Practice ASWB Exam 2 - Interventions with Clients/Client Systems Study Guide.

Practice ASWB Exam 2 - Interventions with Clients/Client Systems Study Guide. 1. Question ID #48188: In a B is correct: A board of directors presides over a private agency and has private social agency, the ultimate responsibility for its programmatic and financial operations. board of directors: Select one: A. takes the place of ad- ministrative staff. B. is responsible for pro- grammatic and financial operations. C. has, at most, an advi- sory role. D. is the main bridge between direct service workers and administra- tors. 2. Question ID #47170: An adult client is unable to come to the social work- er's office to meet with her. She schedules an in-home interview at the client's residence. When she enters his apart- ment, she sees that the living room is cluttered In a public agency, by contrast, a board of directors has less power and takes on more of an advisory or administrative role.Answer D: This describes a role of supervisors in a social agency. The correct answer is: is responsible for programmatic and financial operations. B is correct: As in this case, the purpose of an in-home interview may be to engage and deliver services to a client when he can't or won't meet you in an oflce setting; other home visits are conducted to obtain a more accurate assessment by observing the client in his natural environment. Here, the condition of the client's apartment may tell you something about him that you might not have learned had he come to your oflce instead. The key to this question, however, is that no matter what you find, you must avoid showing disapproval or shock upon entering a client's home.Answer A: The problem with this answer is that your "genuine" reaction may be something like shock or and dirty and she detects disapproval.Answer D: This is not the best answer because it suggests an odor of spoiled food. She also sees porno- graphic magazines on the coffee table. What should the social worker that you would set aside the original purpose of your home visit. You wouldn't do this unless you found that the client was in danger. The correct answer is: Carefully avoid any sign of disapproval or shock. do? Select one: A. Share her reaction to this in a genuine way. B. Carefully avoid any sign of disapproval or shock. C. Confront the clients apparent effort to shock her. D. Focus during the inter- view on the condition of the clients apartment. 3. Question ID #47141: What is the primary focus of interventions made by child protective service agencies? Select one: A. Identifying maltreat- ing families in order to protect children. B. Making sure abusive families under pressure have access to support- ive services. C. Rehabilitating abusive parents. D. Protecting children from maltreatment. C is correct: The foremost goal of child protective services (CPS) is the protection of abused and neglected children, as "D" says. The ques- tion, however, is about interventions made by CPS: Interventions for child abuse and neglect are primarily therapeutic, rather than punitive, and their primary goals are to treat and rehabilitate the parents and, where possible, keep families intact.Answer B: This is too narrow: These agencies otter supportive services to families (e.g., respite care, day care), but they also provide concrete services (e.g., housing, economic assistance) and therapy, and they don't emphasize any one service over the others. Instead, they meet the specific needs of each family. The correct answer is: Rehabilitating abusive parents. 4. Question ID #47033: A social worker meets with a 35-year-old client who has a history of heavy alcohol use and is experiencing symptoms of moderate depression. B is correct: When a client who is known to be a heavy alcohol user has prominent symptoms of depression, it can be important to get a psychiatric history. On the other hand, heavy or frequent alcohol use can exacerbate other psychological problems, and these problems often diminish during recovery. Therefore, many experts recommend that an evaluation of independent mental disorders should occur after the client has been ott of all substances for at least one month. This client The client is currently us- is described as having "symptoms of moderate depression." When a ing alcohol on a daily basis to the extent that person with alcohol use disorder has non-severe co-occurring psychi- atric symptoms, it's common to have them participate in treatments for he is intoxicated on most their addiction first and then treatments for the psychiatric disorder. days. What is the BEST You might have been able to determine that it would be best to treat way for the social worker the alcohol use first even if you didn't know this - i.e., the client's heavy to approach treatment in drinking may be endangering his physical health and safety and his this case? Select one: A. Deal with the depres- sion before addressing the alcohol use. B. Deal with the alco- hol use before address- ing the depression. C. Treat both disorders now. symptoms of "moderate" depression may be related to his alcohol use and may remit partially or completely after he stops drinking.Answer A: This would be the recommended approach if the client had a severe co-occurring psychiatric disorder, rather than moderate depression. That is, when a client with alcohol use disorder has a severe co-occur- ring psychiatric disorder (e.g., a psychotic disorder, an episode of major depression), then you should treat the latter disorder first - i.e., you should stabilize the client before beginning addiction treatment.Answer C: Parallel treatments, in which the addiction and co-occurring psychi- atric disorder are treated simultaneously, are more commonly provided D. Deal with the emotion- when the client has more serious psychiatric symptoms than this client al issues underlying the disorders. has - i.e., when a client has psychiatric symptoms that would make it diflcult for him to participate ettectively in treatment for his addiction (e.g., severe anxiety).Answer D: The emotional issues underlying the alcoholism or depression are not a priority because there may currently exist danger to the client's health or safety as the result of his heavy alcohol use.