From ASWB Practice Exam - Review of
Questions
A purchaser suddenly stopped coming to periods after 6 weeks. He calls the social worker and
asks for a copy of his report about a month later. There is not anything in the report that is
harmful to the patron, but the social worker refuses to present it to him. In this example, the
social worker's actions are: - ANS-Unethical due to the fact the social worker has a obligation to
offer the consumer a duplicate of his report in this case
Social employees have to offer clients with reasonable get entry to to their information. Social
people who are worried that customers' get entry to to their facts may want to purpose serious
false impression or damage to a patron have to provide help in interpreting the information and
session with a patron regarding the records. Social employees should limit clients' access to
their information, or quantities in their statistics, best in excellent occasions while there is
compelling proof that such get admission to might cause extreme harm to a client.
In this example vignette, there has been not a chance of harm because of the release, so the
social employee should have supplied get entry to; but, facts may be withheld in some
instances, as described, so long as the request and the cause for the denial is documented
within the consumer's document.
A customer comes in to see a social worker due to the fact she is having multiple troubles on
her process. During the preliminary session, she tells the social worker that she "can't look
forward to recommendation on how to fix the troubles." In this situation, the social worker need
to: - ANS--Clarify what's going to manifest in treatment and the obligations of both the client and
social employee with regard to exchange
***Problems can stand up whilst a customer isn't always clean about a social employee's role.
-Initial explanation need to be made during engagement and ought to be discussed throughout
the therapeutic technique if the position of a social worker changes.
-The social worker in this example vignette ought to address this situation immediately and have
to now not ignore the remark.
-In addition, the social worker must not make this a therapeutic trouble and question the patron
similarly approximately it because it may honestly result from a lack of understanding at the
client's element.***
,A purchaser has been prescribed Nardil to deal with her depression. As a end result of taking
this medicine, the client will in all likelihood be required to: - ANS--Limit positive foods high in
tyramine
-Nardil is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), and there are nutritional restrictions of
ingredients that comprise excessive stages of tyramine (typically food that has been elderly),
inclusive of cheeses, cured meats, and yeast extract spreads.
A purchaser has simply been identified with Stage four cancer and is referred to a pain control
group to limit the discomfort associated with her illness. The provision of this provider is BEST
represented as which of the following? - ANS-Tertiary prevention
Tertiary prevention makes a speciality of dealing with complex, lengthy-term illnesses, injuries,
or illnesses. The aim is to prevent in addition deterioration and maximize first-rate of life due to
the fact the sickness is now established. Other types of prevention strategies are aimed toward
preventing the development of a disease and/or slowing its progression or minimizing its
long-term affects. Hospice is associated with care as a result of a lifestyles-limiting
contamination. The case vignette does no longer imply that the most cancers is terminal, so the
control of the ache may be associated with remedy this is occurring.
A consumer has made vast progress in remedy and has completed all established dreams.
When the social worker speaks to the customer about discharge, the patron states that he does
now not need to forestall seeing the social employee because he is concerned approximately
his destiny needs. As there are not any extra remedy goals, the social worker is of the same
opinion to see the client seasoned bono for the following 6 months or till the consumer feels
cozy. The social worker's moves are: - ANS-Not ethical when you consider that there are not
any new remedy goals
The NASW Code of Ethics states that it's far unethical to keep to treat clients whilst services are
not wanted. The waiving of fee related for this treatment is not applicable. Continuing to see the
patron and not using a remedy desires isn't inside the client's quality hobby. The social
employee have to have addressed the client's apprehension and anxiety about termination.
Central to the termination system is working with the client to count on destiny needs and the
way to deal with them. Continuing to look him "simply in case" does not assist the consumer to
be independent and to practice, on his very own, coping competencies that he has attained for
the duration of remedy.
A customer in a group facilitated through a social worker has a pink face and looks visibly
disenchanted when he talks approximately his cutting-edge relationship with his circle of
relatives. When the social employee states that he can see how the purchaser is not glad
approximately his modern state of affairs primarily based upon his physical symptoms, the
purchaser says, "Everything is satisfactory." The customer is MOST in all likelihood displaying: -
ANS-Lack of congruence in conversation
Congruence is the matching of recognition and enjoy with conversation. It is crucial that a patron
is capable of express himself/herself and that this communication is reflective of his or her
,feelings. Congruence is crucial for the power of a dating and to facilitate proper helping as a part
of the problem-fixing procedure.
The purchaser in the case vignette is announcing that the relationship is "nice," however his
physical signs and symptoms really indicate that it isn't always. This is an instance of a loss of
congruence in his communique.
