ASWB Masters Exam

A clinical supervisor in a community mental health center learns that the agency has double-billed Medicare as well as private insurers. The supervisor is deeply upset, but is unsure as to whether it is merely a billing error or deliberate fraud. The best strategy is to a) inform the executive director of the problem. b)organize a group of workers and confront the director and the board. c) notify the appropriate law enforcement agency and suggest an investigation. d) contact the insurers and indicate that the agency is billing inaccurately. - Answer- a The most important consideration in choosing a goal with a client is a)what the agency wants. b) what the client wants. c) what the worker wants. d) what the client's parent wants. - Answer- b The most critical activity for a hospital social worker while planning post hospital care for a depressed married woman, prior to release from an inpatient psychiatric unit, is to a) consult with the patient's spouse to ensure that the patient's follow-up care is understood, and that there is a supportive family available to her. b) arrange continuing psychiatric follow-up. c) refer the client for case management. d) develop a contract with the client. - Answer- a A medical social worker interviews a young married woman, J., who was brought into the emergency room the night before with head injuries, a broken jaw, and upper-body contusions and abrasions. She will remain in the hospital several more days for tests. J. explains that she fell asleep at the wheel and crashed. Her husband is present throughout the interview and seems determined to remain. He nods and encourages her as she tells the story. J. seems intimidated by her husband's presence. The social worker fears that J. is not being truthful and that the injuries might have resulted from domestic abuse. The most prudent course of action is to a)continue to interview and record only the facts that J. is prepared to reveal. b) ask the husband to leave the room to permit a confidential discussion. c) gracefully terminate the interview and return when the husband is not present. d) file a domestic violence report with the police department. - Answer- c Jim has a history of child molestation. He joins an outpatient sex offender group as a condition of p