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SOCIAL WORK COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM 2025 BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM
WITH ANSWERS.
1. A foster child with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) has been
referred to an agency evaluation and intervention. The FIRST
STEP would be to: - correct answer -Begin to play with the
child to initiate the assessment process
2. During an intake interview, a client tells a social worker that her
previous social worker had obtained prescription valium for her
whenever she felt she needed it, and she wants to know if this
social worker can assist her the same way. When questioned
further the client refused to divulge the identity of the prior
social worker. The MOST appropriate response would be to -
correct answer -describe how to file an ethics complaint and
urge her to do so.
3. A social worker in a drug treatment program interviews a client
who is angry, belligerent, and apparently under the influence.
During the process of telling him that he needs to be tested
before he can formally be seen, the client voices a threat of
harm against staff at the drug testing center ("i'll get a knife and
stab those people if they report me positive again.") and then
bolts out the door. The proper response would be to - correct
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answer -call both the lab and the police and report the threat to
each
4. A newly divorced client discloses that she meets weekly with
three other divorced women to give eachother support and just
have a little fun. This type of group would be called a - correct
answer -natural group
5. A social worker is seeing a four year old child for issues of grief
and loss related to the recent death of a grandmother. The
grandmother provided daily after school care for the child until
her sudden and unexpected demise. The parents note that
they have repeatedly explained that the grandmother had died
and would not be returning, but the child remains distressed
and continues asking for her grandmother. At times she asks if
she did something to make grandmother go away because she
didn't ming the last time she was with her grandma. The child is
displaying signs of - correct answer -magical thinking is the
correct answer (it relates to egocentrisim commonly in children
this age of development- everything is about me, everything
happens because of me).
6. Separation anxiety resolves by age 6-8months
SOCIAL WORK COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM 2025 BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM
WITH ANSWERS.
1. A foster child with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) has been
referred to an agency evaluation and intervention. The FIRST
STEP would be to: - correct answer -Begin to play with the
child to initiate the assessment process
2. During an intake interview, a client tells a social worker that her
previous social worker had obtained prescription valium for her
whenever she felt she needed it, and she wants to know if this
social worker can assist her the same way. When questioned
further the client refused to divulge the identity of the prior
social worker. The MOST appropriate response would be to -
correct answer -describe how to file an ethics complaint and
urge her to do so.
3. A social worker in a drug treatment program interviews a client
who is angry, belligerent, and apparently under the influence.
During the process of telling him that he needs to be tested
before he can formally be seen, the client voices a threat of
harm against staff at the drug testing center ("i'll get a knife and
stab those people if they report me positive again.") and then
bolts out the door. The proper response would be to - correct
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answer -call both the lab and the police and report the threat to
each
4. A newly divorced client discloses that she meets weekly with
three other divorced women to give eachother support and just
have a little fun. This type of group would be called a - correct
answer -natural group
5. A social worker is seeing a four year old child for issues of grief
and loss related to the recent death of a grandmother. The
grandmother provided daily after school care for the child until
her sudden and unexpected demise. The parents note that
they have repeatedly explained that the grandmother had died
and would not be returning, but the child remains distressed
and continues asking for her grandmother. At times she asks if
she did something to make grandmother go away because she
didn't ming the last time she was with her grandma. The child is
displaying signs of - correct answer -magical thinking is the
correct answer (it relates to egocentrisim commonly in children
this age of development- everything is about me, everything
happens because of me).
6. Separation anxiety resolves by age 6-8months