A purchaser in remedy with a social worker has made significant development. She loses her
task and now not has insurance as a way to pay for offerings. Both the social employee and the
consumer assume that persisted treatment could be useful. In order to assist the client in an
moral manner, the social employee have to: - ANS-Arrange to see the consumer on a sliding
scale or pro bono till she is reemployed
Social employees can best bill coverage agencies for offerings executed when the client is
blanketed. It could be unethical to fraudulently bill for offerings that befell throughout the length
while she did now not have coverage. Since these claims will no longer be paid, the purchaser
is being misled into wondering that she will now not be liable for the value of treatment. Thus,
the primary response desire is absolutely unethical.
Social employees are handiest allowed to barter underneath VERY constrained situations. The
content in this case vignette does now not justify the usage of bartering or replacing offerings for
remedy.
Terminating services also does not assist the purchaser. The reaction choice that assists "the
patron in an ethical way" is the one that arranges to peer the purchaser for a sliding scale or pro
bono.
A client is being discharged from an inpatient hospitalization. Upon admission, he slept most of
the time, said extreme depression, and felt hopeless. Several days later, whilst hospitalized, he
seemed jittery and agitated. His speech changed into rambling and he wandered across the
unit, speaking to others for hours. He additionally had trouble dozing. This customer is MOST
probably going to be prescribed which of the following medications upon discharge? -
ANS-Lithium
The client's conduct is steady with Bipolar Disorder. He was depressed upon admission and
then appeared to be manic for the duration of the hospitalization. Only Lithium, out of those
medicines listed, is a mood stabilizer. Elavil is an antidepressant, Ativan is an antianxiety agent,
and Haldol is an antipsychotic medicinal drug.
A purchaser is extraordinarily dissatisfied due to the fact her 14-12 months-vintage son isn't
always helping around the house, independently doing his homework, or arriving to highschool
on time. The son states that his mom watches over him too intently and does not supply him
needed privacy. This trouble is quality understood as: - ANS-Role discomplementarity happens
whilst role expectations aren't being met and sports related to those expectancies are not
executed in an expected way. In this case vignette, the purchaser's belief about what her son
have to be doing isn't always regular along with his behavior. In addition, the son is
, disenchanted with the success of the function expectancies that he has for his mom. This case
vignette solely entails function troubles and not communique, area, or developmental troubles.
A consumer reviews that he become simply recognized with Hodgkin's ailment. This most
cancers is associated with which of the main body structures? - ANS--Lymphatic
Hodgkin's disease is a sort of lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic machine. The first signal of
Hodgkin's disorder is regularly an enlarged lymph node. The ailment can spread to close by
lymph nodes. Later, it can spread to the lungs, liver, or bone marrow. The exact cause is
unknown.
A patron reports that she is below the surveillance of the police and that they have got been
following her for days, as well as listening in on her telephone conversations. There is not any
other evidence to support this belief. The consumer's report is MOST likely as a consequence of
a: - ANS-Delusion
A fable is a fake or faulty belief that typically includes a misinterpretation of perceptions or
studies. A delusion is a belief this is held regardless of proof to the opposite. A hallucination
entails the senses. An auditory hallucination—listening to some thing that isn't stated—is the
maximum commonplace kind. In this case vignette, the patron had a fake, constant notion no
matter a loss of assisting proof, however there has been no indication that it resulted from
simply seeing or hearing something that might assist those ideals.
A patron reviews to a social employee that he is having troubles together with his spouse
because he feels that she does now not care about him. The social employee discovers that this
belief stems from her perceived distraction when the husband is speaking. The social employee
demanding situations this thought and helps him update it with an alternative one that she "does
care, but simply has a number of different needs for her attention." The method used by the
social worker is: - ANS-Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive behavioral remedy targets to exchange patterns of wondering or conduct that are
responsible for clients' difficulties. In this technique, the social employee assists the patron to
alternate attitudes and his or her conduct with the aid of focusing at the thoughts, pics, ideals,
and attitudes which are held (cognitive procedures) and changing distorted wondering patterns
with healthful ones (cognitive restructuring).
A purchaser reports to a social employee that she is taking into consideration finishing her
marriage and would like to get guidance from her priest about her preference. In response to the
client's request, the social employee have to FIRST: - ANS-Determine what guide is needed to
prepare the patron for this assembly together with her priest
Cultural competence involves working in conjunction with natural, informal support, in addition to
supporting networks (i.E., neighborhoods, church buildings, religious leaders, healers). The
social worker ought to help prepare the client for the meeting and provide other help as needed.
The social worker should not be evaluating the consumer's motives for looking for steering from
her priest. In addition, the biopsychosocial-religious-cultural functioning of the client is the point
of interest of treatment; the customer should not experience that the social employee isn't
always involved or able to deal with and recall her spiritual/non secular issues.
