Social Work Final Exam Study
Guide questions and answers
2025
Licensed clinical social workers are directly responsible for - answer
Assessing, diagnosing, and treating all forms of mental disorders
A "mental health team" was first formed at a St. Louis clinic in 1922,
though we see such teams continue in treatment facilities even today.
Such a team, like that first team nearly 100 years ago, typically consists of
people representing all but which of the following professions? - answer
General practitioner
Mental health is best defined as - answer A relative state of emotional
well-being where one is free from incapacitating conflicts and is
consistently able to make rational decisions and cope with environmental
stresses and internal pressures
Social workers trail only psychologists as the most common providers of
mental health services in the United States - answer False
In Wyatt v. Stickney (1971) and O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975), the
Supreme Court ruled - answer a. A client could not be hospitalized
against his/her will simply for having a mental illness and needing
treatment; a more specific set of guidelines had to be met
Diagnoses of which disorder among children increased 4,000% between
1984 and 2014, causing many to believe that it was perhaps simply
becoming a more popular diagnosis among practitioners, rather than
actually occurring more frequently? - answer . Bipolar disorder
___________ is a social process whereby human experience is culturally
defined as pathological and treatable as a medical condition. - answer
Medicalization
, What reformer heightened awareness of the mistreatment of people with
mental disorders in 1800s America, pushing for more humane approaches?
- answer Dorothea Dix
Donnie is preoccupied with food, has an irrational fear of being fat,
exercises excessively at times, and goes through cycles of consuming
huge amounts of food and subsequently ridding herself of it through self-
induced vomiting or laxative use. What diagnosis would she most likely be
given? - answer Bulimia nervosa
Approximately what proportion of people in the United States suffer from
a severe mental illness? - answer 1 in 17
Young drivers (age 16-20) are ____ times more likely to die in a car crash
when they have a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 or more. - answer 17
People who are codependent are likely to exhibit all but which of the
following behaviors? - answer Drinking to excess with their partner
simply because they do not want to feel left out or alone on a Saturday
night
The majority of time in most drug abuse/addiction treatment centers is
spent in what style of treatment, since it seems to be the most effective in
helping people stay abstinent from substance use for a longer period of
time? - answer Group therapy
Drug testing and educational programs are both examples of: - answer
Substance-use prevention techniques
The four major dimensions of life that support recovery, according to the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA),
are: - answer Health, home, purpose, community
Research has shown which of the following is most effective in helping
cigarette smokers to quit smoking, especially when co-occurring
depression is present? - answer Wellbutrin and chantrix
Guide questions and answers
2025
Licensed clinical social workers are directly responsible for - answer
Assessing, diagnosing, and treating all forms of mental disorders
A "mental health team" was first formed at a St. Louis clinic in 1922,
though we see such teams continue in treatment facilities even today.
Such a team, like that first team nearly 100 years ago, typically consists of
people representing all but which of the following professions? - answer
General practitioner
Mental health is best defined as - answer A relative state of emotional
well-being where one is free from incapacitating conflicts and is
consistently able to make rational decisions and cope with environmental
stresses and internal pressures
Social workers trail only psychologists as the most common providers of
mental health services in the United States - answer False
In Wyatt v. Stickney (1971) and O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975), the
Supreme Court ruled - answer a. A client could not be hospitalized
against his/her will simply for having a mental illness and needing
treatment; a more specific set of guidelines had to be met
Diagnoses of which disorder among children increased 4,000% between
1984 and 2014, causing many to believe that it was perhaps simply
becoming a more popular diagnosis among practitioners, rather than
actually occurring more frequently? - answer . Bipolar disorder
___________ is a social process whereby human experience is culturally
defined as pathological and treatable as a medical condition. - answer
Medicalization
, What reformer heightened awareness of the mistreatment of people with
mental disorders in 1800s America, pushing for more humane approaches?
- answer Dorothea Dix
Donnie is preoccupied with food, has an irrational fear of being fat,
exercises excessively at times, and goes through cycles of consuming
huge amounts of food and subsequently ridding herself of it through self-
induced vomiting or laxative use. What diagnosis would she most likely be
given? - answer Bulimia nervosa
Approximately what proportion of people in the United States suffer from
a severe mental illness? - answer 1 in 17
Young drivers (age 16-20) are ____ times more likely to die in a car crash
when they have a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 or more. - answer 17
People who are codependent are likely to exhibit all but which of the
following behaviors? - answer Drinking to excess with their partner
simply because they do not want to feel left out or alone on a Saturday
night
The majority of time in most drug abuse/addiction treatment centers is
spent in what style of treatment, since it seems to be the most effective in
helping people stay abstinent from substance use for a longer period of
time? - answer Group therapy
Drug testing and educational programs are both examples of: - answer
Substance-use prevention techniques
The four major dimensions of life that support recovery, according to the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA),
are: - answer Health, home, purpose, community
Research has shown which of the following is most effective in helping
cigarette smokers to quit smoking, especially when co-occurring
depression is present? - answer Wellbutrin and chantrix
