is the correct Answer. The client functioning in relation to the original goals is a valid measurement of progress. Therefore, Key (A) is the correct Answer. Key (B),would mean the client was being treated for anxiety, which is not indicated in the question stem. The same is true for Key (C). There is no evidence that the client has difficulty discussing painful issues. In addition, Key (D) is not indicate, because there is no evidence of crisis call or an expressed need for emergency sessions. A social worker would be most concerned if a client began to exhibit sign of school phobia when she was (blank) years old. A. 5 B. 7. C. 10 D. 13 - ANSWER-The correct answer is Key (D). This question asks you to identify at what age school phobia (an acute and irrational fear of going to school) is most serious. According to Rosenhan and Seligman (198)4), when school phobia occurs during adolescence, it is often an early sign of depression or more severe disorder. Kohlberg's theory of moral development views it as being: A. The result of parental expectations. B. Biologically innate and universal. C. The result of school and church teachings. D. Promoted by peer interactions. - ANSWER-Answer (D) is the correct answer. Rationale: Kohlberg was concerns with how children think about moral issues and emphasized the role of interactions with the environment in mora development. According to Kohlberg, although children may learn values and moral rules from adults, peers help each other judge and interpret what they are learning at their own level of cognitive development . A social worker is providing disaster relief services to families following extensive loss of lives and property due to flooding in their area. What is the MOST important thing for the social worker to hep the families understand ? A. That a crisis will continue indefinably without therapeutic intervention. B. The persons involved in a crisis will try to achieve a degree of equilibrium. C. That resolution of feelings related to this crisis will prevent recurrence of disequilibrium. D. That they will be unable to return to the pre-crisis level of functioning. - ANSWER-Key (B) is correct. Crisis tend to be self-limiting, thus making option (A) Incorrect. Resolution of feelings related to a current crisis will help restore a sense of equilibrium and may provide skills for resolution of future crisis, but it will not prevent disequilibrium from occurring. Option (C) is incorrect. With approprite intervention, people can return to pre-level of functioning or perhaps achieve a higher level of functioning. (D) is incorrect. According to the crisis theory, those involved in a crisis will try various methods to achieve a sense of equilibrium, since previous coping measures may not be helpful. Therefore, Option (B) is the best option. A baby has been living with a foster care family since shortly after she was born. She is adopted by a different family at the age of 11 months. After moving to her new home, the baby is MOST likely to exhibit which of the following? A. Few or no negative consequences. B. A failure to bond with the adoptive parents. C. Long-term emotional and behavioral problems that may be quite severe. D. A moderate reaction involving feeding, sleeping problems, and excessive clinging. - ANSWER-Answer key (D) is the correct Answer. Rationale: Studies examining the long term-effects of early parent-child separation have looked at children, who are adopted during early childhood and are, therefore sperate from the initial primary caregivers. While children seperated prior to 3 months of age show or no negative consequences. Children 9 months or older at time of separation exhibit moderate to extreme reactions including feeding and sleep problems, social withdrawal, increased "Stranger Anxiety". and either physical rejection of the new mother or excessive clinging to her. A school age child is removed from his parents home due to chronic physical abuse. He is placed in foster care. The Child's FIRST reaction to this MOST likely to be which of the following? A. Distrust and fear of more abuse. B. Quick attachment to the foster parents. C. Relief and sense of safety. D. Aggression. - ANSWER-Answer (A) is the correct answer. Rationale: Among the psychological and behavioral consequences of abuse for a child are pathological object relations, a lack of trust, and fear of being approached by adults. In addition, children who are chronically maltreated may come to see abuse as inevitable, and themselves as "Victims", and may blame themselves for the Abuse. Therefore, the correct answer to this questions is KEY (A). While Conditioned Response (CR) is the learned response of a conditioned stimulus, what is it that is called ACQUISTION? A. A negative conditioned stimulus is paired with a pleasant stimulus that elicit a response that is incompatible with the unwanted conditioned response. B. Learning to make distinction among similar stimuli. C. The reoccurrence of the previously extinguished conditioned response following a rest period. D. The organism learns the associated between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response. - ANSWER-Key (D) is the correct answer choice for this question. Acquisition is the period during which the organism learns the associated between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response. In other words, Acquisition refers to an early stage of the learning process during which time a response is first established. A child living in the United States is exposed to both English, and a second language between the age of six month, and 3 years, and a result, becomes fluent in both languages. If the child has not been exposed to the second language until after the age of 4 or 5, she would have had more trouble acquiring the second language. This provides evidence for. A. The concept of critical periods. B. The concept of sensitive periods. C. The theory of informational processing. D. The notion of imprinting - ANSWER-The correct answer choice is (B). Although, some authors use the terms "critical periods" and "sensitive periods" interchangeably. However, they actually mean two different things. A critical periods refers to a time when, if certain developmental event dont happen, later aspect of developmental will not occur. A sensitive periods refers to an optimal period rater than a necessary period. The situation described in this question suggest there is a sensitive period for dual language learning. To understand what influences their clients development and behavior, social workers often use a multidimensional framework that includes there main dimension. Which dimension is concerned with social regulation, and early attachments? A. Social B. Psychological C. Personality D. Biophysical - ANSWER-Key (B) is the correct answer. Rationale: The multidimensional framework used by most social workers emphasizes the biophysical, psychological, and social dimensions. The Psychological dimension is concerns with psychological functions that influence a person's ability to satisfy his/her needs over the lifespan. It consist of early emotional bonding, basis temperament, cognitive development, and informational processing. communication, personality