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A purchaser suddenly stopped coming to periods after 6 weeks. He calls the social worker and
asks for a copy of his report about a month later. There is not anything in the report that is
harmful to the patron, but the social worker refuses to present it to him. In this example, the
social worker's actions are: - ANS-Unethical due to the fact the social worker has a obligation to
offer the consumer a duplicate of his report in this case
Social employees have to offer clients with reasonable get entry to to their information. Social
people who are worried that customers' get entry to to their facts may want to purpose serious
false impression or damage to a patron have to provide help in interpreting the information and
session with a patron regarding the records. Social employees should limit clients' access to
their information, or quantities in their statistics, best in excellent occasions while there is
compelling proof that such get admission to might cause extreme harm to a client.
In this example vignette, there has been not a chance of harm because of the release, so the
social employee should have supplied get entry to; but, facts may be withheld in some
instances, as described, so long as the request and the cause for the denial is documented
within the consumer's document.
A customer comes in to see a social worker due to the fact she is having multiple troubles on
her process. During the preliminary session, she tells the social worker that she "can't look
forward to recommendation on how to fix the troubles." In this situation, the social worker need
to: - ANS--Clarify what's going to manifest in treatment and the obligations of both the client and
social employee with regard to exchange
***Problems can stand up whilst a customer isn't always clean about a social employee's role.
-Initial explanation need to be made during engagement and ought to be discussed throughout
the therapeutic technique if the position of a social worker changes.
-The social worker in this example vignette ought to address this situation immediately and have
to now not ignore the remark.
-In addition, the social worker must not make this a therapeutic trouble and question the patron
similarly approximately it because it may honestly result from a lack of understanding at the
client's element.***
,A purchaser has been prescribed Nardil to deal with her depression. As a end result of taking
this medicine, the client will in all likelihood be required to: - ANS--Limit positive foods high in
tyramine
-Nardil is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), and there are nutritional restrictions of
ingredients that comprise excessive stages of tyramine (typically food that has been elderly),
inclusive of cheeses, cured meats, and yeast extract spreads.
A purchaser has simply been identified with Stage four cancer and is referred to a pain control
group to limit the discomfort associated with her illness. The provision of this provider is BEST
represented as which of the following? - ANS-Tertiary prevention
Tertiary prevention makes a speciality of dealing with complex, lengthy-term illnesses, injuries,
or illnesses. The aim is to prevent in addition deterioration and maximize first-rate of life due to
the fact the sickness is now established. Other types of prevention strategies are aimed toward
preventing the development of a disease and/or slowing its progression or minimizing its
long-term affects. Hospice is associated with care as a result of a lifestyles-limiting
contamination. The case vignette does no longer imply that the most cancers is terminal, so the
control of the ache may be associated with remedy this is occurring.
A consumer has made vast progress in remedy and has completed all established dreams.
When the social worker speaks to the customer about discharge, the patron states that he does
now not need to forestall seeing the social employee because he is concerned approximately
his destiny needs. As there are not any extra remedy goals, the social worker is of the same
opinion to see the client seasoned bono for the following 6 months or till the consumer feels
cozy. The social worker's moves are: - ANS-Not ethical when you consider that there are not
any new remedy goals
The NASW Code of Ethics states that it's far unethical to keep to treat clients whilst services are
not wanted. The waiving of fee related for this treatment is not applicable. Continuing to see the
patron and not using a remedy desires isn't inside the client's quality hobby. The social
employee have to have addressed the client's apprehension and anxiety about termination.
Central to the termination system is working with the client to count on destiny needs and the
way to deal with them. Continuing to look him "simply in case" does not assist the consumer to
be independent and to practice, on his very own, coping competencies that he has attained for
the duration of remedy.
A customer in a group facilitated through a social worker has a pink face and looks visibly
disenchanted when he talks approximately his cutting-edge relationship with his circle of
relatives. When the social employee states that he can see how the purchaser is not glad
approximately his modern state of affairs primarily based upon his physical symptoms, the
purchaser says, "Everything is satisfactory." The customer is MOST in all likelihood displaying: -
ANS-Lack of congruence in conversation
Congruence is the matching of recognition and enjoy with conversation. It is crucial that a patron
is capable of express himself/herself and that this communication is reflective of his or her
,feelings. Congruence is crucial for the power of a dating and to facilitate proper helping as a part
of the problem-fixing procedure.
The purchaser in the case vignette is announcing that the relationship is "nice," however his
physical signs and symptoms really indicate that it isn't always. This is an instance of a loss of
congruence in his communique.
