MSW Exam Terms Exam Questions and
Answers
What should a social worker do when receiving a subpoena? - Correct Answers -
Respond and claim privelege to confidentiality of the profession. A subpoena is not the
same as a court order, which cannot be refused.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Correct Answers -
A client's information can be kept from them - Correct Answers -If there is compelling
evidence it would cause harm
Covert discrimination - Correct Answers -Discrimination that is concealed or hidden.
Parallel process - Correct Answers -an overidentification with the supervisee
Enactment - Correct Answers -A technique in which social workers ask their clients to
recreate situations exactly as they remember them
Which theorist introduced the idea of operant conditioning? - Correct Answers -B.F.
Skinner
The Older Americans Act of 1965 - Correct Answers -Helped older Americans by
providing grants to states
A social worker has designed a study to measure the effectiveness of a community
support program for clients with a chronic mental illness. The social worker is
developing a process for ensuring informed consent but is concerned about the level of
competency which may vary from day today and some clients. What should the social
worker do? - Correct Answers -Discuss concerns when each client is most able to
understand
A 25-year-old male client has signed a release of information for an agency to receive a
psychological report from the local mental health center. Contained within the report or
references to previous treatment at other settings. It is within the principles of
confidentiality for the agency to: - Correct Answers -Contact the client and have him
execute a release for each setting
, Which medication is most likely to be used in treating bipolar disorder? - Correct
Answers -Depakote
In the psychosocial model what technique is central to the case work process? - Correct
Answers -Sustaining procedures
A defense mechanism in which is able to escape conflict of having undesirable
thoughts, feelings, or urges by projecting them onto another person or group. - Correct
Answers -Projection
A dense mechanism that seeks to make irrational behavior rational by explanation. -
Correct Answers -Rationalization
Participant modeling - Correct Answers -Demonstration with the expectation that the
behavior will be demonstrated by the participant
Paradoxical directive - Correct Answers -prescribes the problem, in a sense, so that the
client can grasp the behavior's significance and move toward goals with greater self-
awareness
Stages of cultural identity - Correct Answers -
With whom did conflict theories originate? - Correct Answers -Karl Marx
Radical feminism - Correct Answers -The idea that gender roles are completely socially
constructed and are used to give men more power than women.
Clarification technique - Correct Answers -Seeks to reformulate a problem in a client's
words.
Superasystem - Correct Answers -An entity that is served by a number of smaller,
component systems and produces output based on that relationship
Interobserver reliability - Correct Answers -Assesses the degree to which different raters
Or assessors give Consistent results about the same phenomenon. Also known as
interrater reliability.
Who developed the system of social work values And categorized them into four
groups: Societal, organizational an institutional, Professional, and human service
practice values? - Correct Answers -Charles Levy
Kohlberg stages of moral development - Correct Answers -preconventional,
conventional, postconventional
Physiological needs - Correct Answers -the most basic human needs to be satisfied-
water, food, shelter, and clothing
Answers
What should a social worker do when receiving a subpoena? - Correct Answers -
Respond and claim privelege to confidentiality of the profession. A subpoena is not the
same as a court order, which cannot be refused.
Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Correct Answers -
A client's information can be kept from them - Correct Answers -If there is compelling
evidence it would cause harm
Covert discrimination - Correct Answers -Discrimination that is concealed or hidden.
Parallel process - Correct Answers -an overidentification with the supervisee
Enactment - Correct Answers -A technique in which social workers ask their clients to
recreate situations exactly as they remember them
Which theorist introduced the idea of operant conditioning? - Correct Answers -B.F.
Skinner
The Older Americans Act of 1965 - Correct Answers -Helped older Americans by
providing grants to states
A social worker has designed a study to measure the effectiveness of a community
support program for clients with a chronic mental illness. The social worker is
developing a process for ensuring informed consent but is concerned about the level of
competency which may vary from day today and some clients. What should the social
worker do? - Correct Answers -Discuss concerns when each client is most able to
understand
A 25-year-old male client has signed a release of information for an agency to receive a
psychological report from the local mental health center. Contained within the report or
references to previous treatment at other settings. It is within the principles of
confidentiality for the agency to: - Correct Answers -Contact the client and have him
execute a release for each setting
, Which medication is most likely to be used in treating bipolar disorder? - Correct
Answers -Depakote
In the psychosocial model what technique is central to the case work process? - Correct
Answers -Sustaining procedures
A defense mechanism in which is able to escape conflict of having undesirable
thoughts, feelings, or urges by projecting them onto another person or group. - Correct
Answers -Projection
A dense mechanism that seeks to make irrational behavior rational by explanation. -
Correct Answers -Rationalization
Participant modeling - Correct Answers -Demonstration with the expectation that the
behavior will be demonstrated by the participant
Paradoxical directive - Correct Answers -prescribes the problem, in a sense, so that the
client can grasp the behavior's significance and move toward goals with greater self-
awareness
Stages of cultural identity - Correct Answers -
With whom did conflict theories originate? - Correct Answers -Karl Marx
Radical feminism - Correct Answers -The idea that gender roles are completely socially
constructed and are used to give men more power than women.
Clarification technique - Correct Answers -Seeks to reformulate a problem in a client's
words.
Superasystem - Correct Answers -An entity that is served by a number of smaller,
component systems and produces output based on that relationship
Interobserver reliability - Correct Answers -Assesses the degree to which different raters
Or assessors give Consistent results about the same phenomenon. Also known as
interrater reliability.
Who developed the system of social work values And categorized them into four
groups: Societal, organizational an institutional, Professional, and human service
practice values? - Correct Answers -Charles Levy
Kohlberg stages of moral development - Correct Answers -preconventional,
conventional, postconventional
Physiological needs - Correct Answers -the most basic human needs to be satisfied-
water, food, shelter, and clothing