identity, and self - concept, emotions, attitudes, social regulation, and moral development, and incorporates both psychological strengths (protective factors), and psychological hazards (risk). Therefore, the correct answer is choice (B) A proponent of system theory would say which of the following about the effects on a family of contact with the environment? A. The family affects the environment more then the environment affects the family. B. It has a positive effect. C. It has a negative effect. D. It will have no effect if the family has healthy boundaries. - ANSWER-The Correct Answer choice is (B). Rationale: Think systems theory. According to the system theory, a system with continuous information flow to and from the outside (environment) is an "open system". While a system whose boundaries are not easily crossed is a "closed system". Therefore, an "open family system" has permeable boundaries that permit a high degree of interaction with, and accessibility to it outside environment. While "closed family" has impermeable boundaries that permit little interaction with the outside environment. By failing to interaction sufficiently with the outside environment . A closed system lacks feedback corrective mechanism, becomes isolates, and resist change. In contrast, an open family system, by welcoming and initiating interaction with the outside environment, is more adaptable and accessible to change. As result of exchanges beyond it boundaries, an open family system is more able to deal with stress and change and to make necessary and enabling adaption....However, no family system is fully closed nor open, as a totally open system would have no boundaries, and therefore, would cease to exist as a separate entity, and a totally closed system would have no exchanges at all with its outside environment and would die. A number of relapse prevention model have been proposed for alcoholism, cigarettes' smoking, and other addictive disorders. According to the model developed by Marlatta and his colleagues, what is the MOST effective way to increase the likelihood of recovery after the relapse? A. Continue to promote complete abstinence. B. Emphasize the negative consequences of future "acting out". C. Shifts attention from internal and external antecedents. D. Clarifying underlying issues. - ANSWER-Answer choice key (C) is correct. Rationale: The relapse prevention model proposed by Marlatt and associates is a CBT model that emphasizes the role of cognitions (especially attributions) and the situational factors that precedes relapse. Marlatt "abstinence violation effect (AVE) model considers recovery after relapse to be related to attributions about the cause of the relapse. Successful recovery from relapse is more likely when the person blames it on external, stable, and global factors. Note that the research has found the most common precipitant of relapse among people with alcohol and other types of substances is experience anxiety, frustration, depression, or other negative emotional state. A client who is a member of a minority group expresses negative feeling about her own culture, and positive feeling towards the dominant (Anglo) culture. From the prespective of Atkinson, Morten, and Sue (1979). Minority Identity Model, this client is which stage? A. Conformity B. Dissonance C. Immersion D. Denial - ANSWER-Answer Choice (A) is correct. The minority identity model distinguishes between 5 stages a. Conformity b. dissonance c. resistance and immersion. d. introspection; and synergistic articulation e. awareness. The conformity stage is characterized by a preference for the dominant culture over one's own culture. Therefore, the correct answer is conformity. All of the following assumptions are consistent with a strength- based approach, EXCEPT: A. Negative experience are opportunities to grow. B. Every environment, no matter how harsh, has resources to offer a client. C. Treatment should focus on empowering a client to overcome their deficiencies. D. Focusing on pathology can undermine a client's ability to achieve their full potential. - ANSWER-The correct answer is key (C). In this question you need to identity the untrue statement. Therefore, B is not consistent with a strength based prespective. While empowerment is a key part of this approach, the focus of assessment and intervention is not the client's deficiencies but rather on their strengths and abilities. The strength prespective encourages social workers to attend closely to client strengths during assessment and intervention and , thereby helps to offset the focus on problems. Deficiencies , and pathology that characterizes many other practice frameworks. A "strength" can be seen as anything sufficient and positive that a client is doing, can do. Key Assumptions underlying a strength-based approach includes - ANSWER-(1). It is easier to help a client achieve positive, enduring change by building on their strengths than by trying to eliminate their problems or deficiencies. (2) Every person, family group, and community has strengths. As a social worker, you should help a client identify, use , and increase the strengths and abilities they already have. (3) Although negative and traumatic experiences can result in deficits that hinders a client, they can also be sources of challenge and opportunity (4) You cannot know the full extent of a client's potential to grow and change and you should take their goals and desires seriously. For example, you should hold high expectations for the client. (5) You can best help a client by collaborating with them. (6) Every environment offers resources, you should help the client to identify and access the resources in her environment. A client who experienced a maniac episode is released from the hospital and begins seeing a social for outpatient individual psychotherapy. The client is taking medication and learning to cope with how the medication makes her feel. She hopes to get her life back on track. If the social worker adopted a psychoanalytic prespective, he would suspect that which of the following underlies the client's mania? A. Primitive factors of aggression. B. A defense against underlying feeling of depression. C. The projection of unwanted impulses. D. An unresolved conflict in the anal stage of development. - ANSWER-Answer Choice (B) is correct. From a psychoanalytic prespective, mania is a defense against suppressed depression. Problem drug use among adolescents is MOST linked with. A. Peer Pressure. B. Lack of information/education. C. Alienation. D. Early experiment with drugs - ANSWER-Answer choice (C) is correct. Based on longitudinal study, J Shedler and J. Block (1990), concluded that problem drug users exhibit a coherent syndrome, often as early as age 7, this is characterized by alienation, impulsivity, and subjective distress, and these symptoms clearly precede the onset of drug use. Therefore, the correct answer for this questions is (C). An attorney phones a social and request a copy of one of her client's records. What should the social worker do FIRST? A. Refuse to release the records. B. Release the records. C. Have the client sign a release. D. Find out what information the attorney is seekin