A purchaser in remedy with a social worker has made significant development. She loses her
task and now not has insurance as a way to pay for offerings. Both the social employee and the
consumer assume that persisted treatment could be useful. In order to assist the client in an
moral manner, the social employee have to: - ANS-Arrange to see the consumer on a sliding
scale or pro bono till she is reemployed
Social employees can best bill coverage agencies for offerings executed when the client is
blanketed. It could be unethical to fraudulently bill for offerings that befell throughout the length
while she did now not have coverage. Since these claims will no longer be paid, the purchaser
is being misled into wondering that she will now not be liable for the value of treatment. Thus,
the primary response desire is absolutely unethical.
Social employees are handiest allowed to barter underneath VERY constrained situations. The
content in this case vignette does now not justify the usage of bartering or replacing offerings for
remedy.
Terminating services also does not assist the purchaser. The reaction choice that assists "the
patron in an ethical way" is the one that arranges to peer the purchaser for a sliding scale or pro
bono.
A client is being discharged from an inpatient hospitalization. Upon admission, he slept most of
the time, said extreme depression, and felt hopeless. Several days later, whilst hospitalized, he
seemed jittery and agitated. His speech changed into rambling and he wandered across the
unit, speaking to others for hours. He additionally had trouble dozing. This customer is MOST
probably going to be prescribed which of the following medications upon discharge? -
ANS-Lithium
The client's conduct is steady with Bipolar Disorder. He was depressed upon admission and
then appeared to be manic for the duration of the hospitalization. Only Lithium, out of those
medicines listed, is a mood stabilizer. Elavil is an antidepressant, Ativan is an antianxiety agent,
and Haldol is an antipsychotic medicinal drug.
A purchaser is extraordinarily dissatisfied due to the fact her 14-12 months-vintage son isn't
always helping around the house, independently doing his homework, or arriving to highschool
on time. The son states that his mom watches over him too intently and does not supply him
needed privacy. This trouble is quality understood as: - ANS-Role discomplementarity happens
whilst role expectations aren't being met and sports related to those expectancies are not
executed in an expected way. In this case vignette, the purchaser's belief about what her son
have to be doing isn't always regular along with his behavior. In addition, the son is
, disenchanted with the success of the function expectancies that he has for his mom. This case
vignette solely entails function troubles and not communique, area, or developmental troubles.
A consumer reviews that he become simply recognized with Hodgkin's ailment. This most
cancers is associated with which of the main body structures? - ANS--Lymphatic
Hodgkin's disease is a sort of lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic machine. The first signal of
Hodgkin's disorder is regularly an enlarged lymph node. The ailment can spread to close by
lymph nodes. Later, it can spread to the lungs, liver, or bone marrow. The exact cause is
unknown.
A patron reports that she is below the surveillance of the police and that they have got been
following her for days, as well as listening in on her telephone conversations. There is not any
other evidence to support this belief. The consumer's report is MOST likely as a consequence of
a: - ANS-Delusion
A fable is a fake or faulty belief that typically includes a misinterpretation of perceptions or
studies. A delusion is a belief this is held regardless of proof to the opposite. A hallucination
entails the senses. An auditory hallucination—listening to some thing that isn't stated—is the
maximum commonplace kind. In this case vignette, the patron had a fake, constant notion no
matter a loss of assisting proof, however there has been no indication that it resulted from
simply seeing or hearing something that might assist those ideals.
A patron reviews to a social employee that he is having troubles together with his spouse
because he feels that she does now not care about him. The social employee discovers that this
belief stems from her perceived distraction when the husband is speaking. The social employee
demanding situations this thought and helps him update it with an alternative one that she "does
care, but simply has a number of different needs for her attention." The method used by the
social worker is: - ANS-Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive behavioral remedy targets to exchange patterns of wondering or conduct that are
responsible for clients' difficulties. In this technique, the social employee assists the patron to
alternate attitudes and his or her conduct with the aid of focusing at the thoughts, pics, ideals,
and attitudes which are held (cognitive procedures) and changing distorted wondering patterns
with healthful ones (cognitive restructuring).
A purchaser reports to a social employee that she is taking into consideration finishing her
marriage and would like to get guidance from her priest about her preference. In response to the
client's request, the social employee have to FIRST: - ANS-Determine what guide is needed to
prepare the patron for this assembly together with her priest
Cultural competence involves working in conjunction with natural, informal support, in addition to
supporting networks (i.E., neighborhoods, church buildings, religious leaders, healers). The
social worker ought to help prepare the client for the meeting and provide other help as needed.
The social worker should not be evaluating the consumer's motives for looking for steering from
her priest. In addition, the biopsychosocial-religious-cultural functioning of the client is the point
of interest of treatment; the customer should not experience that the social employee isn't
always involved or able to deal with and recall her spiritual/non secular issues.
