SOWK 500-Level Test Prep – Previous Questions
Making personal decisions on behalf of clients in order to ensure that their needs are met -
correct answer ✔✔Social workers demonstrate ethical and professional behavior through all of
the following ways EXCEPT:
oppression - correct answer ✔✔The intentional or unintentional act or process of placing
restrictions on an individual, group, or institution is known as:
Human Relationships - correct answer ✔✔Joseph is a social worker who has worked at the VA
hospital in the substance abuse program for over 30 years. His clients and colleagues speak very
highly of him. One day of his clients pulls him to the side and is very distraught over learning
that his 8 year old granddaughter who he and his wife have custody of has been molested. He
tells Joseph that he is the only therapists he trusts and that he needs Joseph to see her. Joseph
tells him that he would be happy to make some phone calls and assist Charlie in finding
someone who specializes in children. Charlies becomes very upset and states that he cannot
believe that Joseph is abandoning his granddaughter. Joseph explains that he does not see
children and cannot see his granddaughter as a patient at the VA. He gives Charlies several
agencies to contact and even offers to sit with Charlie while he calls. This best demonstrates
adherence to which social work value?
It requires that you learn to question theories and assumptions about people's behaviors and
actions - correct answer ✔✔Critical thinking in social work is essential because of the following:
Consider his own experiences and seek to eliminate their influence on his perception of the
grandmother. - correct answer ✔✔Taylor had a number of negative interactions as a child with
his grandmother. She was violent and verbally abusive. He is assigned to work with a family,
who is caring for their elderly grandmother. Taylor immediately does not care for the
grandmother. Taylor should:
resilience - correct answer ✔✔The ability of some people to fare well in the face of risk factors
is referred to as
, timing of lives - correct answer ✔✔A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests
that particular roles and behaviors are associated with particular age groups based on biological
age, psychological age, and spiritual age is:
Religiosity, view of god/God, faith - correct answer ✔✔When doing a bio-psycho-social-spiritual
assessment, the spiritual section would include which of the following information:
See if there ae mobile therapists from other agencies that would be willing to come to their
home. - correct answer ✔✔A social worker seeks to find family counseling for a family with no
personal means of transportation. It becomes apparent during her search that the closest
agency to the shelter is a faith-based counseling agency. The social worker has referred clients
of all faiths to this agency in the past and has never received a client complaint before.
However, the father of this particular family has made it clear that he and his family are atheists.
The best course of action for the social worker is to:
linked or interdependent lives - correct answer ✔✔A major theme of the life course perspective
which suggests that human lives are interdependent, and the family is the primary arena for
experiencing and interpreting wider historical, cultural, and social phenomena is:
Faith can be integrated into one's practice work. It is important to consider the client's
environment. How the client progressed through developmental stages should be considered.
(All of the above) - correct answer ✔✔While working with a client:
It is NOT Advocacy
Maybe Service, Social Justice or Dignity and Worth of the individual - correct answer
✔✔Christine is a social worker in the local school system. In the past 2 years, she has noticed an
influx of refugee children from Chile, many of which did not speak English. On numerous
occasions, children have come to her office stating that they were not allowed to get lunch.
When Christine spoke with the cafeteria supervised, she was informed that many of the
children had paperwork that was incomplete or incorrectly filled out and they would just have
to go hungry until their parents "figured it out...". Christine could not believe how her school
Making personal decisions on behalf of clients in order to ensure that their needs are met -
correct answer ✔✔Social workers demonstrate ethical and professional behavior through all of
the following ways EXCEPT:
oppression - correct answer ✔✔The intentional or unintentional act or process of placing
restrictions on an individual, group, or institution is known as:
Human Relationships - correct answer ✔✔Joseph is a social worker who has worked at the VA
hospital in the substance abuse program for over 30 years. His clients and colleagues speak very
highly of him. One day of his clients pulls him to the side and is very distraught over learning
that his 8 year old granddaughter who he and his wife have custody of has been molested. He
tells Joseph that he is the only therapists he trusts and that he needs Joseph to see her. Joseph
tells him that he would be happy to make some phone calls and assist Charlie in finding
someone who specializes in children. Charlies becomes very upset and states that he cannot
believe that Joseph is abandoning his granddaughter. Joseph explains that he does not see
children and cannot see his granddaughter as a patient at the VA. He gives Charlies several
agencies to contact and even offers to sit with Charlie while he calls. This best demonstrates
adherence to which social work value?
It requires that you learn to question theories and assumptions about people's behaviors and
actions - correct answer ✔✔Critical thinking in social work is essential because of the following:
Consider his own experiences and seek to eliminate their influence on his perception of the
grandmother. - correct answer ✔✔Taylor had a number of negative interactions as a child with
his grandmother. She was violent and verbally abusive. He is assigned to work with a family,
who is caring for their elderly grandmother. Taylor immediately does not care for the
grandmother. Taylor should:
resilience - correct answer ✔✔The ability of some people to fare well in the face of risk factors
is referred to as
, timing of lives - correct answer ✔✔A major theme of the life course perspective which suggests
that particular roles and behaviors are associated with particular age groups based on biological
age, psychological age, and spiritual age is:
Religiosity, view of god/God, faith - correct answer ✔✔When doing a bio-psycho-social-spiritual
assessment, the spiritual section would include which of the following information:
See if there ae mobile therapists from other agencies that would be willing to come to their
home. - correct answer ✔✔A social worker seeks to find family counseling for a family with no
personal means of transportation. It becomes apparent during her search that the closest
agency to the shelter is a faith-based counseling agency. The social worker has referred clients
of all faiths to this agency in the past and has never received a client complaint before.
However, the father of this particular family has made it clear that he and his family are atheists.
The best course of action for the social worker is to:
linked or interdependent lives - correct answer ✔✔A major theme of the life course perspective
which suggests that human lives are interdependent, and the family is the primary arena for
experiencing and interpreting wider historical, cultural, and social phenomena is:
Faith can be integrated into one's practice work. It is important to consider the client's
environment. How the client progressed through developmental stages should be considered.
(All of the above) - correct answer ✔✔While working with a client:
It is NOT Advocacy
Maybe Service, Social Justice or Dignity and Worth of the individual - correct answer
✔✔Christine is a social worker in the local school system. In the past 2 years, she has noticed an
influx of refugee children from Chile, many of which did not speak English. On numerous
occasions, children have come to her office stating that they were not allowed to get lunch.
When Christine spoke with the cafeteria supervised, she was informed that many of the
children had paperwork that was incomplete or incorrectly filled out and they would just have
to go hungry until their parents "figured it out...". Christine could not believe how her school
