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LMSW Review Exam I: Direct & Indirect
Social Work Practice Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already
Graded
1. In determining the appropriateness of a client for a therapy group
the most important single factor is
A) Major events in the life history of the client.
B) Social relationships with the family.
C) Physical or intellectual strengths.
D) Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations, perception of
reality.
Ans: Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations,
perception of reality.
2. Willard, age 13, comes from a family well known in the community
for its members' involvement with drugs and alcohol. Willard's two
brothers and his mother, though employed in marginal jobs have
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serious drug and alcohol problems. His father died from cirrhosis of the
liver associated with massive alcohol abuse. Willard is in school, seems
well cared for, and has been doing well, but he has recently started to
cut classes. In planning a social work intervention with Willard, the
social worker will need to consider
A) How to help Willard's mother encourage him to continue to work
hard.
B) How to intervene with the entire family to help them manage their
substance problems.
C) That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming a
substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to avoid
following in the family path.
D) That an abuse report should be filed.
Ans: That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming
a substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to
avoid following in the family path.
3. During a first interview, a young married woman, who has recently
given birth to her first child, complains of loss of appetite and inability
to sleep. She seems somewhat disheveled and disorganized, displays a
mournful demeanor, and says she feels unmotivated and overworked.
The social worker's first activity would be to:
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LMSW Review Exam I: Direct & Indirect
Social Work Practice Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already
Graded
1. In determining the appropriateness of a client for a therapy group
the most important single factor is
A) Major events in the life history of the client.
B) Social relationships with the family.
C) Physical or intellectual strengths.
D) Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations, perception of
reality.
Ans: Attitudes toward him/herself, adaptive operations,
perception of reality.
2. Willard, age 13, comes from a family well known in the community
for its members' involvement with drugs and alcohol. Willard's two
brothers and his mother, though employed in marginal jobs have
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serious drug and alcohol problems. His father died from cirrhosis of the
liver associated with massive alcohol abuse. Willard is in school, seems
well cared for, and has been doing well, but he has recently started to
cut classes. In planning a social work intervention with Willard, the
social worker will need to consider
A) How to help Willard's mother encourage him to continue to work
hard.
B) How to intervene with the entire family to help them manage their
substance problems.
C) That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming a
substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to avoid
following in the family path.
D) That an abuse report should be filed.
Ans: That family substance abuse is a major factor in becoming
a substance abuser and that Willard will need special help to
avoid following in the family path.
3. During a first interview, a young married woman, who has recently
given birth to her first child, complains of loss of appetite and inability
to sleep. She seems somewhat disheveled and disorganized, displays a
mournful demeanor, and says she feels unmotivated and overworked.
The social worker's first activity would be to:
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