ASWB EXAM: PSYCHOTHERAPY,
CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS, AND CASE
MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Problem-solving Process - ANSWER Consists of engaging, assessing, planning, intervening, evaluating,
and terminating
primary prevention - ANSWER Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
Eg. Influenza immunization, education, screenings for general public, regular exercise/nutrition,
counseling
Secondary Prevention - ANSWER Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot
completely prevent.
Eg. Medication monitoring, take low-dose aspirin, modifying work assignments, screenings for those
who have risk factors
Tertiary Prevention - ANSWER actions taken to contain damage once a disease or disability has
progressed beyond its early stages. Goal is to prevent further deterioration and maximize quality of life
Eg. Support groups, reducing strenuous activity, rehab, pain management
Partialization - ANSWER -breaking problems down into manageable subgoals (problem-solving theory)
-happens during the planning and intervention stages
Congruence - ANSWER Matching awareness and experience with communication. Essential for vitality of
a relationship.
Positive Regard (Rogers) - ANSWER View clients as worthy, accepting and supporting them without
judgment. Set aside biases
Kohut's Self-Psychology Model - ANSWER Lack of response from caregivers result in poor self-cohesion.
, Essential needs of children include:
-mirroring: confirms children's sense of greatness and perfection
-idealizing of others: children take in strength and calmness
-twinship or alter-ego: sense of being human and like others
Symbiotic phase (1 to 5 months) - ANSWER fusion of mother and child, child is extension of parenting
figure, fufillment
The Gottman Method - ANSWER Couples therapy that focuses on assessing the relationship between
couples and attempts to increase affection, remove barriers to communication, and create empathy and
understanding in better approaches to conflict.
Conditions of the therapeutic process - ANSWER -trust
-listening on both sides
-joint exploration
-accepting what is said in a nonjudgmental manner
Social Worker roles - ANSWER -advocate: champion the rights of others, speak on their behalf
-Broker: identifying, locating, and linking to most appropriate service and negotiations the terms of
delivery
-change agent: works with others (coordinates) to achieve planned change at multiple levels
-counselor: improve social functioning
-mediator: intervene in disputes by taking a neutral stance
Congruence - ANSWER matching of experience and awareness with communication. The client needs to
be able to express true feelings. Essential for vitality of a relationship.
Universalization - ANSWER the generalization or normalization of behavior during an interview
clarification - ANSWER reformulate problem in a client's words to make sure that you are on the same
wavelength during an interview
CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS, AND CASE
MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Problem-solving Process - ANSWER Consists of engaging, assessing, planning, intervening, evaluating,
and terminating
primary prevention - ANSWER Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
Eg. Influenza immunization, education, screenings for general public, regular exercise/nutrition,
counseling
Secondary Prevention - ANSWER Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot
completely prevent.
Eg. Medication monitoring, take low-dose aspirin, modifying work assignments, screenings for those
who have risk factors
Tertiary Prevention - ANSWER actions taken to contain damage once a disease or disability has
progressed beyond its early stages. Goal is to prevent further deterioration and maximize quality of life
Eg. Support groups, reducing strenuous activity, rehab, pain management
Partialization - ANSWER -breaking problems down into manageable subgoals (problem-solving theory)
-happens during the planning and intervention stages
Congruence - ANSWER Matching awareness and experience with communication. Essential for vitality of
a relationship.
Positive Regard (Rogers) - ANSWER View clients as worthy, accepting and supporting them without
judgment. Set aside biases
Kohut's Self-Psychology Model - ANSWER Lack of response from caregivers result in poor self-cohesion.
, Essential needs of children include:
-mirroring: confirms children's sense of greatness and perfection
-idealizing of others: children take in strength and calmness
-twinship or alter-ego: sense of being human and like others
Symbiotic phase (1 to 5 months) - ANSWER fusion of mother and child, child is extension of parenting
figure, fufillment
The Gottman Method - ANSWER Couples therapy that focuses on assessing the relationship between
couples and attempts to increase affection, remove barriers to communication, and create empathy and
understanding in better approaches to conflict.
Conditions of the therapeutic process - ANSWER -trust
-listening on both sides
-joint exploration
-accepting what is said in a nonjudgmental manner
Social Worker roles - ANSWER -advocate: champion the rights of others, speak on their behalf
-Broker: identifying, locating, and linking to most appropriate service and negotiations the terms of
delivery
-change agent: works with others (coordinates) to achieve planned change at multiple levels
-counselor: improve social functioning
-mediator: intervene in disputes by taking a neutral stance
Congruence - ANSWER matching of experience and awareness with communication. The client needs to
be able to express true feelings. Essential for vitality of a relationship.
Universalization - ANSWER the generalization or normalization of behavior during an interview
clarification - ANSWER reformulate problem in a client's words to make sure that you are on the same
wavelength during an interview
